Example sentences of "three [noun pl] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three blokes we know , for sure , are locked up , doing time in Whitely nick , yeah ? |
| 2 | For three hours we worked and drank , worked and ate , worked and packed . |
| 3 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
| 4 | After three hours we looked for land . |
| 5 | For over three hours we talked and talked and still neither brother had returned to the subject that lay foremost in our minds . |
| 6 | ‘ And in three hours we 'll be home , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The remaining two and a half thousand , because they come in on very much slower methods , can take up to two to three hours to reach Bracknell , but by the end of the three hours we have all the information that was available at any given hour of the day . |
| 8 | ‘ In about three minutes we shall have one or two bombs from the German mortars falling near here , ’ he remarked , as he started again on his steak and kidney . |
| 9 | about three books we were put in |
| 10 | So we explore , we probe and you can probe in a variety of different ways but what are the three probes we have that you , you come across ? |
| 11 | And I think the way we did it we marked down the three shops we wanted to do and make sure you do those three shops . |
| 12 | look at this traffic coming in now I think the way we did it , we marked down the three shops we wanted to do |
| 13 | and there were three aspects we looked at I wonder why it was three ? |
| 14 | My own ruse was to ‘ swap ’ credit cards with an equally debt-ridden friend ; for three months we had to travel halfway across London to retrieve our own card and ask ‘ permission ’ before making a purchase ! |
| 15 | After a gap of two or three months we moved on to Chris Kinsey , who 's done the last six or seven Stones albums among other things . |
| 16 | Every three months we will send you a statement showing all monies paid into and out of your account . |
| 17 | So it was an uphill struggle and within three months we were doing well in shop and I left my job and since then I 'm in Walsall . |
| 18 | We got er we , well after the first three months , the first three months we , we were s what they call student nurses . |
| 19 | Th this type of thing until the , after the three months we had to pass an exam . |
| 20 | ‘ We were granted ownership of the building in March and in just three months we have been able to get it ready . ’ |
| 21 | Use the stand alone system so it gets the date that we 're going to collect it , it can say all the things that we 've said , it 's , you know , we wrote to you some time ago and , and er we , we did n't get the money if you do n't , as you said , if you do n't send us this money we 're gon na sounds like a threat does n't it , if you do n't send this money within the next three months we 'll automatically collect it together with your regular premium due on the date |
| 22 | As examples of such projects in our three districts we would draw to your attention : |
| 23 | Being on soft peat land , digging was easy and at a depth of three feet we found a two inch cylindrical piece of metal . |
| 24 | And for three decades we 've given our clients a process for better decision making and problem solving up and down the organization . |
| 25 | In the past three decades we might say that , in Scott Fitzgerald 's words , ‘ life was being refined down to a point ’ , in this case the point of increasing material consumption ; or , to put the matter in more political terms , that the industrialized societies , both capitalist and socialist , were developing the kind of narrow and obsessive orientation which Tawney ( 1921 , pp. 106–7 ) criticized when he wrote that : |
| 26 | well if you get three amps we can have that er , that |
| 27 | For three weeks we have no proper political events , of the sort that would earn a place on a news programme under normal circumstances . |
| 28 | Within the space of three weeks we were to experience two of the most important ceremonies of any legionnaire 's contract : the moment when he was presented with his white képi , and the celebrations surrounding Christmas . |
| 29 | For three weeks we were delayed in Cape Town , with hardly a passenger boat being able to sail , although one or two boats managed to sneak away but with fear of being black/egged on arriving at the next port of call . |
| 30 | ‘ In three weeks we will have the best ship , sir , and the finest crew in England . |