Example sentences of "three children " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three children they have . |
| 2 | Three children , aged between four and seven , scream as uniformed East Berlin police drag them and their mother off and push them into a lorry as they stand outside the US embassy in East Berlin , hoping desperately to get inside . |
| 3 | The mother had had three children who were living with her . |
| 4 | Three children died and their mother Sharon Outlaw , 27 , was injured in a fire at their home in Helensburgh , Strathclyde . |
| 5 | He left a widow and three children . |
| 6 | The three children are now attending the local village school . |
| 7 | In one of several examples in recent months of mass killings , the report says , 43 people , including three children , were massacred in the gold-mining town of Segovia in November 1988 . |
| 8 | Mr Ozberk , who has been refused leave for a judicial review , is left with no right of appeal — unless he first returns to Turkey , where his wife and three children live . |
| 9 | A woman and three children got up from the table as I entered the room . |
| 10 | The woman and three children were now laughing and I was pleased about that , as they had looked scared stiff when I entered their house a few moments before . |
| 11 | There the first three children were born — Frank in 1902 , Michael two years later ( 14 November 19o4 ) , and then Bridget , the elder daughter . |
| 12 | His three children have all made their own way in the world , preferring not to join the family firm . |
| 13 | When he came back he sat beside the litter of his meal on the table among the three children not quite knowing what to do with himself . |
| 14 | The three children had gone to bed and Rose was waiting by the fire by the time he was satisfied enough with what he had written to seal the envelope . |
| 15 | Moran rattled the newspaper a few times but by the time he could look around the three children were locked back into their school books . |
| 16 | On the ground floor my interpreter from the Bengali Housing Association led the way into a small , bare flat inhabited by a Bengali widow with three children of six , eight and nine . |
| 17 | He expects Megan to work part-time to pay for groceries and clothes for herself and their three children . |
| 18 | For example , for every three children you help us immunise with your gift , your Covenant will make it possible to immunise one more — and quite possibly save another life . |
| 19 | The three children would have needed three different teacher-trainers . |
| 20 | The woman , who has three children by him , is desperate to have her official designation changed from ‘ coloured ’ to white , so they can marry and become ‘ respectable ’ , and her struggle to live normally becomes impossible when the examining board refuses her request . |
| 21 | He has not seen his wife or their three children since July since he can not afford to travel home to Banchory , near Aberdeen . |
| 22 | Sleep would perhaps make more sense after thirty-six hours straight on duty , much of it spent with a sullen Jamaican who had killed his landlady and her three children in the crowded kitchen of a house behind the Westway . |
| 23 | She is an thirty-nine-year-old actress and model with three children from two marriages , a tall blue-eyed blonde . |
| 24 | I live in Northern Ireland , with my wife and three children , We like it . |
| 25 | Last year three children were killed in farm accidents . |
| 26 | Sue normally drives an estate car but found plenty of room in the Volvo 460 — just as well with all three children home for half-term . |
| 27 | Ministers ' remuneration had improved with the century : in 1851 a Primitive Methodist minister with three children received £71 a year and Baptists generally received less than £80 ; within Congregationalism the divergence was too great to allow for any average figure . |
| 28 | His letters to his daughter Amanda , accompanied by her explanatory editorial notes , reveal him to have been something of a tender tyrant in his dealings with his three children , and much happier in the country watching birds than in London coping with editors and producers . |
| 29 | The parents of the dead sisters , Mr Peter Garbutt , 58 , and his wife , Joan , who had three children , were being comforted by relatives and friends yesterday . |
| 30 | A long-time friend of the family , Mr Ray Whittaker , 62 , a council worker who lives nearby , said : ‘ Peter and Joan only had three children and have nearly lost them all . ’ |