Example sentences of "three [noun] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's got three ducks and a drake apparently . |
| 2 | The mansion was , he said , ‘ elegantly & completely furnished-with 9 lodging rooms , three parlours & a Hall — in a most beautiful & romantic situation by the sea side ’ . |
| 3 | Her other current projects include featured soloist on Manfred Mann 's latest album Plains Music , composing a new work for three saxophones and a chamber orchestra and concerts and workshops in Britain and abroad . |
| 4 | His chief imperiall crowne upon his head , very precious ; his staff imperiall in his right hand , or an unicornes horne of three foot and a halfe in length , beset with rich stones . |
| 5 | At Bergheim — three houses and a gas station — we turned on to one of those narrow tracks that do n't even get a farm road numeral . |
| 6 | The three million unemployed may consider the acquisitive Eubank 's £4 million earnings in his 33 unbeaten fights and his ownership of three houses and a block of flats in Brighton equally obscene . |
| 7 | ‘ Ards have been out of the picture since then but I 've enjoyed a good Irish Cup record at my other clubs , getting to the final three times as a player and twice as Larne 's manager . |
| 8 | I now noted that the latter had on each hand only three fingers and a thumb , and only four toes on each foot , in the manner of the monkeys we had come across in another existence . |
| 9 | Walton married , in 1943 , Helen Robson ; they had three sons and a daughter . |
| 10 | He married , in 1958 , Helen , daughter of Lt-Col R P T ffrench ; they had three sons and a daughter . |
| 11 | , Sir William Alexander ( 1854–1914 ) , founder of the Boys ' Brigade , was born 27 October 1854 at Pennyland House , near Thurso , Caithness , the eldest in the family of three sons and a daughter of David Smith of Pennyland , a director of the Labuan Coal Company in China , and his wife Harriet , daughter of Alexander Fraser , merchant , of Glasgow . |
| 12 | Although three sons and a daughter survived infancy , only his daughter , Sarah , and second son , John , survived him , the latter to pursue a successful career in the City , centred on the Levant trade . |
| 13 | He married 17 November 1631 his cousin Mary Darley , daughter of Sir Richard Darley JP , of Buttercrambe , Yorkshire ( died c .1654 ) , having three sons and a daughter . |
| 14 | He married for a second time about 1660 Sarah Winnock , a widow with three sons and a daughter . |
| 15 | , Thomas Gwynn ( 1871–1949 ) , poet , scholar , and writer , was born at Gwyndy Uchaf farm , Betws-yn-Rhos , Denbighshire , 10 October 1871 , the eldest in the family of three sons and a daughter of Isaac Jones , farmer , and his wife Jane Roberts . |
| 16 | He left three sons and a daughter . |
| 17 | you know like Freddy Kruger three fingers that looked like blades and every night she would go to erm the fields and erm she would go into sheep fields and cow fields and she would kill three sheep and a cow every night except for a Sunday night ! |
| 18 | Ludo and I hold our clubs ; they hold three chains and a knife . |
| 19 | In a separate incident in Glengormley , houses were evacuated for over three hours after a suspect car was abandoned at Willowtree Park shortly after 1am yesterday . |
| 20 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 21 | Yesterday , with two interest rates announced in three hours and a devaluation on the way , there was only one message for sterling — sell , sell , sell . |
| 22 | The journey from Montrose to Laurencekirk , ten and a half miles , takes three hours and a quarter on foot , on the undulating and awkward A937 . |
| 23 | Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting . |
| 24 | Similarly , the approach angle is a lot shallower than for other jets — about two degrees , judged by the PAPIs showing three reds and a pink . |
| 25 | This was no soccer match won by three goals nor a race won by three seconds . |
| 26 | There were huge quantities of them , and I ended up filling three vases and a couple of Stuart 's beer-mugs . |
| 27 | He was a small farmer , with three acres and a stone house , plastered walls within . |
| 28 | Three cars and a lorry were involved — The road was closed for several hours and diversions put into operation . |
| 29 | There were three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs . |
| 30 | The first had three bedrooms and a gym — a must for Geoffrey — on a 21ft wide , 107ft deep plot in Hampstead . |