Example sentences of "it [verb] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps for this reason the topmost stone supposedly retains its own curious powers : it is said that when a cock crows nearby , it turns three times . |
| 2 | Right , start that le no now we have we 're gon na play with this runway it goes three , two |
| 3 | It involves three elements : a source of the objects , the screen with its slits and a second screen which incorporates some means of detecting the objects which hit the different parts of it . |
| 4 | It involves three opposed tendencies which have evolved an uneasy symbiosis . |
| 5 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
| 6 | The Feminine Mystique , which dared to put the silent question , did not see the light of day until 1963 , when it sold three million copies , but it was already being written and its audience was waiting . |
| 7 | Last May it sold three of its four Ford dealerships to a management team for £6.7m and changed its name from Godfrey Davis ( Holdings ) . |
| 8 | The orange tree is particularly interesting for it produces three different-smelling essences with differing therapeutic properties : neroli ( blossom ) , petit-grain ( leaves ) and orange ( rind ) . |
| 9 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 10 | As initially developed in the DOE ( Likierman , 1982 ; Whitbread , 1987 ) and later in the MOD ( Omand , 1983 ) it involved three main stages : |
| 11 | It incorporates three influences : Roman , Byzantine and Romanesque . |
| 12 | It created three different kinds of school with ‘ parity of esteem ’ and children were allocated according to the result of the 11-plus examination . |
| 13 | It moved three quarters of a mile downwind where it managed to hold station under its own power . |
| 14 | It exhibits three main facets : a ) Centralised lozenge designs with square central panels . |
| 15 | It covers three hundred and forty square kilometres . |
| 16 | It has three Vermeers ( only 30 exist ) , notably Head of a Girl and View of Delft ( to Proust , the most beautiful painting in the world ) , a dozen jolly Steens , full of lasciviousness and coded morality , a dozen or more great Rembrandts , and Paulus Potter 's huge Young Bull . |
| 17 | It has three large south-facing windows , copious bookshelves and three large desks . |
| 18 | It has three stages : |
| 19 | It has three roads and is served by two overhead electric cranes . |
| 20 | The 10 per cent guar loaf has 25 per cent less digestible carbohydrate , and hence 25 per cent fewer calories , than white bread , yet it has three times more fibre . |
| 21 | It has three modes of operation controlled by its pins 1 and 19 . |
| 22 | It has three bells cast by a London foundry in 1865 . |
| 23 | It has three simultaneous functions : compression , peak limiting and HUSH noise reduction . |
| 24 | The NPP is building television in its own states , while it has three state radios and three daily newspapers . |
| 25 | Unlike most ovens , it has three shelves instead of the usual two . |
| 26 | It has three pretty bedrooms , decorated in well-chosen fabrics , and furnished with antiques and pine . |
| 27 | Altogether it has three hundred buildings listed as being of architectural and historical interest . |
| 28 | A grand Victorian building , it has three acres of garden with a pond and hard tennis court . |
| 29 | GTE Corp signed a definitive agreement with a subsidiary of Lynch Corp for the sale of its telephone service area in Kansas on undisclosed terms : GTE put 2,300 access lines in Kansas up for sale in January , where it has three employees serving 13 exchanges in the state ; after the purchase , Lynch will have 10,750 access lines in five states . |
| 30 | In fact it has three of the blighters , two of which are occupied by a VL-bus ET4000 Super VGA card and a cached IDE host adaptor , the first I 've seen . |