Example sentences of "we had three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband was Mustafa Zamzam and we had three orchards — two with olives and one with citrus . |
| 2 | We had three requests to find lost rings at the shop in one day recently . |
| 3 | We had three managers in one day , which must be some sort of record . |
| 4 | We had three pots of jam in the fridge and they were all empty ! |
| 5 | ‘ We could only find one orginal frame , which we used for Summer , so we had three replicas hand carved for Spring , Autumn and Winter . ’ |
| 6 | We had three calls last week not it 's , it 's about a month since , wanting to know about the washing machine and we said it 's sold sold er a couple of weeks ago . |
| 7 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 8 | We had three coaches travelling , sometimes four . |
| 9 | So he says to me , see we had three wardrobes in our bedroom |
| 10 | ‘ Unfortunately , the referee completely lost it and we had three players sent off . ’ |
| 11 | In the beginning we had three announcers — Sid Boyling , whose rich round voice went down well with our listeners , Louis Bourgeois , a gentle and studious young man with noticeable literary talent , and Bob MacLean , the very steady and well-spoken son of a senior CPR official . |
| 12 | But in Durham we had three rooms and a toilet outside and a little garden where you could sit in the summer . |
| 13 | Although we had three rooms for the sessions , conditions were very cramped and there were last minute hitches with pupils discovering their recorders would n't work or the plug points were too far from the place allocated for the interviews . |
| 14 | I think we had twelve or thirteen cars , so that was twelve shifts we could cover , we had three gates to cover cover , so and forty men , and just shared them out and that was all computerized , printed out , everyone had a copy , and on the whole it worked very very well . |
| 15 | Were n't very clean and er course Ipswich water 's all nice fresh water , they always filled up with fresh water at Ipswich , the Dutch boats which was the we had three boats there , they used to be the Ipswich , Ipswich Progress and Ipswich Pioneer . |
| 16 | We had three cows . |
| 17 | We had three arrests on the tour , the third was mine . |
| 18 | We had three sessions on this in the Northern Ireland Committee in June last year , when we had a thorough debate . |
| 19 | We had three children in quick succession , and no spare cash . |
| 20 | We had three gigs on the trot , including The Marquee . |