Example sentences of "[prep] three [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er right okay well I 'll tell you what , I think erm people are coming to see me until about two or three or so but erm if you come a bit after three you 'll probably catch me on my own |
| 2 | Just before half past three we fixed bayonets . |
| 3 | It 's just coming up to twenty past three we 'll take fifteen minutes . |
| 4 | Half past three it had been when they 'd arrived at Mr Grady 's , the last name on the list , his fish and chips congealed and inedible . |
| 5 | After half past three it is Irene . |
| 6 | At ten past three he began to feel unhappy . |
| 7 | At half past three he wanted to die , or to kill somebody . |
| 8 | But sleep did n't come and round about half past three he realised it was n't going to come . |
| 9 | Put it on a very low one so when you come back about twenty past two whack it up and by sort of say three o'clock , quarter past three you can sit down and eat your grub dinner . |
| 10 | Phones him up two minutes past three I 'm gon na try and get the three o'clock train ! |
| 11 | Working in groups of three we tackled about ten titrations each in three hours with a break for lunch . |
| 12 | They were fed up with three-door cars , which ruled out one of three they considered at the time — the Vauxhall Nova , although this is now available in five-door . |
| 13 | Four lots of three I have n't got time to write that down that was very quick . |
| 14 | At the age of three he received a blow on the head which left him partially deaf for the rest of his life . |
| 15 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 16 | Cos when we shared it out between three it was like if you just stand up and have a look along there . |
| 17 | So share it out between three you get a third . |
| 18 | Twelve shared out between three you get four . |
| 19 | The same happens with two but for three she counts out ‘ 1 , 2 , 3 ’ . |
| 20 | They go into three you see . |
| 21 | You 're gon na have to start with three I need . |
| 22 | on three I pressed it in |
| 23 | About twenty to three it went off . |
| 24 | by saying restrict them to three you get the best three they can think of |
| 25 | At a quarter to three I was in position behind the grime-sprayed glass of a bus shelter on the Banbury Road . |
| 26 | two if I get to three I 'm going to be cross ! |
| 27 | And I come down I thought nearly twenty to three I said well it ai n't stopped I thought it 's late |
| 28 | Ten-thirty to three she 's at The World Turned Inside Out , daring the clientele to muck up her clean floor . |
| 29 | Cos they do n't actually , if you do something like that , say you put plus five , minus five and then sit down and , you 're the one that plus three and minus three you do n't actually lose marks doing something wrong , you can not be penalised for doing it wrong , you can only gain credit for doing something right , because they 'll , give you five marks to doing that bit right and then knock three off for doing something else wrong , they , they would never give you penalty marks , they will only credit for doing things right , but so often it 's quite like down as you want , you ca n't . |
| 30 | We call it minus three I still owe you |