Example sentences of "three [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he was physically threatened in an attempt to get him to sign over the rights to three groups he represents to Sony . |
| 2 | Of all the systems we 've got three garages it 's happened to , radio station |
| 3 | Crompton and Jones carried out detailed investigations of the three institutions they studied and found strong evidence that proletarianization had taken place . |
| 4 | Three times England were in command , and three times they were forced to relinquish their grasp . |
| 5 | Three times they go through the same ritual ( 22:41–23:10 ; 23:13–24 ; 23:27–24–9 ) . |
| 6 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 7 | Three times they lowered themselves to the ground in response to commands chanted by the minister of rites and all the time the musicians and singers banged gongs and drums and continued their strangely discordant chanting . |
| 8 | Three times they blanket the fire |
| 9 | The difference was compounded even further with the consideration that American pay-rates were two or three times ours . |
| 10 | His red beard has grown very long , right through the stone table ; when it has encircled the table three times it will be the time of awakening . |
| 11 | Three times it did this , then , satisfied , it flashed — electric blue — into the reeds and disappeared . |
| 12 | Right , what do you do with when you 're doing G , you do three times it |
| 13 | And three times it come on on and off ! |
| 14 | We 've said find three quarters by finding one quarter first and then you take three times it . |
| 15 | The thought of us going to America only three times it 's upset her . |
| 16 | Three times she stopped before reaching Charing Cross , abruptly breaking the current of pedestrians so people stepped around her , glancing , while she said , ‘ No … ’ and turned back from where she had come , only to turn again , move on . |
| 17 | Once , twice , three times she did it , each time picking up the card and examining it . |
| 18 | Three times she went one side of a tree when Schmidt went the other , emerging again without breaking her conversation . |
| 19 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |
| 20 | Because I think he 's in a room above you , but two or three times she heard er the wireless that er someone |
| 21 | You can generally borrow up to 90% of the value of the new home , and you can borrow as much as three times you salary : the loan will usually be for a maximum of 25 years . |
| 22 | Just sort of you could reasonable expect them to baby sit two or three times you know . |
| 23 | That 's three times you try to fall that , if you have an industrial injury |
| 24 | Three times he had made it clear to MacDonald that he did not wish to accept his resignation — on the morning of Sunday 23 August , when he told MacDonald that he would ‘ advise them ( the other two party leaders ) strongly to support ( him ) ’ ; at 10.20 p.m. on the evening of the same day , after the Cabinet meeting , when the King ‘ impressed upon the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped that he would reconsider the situation ’ ; and at the Buckingham Palace conference itself . |
| 25 | Three times he tried the manoeuvre and three times he failed to haul his weight over the sill . |
| 26 | Three times he tried the manoeuvre and three times he failed to haul his weight over the sill . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't let me have to do it , ’ three times he begged the Father . |
| 28 | Peter was accused three times , as he sat in the courtyard of the high priest 's house , of being one of Jesus ' men and three times he denied it . |
| 29 | Three times he recalled his favourite , Piers Gaveston , from an exile imposed on him first by Edward I and then by the barons ; the Ordinances , to which the king was sworn in 1311 and again in 1317 , he treated with contempt ; the expulsion of the Despensers , father and son , was reversed almost before it was enforced . |
| 30 | Three times he had to pull over to examine the map . |