Example sentences of "of [pron] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had five sons and five daughters , of whom three sons and four daughters survived infancy . |
| 2 | In July 1795 he married Sarah , the daughter of his first tutor , the Revd George Walker ; they had three sons and seven daughters , of whom three children died young . |
| 3 | The congers were ugly-looking brutes , some of them three feet or more in length ; Pierre warned me they could bite through a sea-boot . |
| 4 | One of them three months ago for a violent attack . |
| 5 | He 's the father of my three girls |
| 6 | This brings us to the second of my three questions . |
| 7 | It turns out that fragments of each of my three files are dotted around , interleaved with each other and with fragments of old , dead files that I erased long ago and had forgotten . |
| 8 | A legacy which earmarks , not a particular thing , but a particular fund or collection out of which it is to come ( e.g. ‘ one of my three violins ' ) is called demonstrative . |
| 9 | I have supper with Eileen and any of my three daughters who are around . |
| 10 | Their sentence does n't bring the father of my three daughters back . |
| 11 | It is the generally accepted method of succession in our family , but , ’ the corpse sighed , or at least a sigh came from the air a few feet above it , ‘ it soon became obvious that none of my three children is sufficiently powerful to wrest the lordship of the Wyrmberg from the other two . |
| 12 | For each subject a stool form score was calculated by simple addition of their three gradings , giving a range from 3 ( consistently constipated ) to 18 ( consistently loose ) . |
| 13 | Germany , the defending world champions , kick off the tournament in Chicago and will play two of their three first-round matches there . |
| 14 | This year 's Chairman was Mrs Rupert Frank , who had the support of her husband , and two of their three sons Frederick and Alexander Frank at the ball , which went with a swing from the start . |
| 15 | After dinner , guests drifted up the steep basement stairs to the Bechstein in the drawing room to sing : at the last party I was at , Lennox Berkeley 's contemporaries , many in their eighties , and friends of their three sons , sang tunes like ‘ A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square ’ and ‘ Tea for Two ’ . |
| 16 | Of their three sons , the eldest , Sir Richard , became a Baptist and married the sister of Sir Walter Erle [ q.v. ] , while the second , William [ q.v. ] , achieved celebrity as a radical politician . |
| 17 | None of their three sons Roy , Robert and Clive have decided to carry on the family tradition . |
| 18 | Switzerland have dropped only one point in four games while Italy have drawn two of their three matches and Portugal have three points from two games . |
| 19 | With players like Stephen Martin , Kenny Morris , Billy McConnell , Alan Roper , Geoff Clarke , Stephen Smyrl and Martin Deery all sidelined for various reasons , it seemed that Holywood would n't seriously test the visitors in the first of their three weekend games against leading Ulster opposition . |
| 20 | Sky TV newsreaders Chris Mann and Stephanie Callister chose Antigua 's Blue Waters Hotel for the second leg of their three week Caribbean honeymoon . |
| 21 | Publishers Philip Wilson have rationalised the books published under each of their three imprints — Zwemmer , Scala and Sotheby 's Publications — for their spring list . |
| 22 | He made his way to the old barn on the corner of their three acres . |
| 23 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 24 | LONDON Monarchs , who have lost two of their three World League games , must beat Birmingham Fire , of Alabama , who have won twice , at Wembley tonight to maintain their challenge for a play-off place . |
| 25 | This followed an attack by 200 guerrillas on a television station owned by Ricardo Belmont Cassinelli , the leading candidate for mayor of Lima , in the course of which three guerrillas were killed by police and about 20 people were wounded and 150 arrested . |
| 26 | Social selection , of which three types are distinguished , is a major process responsible for the evolution of behaviour . |
| 27 | In particular , there have been several complaints of heavy-handed policing of demonstrations , of which three examples may be given here . |
| 28 | The Supplement of 1933 is now being superseded by the much more extensive four-volume Supplement , of which three volumes have appeared ( I ( A-G ) : 1972 ; II ( H-N ) : 1976 ; III ( O-Scz ) : 1982 ) , and the last ( Se-Z ) is due in 1985 . |
| 29 | Necessity was the mother of invention for Dixon when refereeing interpretation compelled a switch from ruck to maul during Scotland 's 1988 tour to Zimbabwe — of which three survivors played on Saturday : Paul Burnell , Cronin and Derek Turnbull . |
| 30 | Continuing low demand for new cars has led Ford to cut production at all of its three UK assembly plants . |