Example sentences of "[pron] three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the usual extra food for Christmas and we allowed ourselves three slices of bread each for breakfast instead of two . |
| 2 | Erm , I am tentatively erm provisionally very hopeful , but I am fearful of a number of things , I three observations in respect , observations in respect of them . |
| 3 | Cor bloody hell she give I three questions the other day . |
| 4 | So I 'm just wondering whether this is a different variety and because it was two years ago , I three years ago now I think . |
| 5 | It is this that I had in mind in proposing at the outset my three notions and calling one of them , the last , language as replay . |
| 6 | I showed them my three houses , my cornfields and my goats , and all my tools . |
| 7 | This brings us to the second of my three questions . |
| 8 | He roared in French at my three assailants , brandishing a huge club . |
| 9 | I was with my three mates and they stood behind me and said , " I do n't see why you should be ashamed . " |
| 10 | My three boys are terrified to sleep in their own beds . |
| 11 | However , though I can not speak for others , my three boys found it perfectly normal and natural . |
| 12 | My three trunks were upended in the corner ready for Curtis to send on the train . |
| 13 | He 's the father of my three girls |
| 14 | One of his legs was shattered by shrapnel and lying there in the burning sun he prayed to God , ‘ Please God , accept my three wishes — Please send down St. David — you know , we in Wales have tremendous faith in St. David ’ . ’ |
| 15 | my three wishes sucked up a chimney of flame . |
| 16 | Just a little drunk on my three pints , I cycled back to the island whistling . |
| 17 | ‘ My three associates and myself are willing to put big money into the club to get the best players for the team . |
| 18 | I am worried to death , what with my three sons being away in the Army . |
| 19 | I have supper with Eileen and any of my three daughters who are around . |
| 20 | My three daughters sat there waiting for me . |
| 21 | Their sentence does n't bring the father of my three daughters back . |
| 22 | Stopping for lunch near Messkirch , en route for Ulm , I discovered that my three days ' neglect of the groceries in the car boot , together with the intense heat , had reduced some of them to a suppurating , soggy mess . |
| 23 | Well , many thanks to my three guests discussing sexual harassment in Oxford . |
| 24 | Well many thanks to my three guests . |
| 25 | I 'm sorry that our time is up , but many thanks to my three guests today ; to Phyllis Starkey , the leader of the Labour Group on Oxford City Council ; to Michael Wright , from the Liberal Democrat benches ; and from Queenie Warley from the Conservatives . |
| 26 | If I am not completely satisfied , I will return my three books within 10 days , my membership will be cancelled and I will owe nothing . |
| 27 | Here I started my three months training along with 43 other expectant trainees . |
| 28 | My three months as a volunteer |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Selwyn was the smallest of the colleges of the University , also its students lived in , and during my three years the number of students never exceeded 150 . |