Example sentences of "they had [num] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Well they had one man in the hold and they used to have a fork lift in the hold , in Holland , with one man and he could do that job and they sent one man ashore , well over here we had four men in the hold and two men ashore .
2 Rigby reckoned that the referee , who had the casting vote , was sure to side with Harlequins given that they had six players in the England side for the following week .
3 Leeds fans started to look a bit more worried … they had 4–5 shots from the edge of the area … fortunately they are so crap not one crossed the line inside the penalty area !
4 She even had , by the classical period , Long Walls running down to Lechaion harbour , like those which joined Athens to Piraeus ; and she had a decent-sized navy : the Corinthians lent twenty ships to Athens before the Persian Wars and contributed forty in the Persian Wars themselves , and they had ninety ships at the battle of Sybota ( p. 89 ) .
5 At their height they had 1,300 people on the station , servicing hawks , Buccaneers and Jaguars .
6 They had three players in the Switzerland team against Scotland the other night and they also have a Brazilian international , ’ said Walker .
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