Example sentences of "had three children " in BNC.
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1 | The parents of the dead sisters , Mr Peter Garbutt , 58 , and his wife , Joan , who had three children , were being comforted by relatives and friends yesterday . |
2 | A long-time friend of the family , Mr Ray Whittaker , 62 , a council worker who lives nearby , said : ‘ Peter and Joan only had three children and have nearly lost them all . ’ |
3 | And they had three children . |
4 | But she had three children , yet that did n't really signify anything : cows had calves , horses had foals , pigs had litters . |
5 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
6 | They had three children , Doris who was a bit older than me , Jim a bit younger , and a little chap called Ernest . |
7 | She married a widower , Jasper Brown , who had three children , George , Barbara and Mary . |
8 | I had three children , a home to run … and tunnel vision as far as the Spencers were concerned . |
9 | They met in 1921 , became lovers , had three children , and their relationship survived the vicissitudes of his work , travels , other relationships and the understandable but violent jealousy of his long-suffering wife . |
10 | And for , our children when they grow up cos I had three children nearly every one that had come into the town had little ones so you see we were trying to build a town for our children to benefit which I do n't know whether you think that it 's a town worth living in but I think that we have done very well and it 's a town that is caring for such as the elderly they really do care ! |
11 | So you had three children ? |
12 | After a while I married , and had three children , two sons and a daughter . |
13 | Now you had three children within two and a half years . |
14 | They had three children — twin girls , Lizzie and Nellie , and a son , Willie . |
15 | They had three children , a daughter Elizabeth Mary ( 1782 ) and two sons : John Adam ( 1778 ) and James ( 1786 ) . |
16 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
17 | Together they had three children , all of them would die in the fire . |
18 | Without the information contained in the parish register , one might reasonably suppose that Joseph and Ann had three children , who were each to receive only a shilling unless Ann remarried , upon which occasion they would inherit the entire estate . |
19 | She had three children from her second marriage and immensely enjoyed their upbringing — dovetailing motherhood with a career working from home . |
20 | He had three children of his own . |
21 | The couple , who had three children , David ( 19 ) , Lisa ( 16 ) , and John ( 10 ) , lived at Windermere Avenue , off the Saintfield Road , near Carryduff . |
22 | We had three children in quick succession , and no spare cash . |
23 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
24 | so she 's still needed , I think she bought a three bedroomed house which meant she had two girls two girls and a boy , she had three children . |
25 | all her sister 's energy and thinking her sister should , I mean she had a sister living with her and her sister had her own family with her , er a Mongol son , well I 'm afraid Margaret should n't of taken that attitude because she said ooh everywhere I go now there 's only me , now that 's being selfish , because she had three children and she should n't really of expected all her sisters to keep coming , they were living with her , you know |