Example sentences of "[prep] three [pron] " 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 | After three your afternoon tea , and the mystery movie quiz , all here on Trent F M. |
| 3 | Just before half past three we fixed bayonets . |
| 4 | It 's just coming up to twenty past three we 'll take fifteen minutes . |
| 5 | Oh ooh half past three What time did she go off , half past one ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After half past three it is Irene . |
| 8 | At ten past three he began to feel unhappy . |
| 9 | At half past three he wanted to die , or to kill somebody . |
| 10 | But sleep did n't come and round about half past three he realised it was n't going to come . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Phones him up two minutes past three I 'm gon na try and get the three o'clock train ! |
| 13 | These are just some of the myriad architectural variations on the theme of three which grace this eccentric creation . |
| 14 | This is the third Youth Sunday pack in a series of three which have focused on the notion of evangelisation . |
| 15 | Of the many graduates who attended , NOTTINGHAM GRADUATE presents the stories of three whose studies have had a significant impact on their careers . |
| 16 | Working in groups of three we tackled about ten titrations each in three hours with a break for lunch . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Kier accounts for her free-thinking clothes sense from the fact that from the age of three her mother left her to dress herself . |
| 19 | This consists of three lots of three stitches . |
| 20 | Four lots of three I have n't got time to write that down that was very quick . |
| 21 | At the age of three he received a blow on the head which left him partially deaf for the rest of his life . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Harry Wood , a professional for twenty years with Surrey and along with Abel one of three who went ‘ on strike ’ in 1896 demanding a £20 match fee to play the Australians , left the game a bitter man . |
| 24 | ‘ I go into a hairdresser 's hoping that a new me will emerge , ’ said Barbara Scott , a mother of three who works part-time . |
| 25 | Mr Souness , a father of three who is separated from his wife Danielle , has continued to train daily even though his playing career ended two years ago , running for 20 minutes and spending 40 minutes on exercises . |
| 26 | The teacher joined a group of three who were spontaneously cutting and pasting paper crowns for themselves . |
| 27 | Your correspondent climbed the Mittelegi Ridge with Roger Alton of The Guardian , followed closely by Doug Scott and Sharu Prabhu , with Tibetan refugee , 14-year-old Karma Sondup , plus James Kagambi from Kenya and Tess Borroughs , a Surrey mother of three who has worked full time for Climb for the World since first reading of it in this magazine last year . |
| 28 | He is a " guardian " , one of three who in The Cocktail Party adopt a benign role in curing or assuaging human misery . |
| 29 | He successfully negotiated the repeal of a clause in the statute of 4 & 5 Philip and Mary , c.5 , which seriously prejudiced west-country clothiers ' interests ( 43 Eliz. , c.10 ) , and was one of three who persuaded the French to repeal , in February 1606 , a decree prohibiting the import of English tentered cloth . |
| 30 | so you 're gon na get one shared out between three which is ? |