Example sentences of "[vb past] for three " in BNC.
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| 1 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 2 | Recalled New York Jets quarterback Ken O'Brien passed for three first-half touchdowns in a 26–14 defeat of Miami Dolphins . |
| 3 | He was educated at Clifton College , Bristol , and in 1883 became for three years articled clerk to a London solicitor . |
| 4 | This time Marko believed the mysterious child ; he went to the king and asked for three hundred barrels of wine and three hundred barrels of brandy , and for oxen to drag them up the mountain and men to dam up the lake . |
| 5 | He asked for three other similar offences to be taken into consideration . |
| 6 | His was not the look of a man who vacationed for three and a half months in a place where bird-watching was high on the entertainment list . |
| 7 | It burned for three days . |
| 8 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 9 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 10 | The tribe danced for three days in the hope that the Great Spirits would send them rain . |
| 11 | We dated for three months . |
| 12 | It rained for three days . |
| 13 | MIKE TOMCZAK , the Chicago Bears quarterback , threw for three touchdowns and Neal Anderson rushed for another as Chicago staved off a fourth-quarter rally by the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night to win 27-13 . |
| 14 | TROY AIKMAN threw for three touchdowns as the Dallas Cowboys wrapped up the NFC East title with a 41-17 NFL rout of the Atlanta Falcons . |
| 15 | Reid watched the mess from his hidey-hole in the roof-space where he hid for three days . |
| 16 | We hid for three days and nights with nothing to eat . |
| 17 | And er he roa er he ranted for three hours too . |
| 18 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
| 19 | There were no ski-lifts so those who wanted higher slopes than the nurseries rose early and carrying all their gear — wire for repairs , spare sealskin gloves , sweaters and food — in a rucksack , climbed for three or four hours and then skied down , reaching the village by twilight , just in time to change for après-ski activities . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 21 | His connection with tramways was first established with the Blackburn and Over Darwen steam tramway , where he served for three years . |
| 22 | Though invalided out of the infantry in 1915 with tuberculosis , Pearson volunteered the following year for the Army Service Corps , and was commissioned and served for three years in Mesopotamia and Persia . |
| 23 | He served for three years , originally as chairman , and it is as the first chairman of the future Labour party that he achieved his principal prominence in labour history . |
| 24 | He then served for three years as Secretary General of the Islamic Conference Organization . |
| 25 | Mike said : ‘ She breathed for three minutes , giving us hope she would one day be able to breathe for herself . |
| 26 | Mike said : ‘ She breathed for three minutes , giving us hope she would one day be able to breathe for herself . |
| 27 | It catered for three Wehrmacht officers , the Danish research engineer and his chief assistant , and a young SS officer who was the Dane 's personal security escort . |
| 28 | So the CLPD pressed for three major reforms . |
| 29 | When Admiralty Lord , Sir Robert Rich , stood for Dunwich in 1695 , he arranged for three " men-of-war " to anchor off the small Suffolk port during the time of the election , to hold out the threat of the press-gang to any who voted against the Whig candidates . |
| 30 | With Richard Hill warned for three beefy challenges on the impressive Matt Dawson and Mark Linnett fortunate that a few loose uses of fist and foot went unseen , the atmosphere was anything but festive . |