Example sentences of "had three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of his dicta was that all the forts had three periods . |
| 2 | He had three periods in that office which he held , in all , for over seventeen years between 1885 and 1905 . |
| 3 | He had three syringes administered to him . |
| 4 | The five finalists had three hours to produce their creations for a jury of 12 gastronomic chroniclers ( as French food-writers entitle themselves ) and ‘ mères ’ . |
| 5 | He still had three hours outstanding of a community service order for another offence . |
| 6 | He checked his watch and knew he had three hours to wait . |
| 7 | He had three hours before he need set off . |
| 8 | MCC , following on from New Zealand 's 302 for 9 dec , had three hours remaining when their opening batsmen stepped out . |
| 9 | Gerry , who had three hours to go , was below deck making a cup of tea . |
| 10 | Westminster Press had three dailies and nineteen weeklies in the north and a spread of publications across the south . |
| 11 | Meretz had three components — Mapam , Shinui ( " Centre Party " ) and Ratz ( also known as the Citizens ' Rights Movement ) . |
| 12 | And three great big bins from from the they called them and I had three bins in my shed that I stored the barley in and I put the moisture extractor into them and it blew It had wee in it and it blew all the moisture out . |
| 13 | The house , as I have said , had three stories , each a perfect square bounded by four polished galleries , three rooms leading off each . |
| 14 | For the lay reader , Geoffrey Boumphrey 's Town and country tomorrow ( 1940 ) had three sections : ‘ Things as they are ’ , ‘ Things as they could be ’ and ‘ Things as they should be ’ , and the contrasts were made to speak for themselves . |
| 15 | My family had three houses in the village . |
| 16 | It all came down to the last throw the lady who came second had three houses on Park Lane and Mayfair but I threw an 11 and sailed right past ! ’ |
| 17 | And I had three strokes on each hand for that . |
| 18 | ‘ I had three mothers . |
| 19 | And they had three cargoes of coal in the Summertime , every week . |
| 20 | They had three cargoes of coal . |
| 21 | A rich man who had three loves — women , books , and the satisfaction of having made an unexpectedly canny deal , in that order . |
| 22 | Annette Rennoldson , of Tyne Avenue , Leadgate , Consett , had three girls thought to be the first all-female trio born at Shotley Bridge Hospital . |
| 23 | They are both deeply influenced by the theology of the great St Augustine of Hippo ( 354–430 ) who had described the Trinity in psychological terms : just as the human mind , which was created in God 's image , had three powers — memory , understanding and will — so God 's unity contained Three Persons , which corresponded to these human powers . |
| 24 | In the beginning we had three announcers — Sid Boyling , whose rich round voice went down well with our listeners , Louis Bourgeois , a gentle and studious young man with noticeable literary talent , and Bob MacLean , the very steady and well-spoken son of a senior CPR official . |
| 25 | Patient 's with Barrett 's mucosa had three specimens taken from the area of columnar lined oesophagus and a fourth from the gastric cardia for comparison . |
| 26 | BY 1983 , New Order had three things : a deep desire to break away from the son-of-Joy-Division guitar glaciers with which they 'd become associated , a new-found interest in the electro dance vibe that was filling the UK 's clubs , and a brand new drum machine . |
| 27 | From various other coins we can see that the pediment had three openings or windows and was decorated with four sculptural figures below a central Medusa head at the apex . |
| 28 | Who cared what Anpetuwi meant when she had three tables to clear , four people waving at her , and a growing list of drinks to remember when she got back to the bar ? |
| 29 | The end result was that stonemasons had three sets of images to play with and blend , invariably at their own discretion : images rooted in earlier pagan beliefs , contemporary medieval life and the Bible . |
| 30 | In its prime , it had three sets of stones , powered by an overshot wheel . |