Example sentences of "he took three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the 16th caught him out as he took three putts for his only bogey . |
| 2 | He took three twenty-pound notes out of his wallet . |
| 3 | He took three ships — the Santa Maria , the Nina and the Pinta — and 88 men . |
| 4 | The other poem which Coleridge wrote during his retreat , and the circumstances of its composition , have entered the mythology of English literary history : while staying at the Culbone farmhouse he took three grains of opium to relieve what he variously described as ‘ a dysentery ’ or ‘ a slight indisposition ’ , and in the deep reverie which followed composed two or three hundred lines of poetry ‘ without any sensation of consciousness of effort ’ . |
| 5 | He took three wickets leaving the tourists to declare at 388 for five at tea . |
| 6 | He took three month 's leave and went to our world assembly at Caux . |