Example sentences of "took three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changes in the number of national dailies from 1945 to 1989 were very few and took three forms : launch or closure , relaunch , and change of status . |
| 2 | At the end of the war , provincial newspaper ownership took three forms . |
| 3 | To complete the portrait took three sittings and each time , to Indenbaum 's surprise , Modigliani turned up clean-shaven and well-groomed , and behaved in a modest , almost shy manner . |
| 4 | Only the 16th caught him out as he took three putts for his only bogey . |
| 5 | But the 25-year-old tour newcomer also took three putts at the seventeenth , spinning out of the hole from three feet , then went into sand at the last thinning his recovery . |
| 6 | And erm they 'd moved the kit , got the electricians to do it and it took , it took three fuses when they did it , I mean the extensions fused on that particular system , the data pairs fused |
| 7 | It took three pints of home brew , each , before we stopped scratching . |
| 8 | Some years ago a newly-qualified private pilot , trained at a school which taught mixture-rich , did a quick conversion onto a smart 300 hp six-seat retractable and took three friends overseas for the day . |
| 9 | He took three ships — the Santa Maria , the Nina and the Pinta — and 88 men . |
| 10 | At Barlinnie Jail in Scotland , prisoners rioted and took three warders hostage . |
| 11 | Austria 's Beate Reinstadler took three hours 15 minutes to beat the qualifier Tracy Moreton , of Australia , 5-7 , 7-5 , 7-5 . |
| 12 | It took three hours to dig them out , and it was no fun . |
| 13 | It took three hours to get in character every morning and another three to get out at night . ’ |
| 14 | We left in three flights , each led by a Fulmar for navigational purposes , some 500 nautical miles from Malta ( my logbook shows the flight took three hours and 20 minutes ) . |
| 15 | The tables took three hours to set . |
| 16 | It took three hours to get what was left of the body out . |
| 17 | I apologise to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department for being unable to attend at the start of the debate , due to the aggravated taking of British Rail , which took three hours to take me from York to the metropolis . |
| 18 | It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths , but all were empty . |
| 19 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 20 | It took three minutes to erect the inner tent on its first outing but because it was raining constantly , the inner was a little wet before I had a chance to put the flysheet over . |
| 21 | In 1992 , it took three competitors from the London insurance market under its wing : Cairn Computer Systems with its Ingres-based technology and accompanying client list was bought for £200,000. £800,000 was raised through a share issue for the City division of Weir Systems ( CI No 2,076 ) which also added open systems expertise more long term contracts . |
| 22 | It took three quarters of an hour to get it out and meanwhile it did some damage . |
| 23 | I only took three quarters of an hour to get there . |
| 24 | In one spell in the last session the Sri Lankans took three wickets for eight runs . |
| 25 | Australia , who had set Sri Lanka 522 to win after declaring their second innings at 513 for five , appeared to be coasting home when they took three wickets before lunch to reduce the touring side to 208 for six . |
| 26 | Zimbabwe declared their first innings at 283–9 , 52 behind , then took three wickets before the Kiwis struggled to 187–4 by the close . |
| 27 | England captain/wicketkeeper Alec Stewart congratulates Chris Lewis who took three wickets for 43 runs on the third day of the Test . |
| 28 | David Capel took three wickets to put Northants on top against Kent in the clash between the second and third placed championship teams . |
| 29 | Mark Waugh 's miserable international season continued with a duck , one of two stumpings for Pandit as left-arm spinner Raju took three wickets . |
| 30 | He took three wickets leaving the tourists to declare at 388 for five at tea . |