Example sentences of "i had [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Basing my decisions on body shape and colouration I thought I had four males and three females . |
2 | and you 'll you know it does it itself you just , you , with the computer you just say well I had four pounds and I spent a pound on that and two pound on this thirty pence on that and it goes pow does it by magic . |
3 | I had four cameras lying around me on the seabed , all set at different distances . ’ |
4 | I was walking across from suddenly being squashed under one and I had four guys in the car and they were all giving me defence . |
5 | Today I had four baths to fill in time and I invented you . |
6 | and mum had two glass fulls , but she did n't drink hers so I had four glass fulls . |
7 | I had four attacks altogether , the most recent only a few weeks ago after I had watched Everton beat us 3-0 at Old Trafford . |
8 | ‘ When we played Everton I had four people working with me , ’ recalls Biggins , ‘ but now I 'm working on my own for the VAT man . |
9 | I had four children now — Charlotte , Branwell , Emily and Anne . |
10 | ‘ I was running a film company , a charity , modelling and doing the BBC Good Sport I had four careers going . |
11 | ‘ I had four solos throughout the set , which is quite generous really . |
12 | I had four months on permanent duty here . |
13 | He said : ‘ I play basketball twice a week and I had four days ’ notice that I was to get my chance , so I had four days ' practice . |
14 | He said : ‘ I play basketball twice a week and I had four days ’ notice that I was to get my chance , so I had four days ' practice . |
15 | I had five sittings , an hour at a time . |
16 | ‘ I had five lines of dialogue , ’ he reflects . |
17 | At last I had five pounds — but when my father and I went to buy them we were told that they cost fifteen pounds , a considerable sum of money to an eight-year-old , and way beyond my means . |
18 | Then I had a baby every year after that until I had five girls and three boys . |
19 | And I had five sons , a disabled father , according to the media , and er , I got on with it . |
20 | Before leaving the village I consulted a chart outside the coastguard station , which confirmed that I had five hours before high tide ; this would give me time to get to the end of Worm 's Head and safely back onto the cliffs without danger of being stranded . |
21 | In 1974 I was at the National Theatre doing Shakespeare with Sir John Gielgud and whenever there was a play it was in repertory form , so another play came on and I had five days off , so I 'd fly to Toronto , have a three day ‘ loon ’ in Canada and then come back . |
22 | He also found two more lumps in my groin and immediately booked me into the Princess Grace Hospital for the biopsy I had five days ago . |
23 | ‘ I had heard much about the Island , but could not have been prepared for the spectacle of some three hundred and eight square miles ’ says Val , ‘ I had five days in which to explore and photograph the unfamiliar panorama which stretched before me . ’ |
24 | The next farm in place and that was dairy cattle , I had five cows to milk then by hand , but only in the morning . |
25 | I had six I had five advertisers go in . |
26 | I had five shots of local anaesthetic , and after about 10 minutes the surgeon pulled out this wriggling black larva and everyone burst into applause , but the photographer said , ‘ Oh , I missed that , can you put it back in so I can take a shot ? ’ |
27 | I had , I had five names here , that would give you sixteen , you 're worth an A but I 'm afraid |
28 | 4 I had x dollars but lost S dollars . |
29 | Enough to say that , after he had recovered from the operation and came home , Nigel and I had forty-eight days together in which he was serene , happy and free from pain , which I regard as beyond price . |
30 | I had 6,000 plants ! |