Example sentences of "his three [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Swire Sugden and his three chins were waiting for me .
2 Since reading his three part series in Jan , Feb and March , 1990 on Nature Aquatics , I now have two lovely tanks .
3 Griffiths trains just three horses at Nantgaredig , Carmarthen , and Norton 's Coin is easily the best of them , supplying the permit holder with all his three wins last season .
4 It is interesting to note that his three criteria for distinguishing reality from illusion can be found also in the works of those philosophers , such as Descartes and Locke , whose view he rejects .
5 His three criteria for identifying the modifications as chemical erosion as opposed to physical abrasion were that the damage was localized and not evenly spread over the whole surface of the bones , there was greater erosion of the tips of the teeth with some teeth not damaged at all , and discoloration spread into the re-entrant angles of the vole teeth .
6 TWISTED : The wreckage of the Escort in which Leslie and his three friends died .
7 Trevor West and his three friends took nine trout for 19lb 8ozs , best fish 3lb 8ozs , and Messers Teague and Hughes from Londonderry had four for 8lbs on the dap and wetfly .
8 Shortly after he was arrested by the Stevens team , Brian Nelson made lengthy statements in the Prison outlining his three year involvement with the UDA as its chief intelligence collator and his role as a top Army agent .
9 A BELFAST man was trying to rescue his three year old niece when he was blasted by UVF gunmen , Belfast Crown Court has heard .
10 Angus Dougal is appealing against his three year sentence for attempted rape .
11 It is worth bearing in mind , though , that his three oceans are in fact all part of one , and that their individual behaviours are all part of the overall behaviour of the planet 's hydrosphere , where all winds and currents , ambient temperatures and barometric pressures — and , just possibly , all human behaviour too — are part of one hugely complicated , ever-mobile , mathematically-insufferable and only marginally predictable global machine .
12 Two years previously he had wanted to hit back at fate for the death of his three cousins ; now he was so joyful that he felt he must compensate in this sacrificial way .
13 In particular , Halliday does not accept that his three functions form a hierarchy . )
14 There was Ron ‘ Rescue Dog ’ Hitchens , with his three Rottweilers , one of which had recently eaten a Scotch terrier .
15 ledgers that are now on the archives could be l placed down there and fascinated me because he could add a column of pounds , shillings and pence , he 'd take his three fingers at the bottom of the long ledger column , and as fast practically like a computer , would add to the top and then put it in pencil .
16 Once an old man lived in the forest with his three grandsons , Martin , Mihal , and Yanek .
17 And I sha n't come back until I remember what the great Daybog said , " This news made the old man very sad , for he loved Yanek the best of his three grandsons .
18 As on Tiree , we have a banking monopoly on Barra So Donald John and his three members of staff have to tread that tricky path between fair play and the demands of commercialism .
19 In developing his argument Heald ( 1983 ) incorporates his three classifications of accountability with the nine types of accountability distinguished by Smith ( 1980 ) .
20 His three comrades were bringing him down .
21 So cardinal a quality is this , so clear a mark of a man being filled with the Spirit of Christ , that in the middle of his three chapters on spiritual gifts ( 1 Cor. 12–14 ) , Paul sets the crowning gift of love .
22 Etzioni links his three concepts of power to three forms of involvement of participants in organizations , ranged along a continuum from alienation to commitment .
23 He coached abroad on a number of occasions , always refusing any kind of payment , even for his expenses , and his three visits to Harvard between 1896 and 1898 were rewarded by an honorary degree .
24 His three half-brothers united against him and subsequently the kingdom was divided equally .
25 A year later he published his three letters on sunspots .
26 Child Health and the State ( 1953 ) was based on his three Newsholme lectures ( 1953 ) .
27 He lived in a converted cowshed and was exercised by his owner , who raced his three horses simply for the fun of it .
28 Kepler 's theory I take to be his three laws of planetary motion .
29 After a painstaking analysis of the data , Kepler arrived at his three laws of planetary motion , that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun , that a line joining a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times , and that the square of the period of a planet is proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the sun .
30 Erm have you heard of a fellow called Newton and his three laws ?
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