Example sentences of "he had three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had three aces and two kings . |
| 2 | Should this prove to be impossible , he had three aims : to complete in due order the steps necessary for becoming archbishop , to maintain undiminished the possessions and privileges of his church , and to hold a Council for the correction of discipline in the Church . |
| 3 | Shepherd , 34 , from Wakefield , West Yorks , said he had three pints of beer before taking Flash on her walk . |
| 4 | Manners replied that he had three reasons for appointing Scott in preference to the other two prize-winners . |
| 5 | He had three bullet-holes in him . ’ |
| 6 | He had three syringes administered to him . |
| 7 | In politics he had three positions of influence and one achievement . |
| 8 | He had three functions in which he knew that he was at home . |
| 9 | He had three periods in that office which he held , in all , for over seventeen years between 1885 and 1905 . |
| 10 | We had to take him to hospital and he had three stitches in it . |
| 11 | Clifford said he did not know which academic dress to wear as he had three London degrees , and ‘ I ca n't wear them all at once ’ . |
| 12 | He had three feet of shallow water to cross — and there was Araminta floating across the sands . |
| 13 | Sir John Markham was married three times ; first to Anne , daughter of Sir George Neville , by whom he had three sons ; secondly to Margery , daughter of Ralph Longford ; and thirdly around 1521 to Anne , widow of Richard Stanhope of Rampton , by whom he had two further sons and three daughters . |
| 14 | His first wife was Cicely Cresley , by whom he had three sons : Robert , who became Somerset herald in 1597 , Ralph ( also a surveyor ) , and Christopher . |
| 15 | By his first marriage he had three sons ( the youngest of whom died in infancy ) , and by the second one son and four daughters . |
| 16 | By his first wife he had three sons and three daughters . |
| 17 | He had three sons : James , a weaver , who lived in a little cottage without a chimney at Newton ; Jacob , a tailor of Brandwood who died young ; and Thomas , a labourer , who set up home in ‘ a poore pitifull hutt , built up to an old oake ’ at the side of Divlin Lane . |
| 18 | He checked his watch and knew he had three hours to wait . |
| 19 | He had three hours before he need set off . |
| 20 | I interviewed the commander of the Venetian fire service who told me that he had three boats at his dispersal and a fourth at half an hour 's readiness . |
| 21 | He had three days off . |
| 22 | He had three pieces of paper in front of him and was writing a line at a time on each — a different line on different aspects of his recent battle with lung cancer , which , however , he stated was now completely cured . |
| 23 | Olazabal had got out of his sick bed to play , but though he had three birdies , he could manage only 71 because of his mistakes from the tee . |
| 24 | He had three suffragan bishops and three archdeacons . |
| 25 | He had three months to train and equip his force before their first operation in November . |
| 26 | With the next general election not due until May 1960 , he had three years in which to establish himself as Prime Minister , provided he could ride through the political fallout from Suez . |
| 27 | The war had interrupted and postponed many a career , J's amongst them , and he had three years ' university ahead of him before he would be in any position to marry . |
| 28 | ‘ He had three years with John Edwards , but we bought him back for 5,600gns a year last June and he will be with me for the rest of his days . ’ |
| 29 | He had three years in the Civil Service after Oriental Languages at Cambridge . |
| 30 | He had three brothers and four sisters . |