Example sentences of "he [vb past] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car three ahead of him moved three yards . |
| 2 | for example , when the Select Committee conducted an inquiry into Economic and Monetary Union and political Union , Dr Kari-Otto pöhl , giving evidence as president of the Bundesbank , found that the ad hoc Committee questioning him contained three former Governors of the Bank of England . |
| 3 | In his acceptance speech he made three predictions : ‘ I believe you will see tonight that Britain will have returned strongly to three-party politics again . |
| 4 | In 1692 Bart took more than 100 prizes into St Malo within a year and in the following year , with three frigates from Dunkirk , he made three destructive raids into the North Sea , spreading panic as far as Newcastle . |
| 5 | He made three obvious mistakes . |
| 6 | And McAllister added : ‘ He played a major part in Stuttgart , where he made three or four great saves . |
| 7 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 8 | He made three calls , the first of which was to Lily . |
| 9 | He made three attempts to enter Parliament for Tewkesbury before succeeding in 1918 , when he stood for Stroud as a coalition candidate . |
| 10 | But when I played Paul he made three successive century breaks . |
| 11 | And me dad , he made three anyhow , course there 'd be non of them to the for they were wood . |
| 12 | He checked three other boxes before he left . |
| 13 | Brannen , who resigned from Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harriers before Christmas , had to abort an attempt to achieve the qualifying points score in Maryland , USA , two weeks ago when he registered three fouls in the second discipline , the long jump . |
| 14 | Besides the Foundation stories , Asimov 's best known book was probably his second , I , Robot ( 1950 ) , in which he promulgated three unalterable ‘ Laws of Robotics ’ — first , that a robot may not harm a human being , or , through inaction , allow a human being to come to harm ; secondly , that a robot must obey the orders of a human being , except when this would conflict with the first law ; and thirdly , that a robot must protect itself , except when this would conflict with the first and second laws . |
| 15 | At a much later stage he produced three sonnets about Italian freedom ( At Bologna , In Remembrance of the Late Insurrections , 1837 ) . |
| 16 | Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch . |
| 17 | He met three men inside A45 . |
| 18 | The Home Secretary rejected any suggestion that the methods authorized for interrogation contained any element of cruelty but he appointed three Privy Councillors to consider those methods . |
| 19 | ROBERT ALNER continued his relentless progress towards taking The Daily Telegraph Men 's Championship at Portman on Saturday when he rode three winners and now leads Philip Scholfield — who was restricted to one success at the Dartmoor — by 22 to 13 . |
| 20 | In a radio address on 24 May , for example , he announced three major categories of reform , which he expected to see accomplished before the end of the year : reform of the civil service ; nationalization of the coal , electricity , and banking industries ; and a plan to boost France 's birthrate . |
| 21 | He got three months for destroying the blanket . |
| 22 | He got three years . |
| 23 | He got three months ’ jail but has served it on remand . |
| 24 | He got three CSEs before going to college full-time . |
| 25 | He took it in the pub and he got three quarts of beer ; and he had to lay a penny down and bought me a bottle of pop . |
| 26 | And he stood there and he got three quarts o' beer into him . |
| 27 | You see he 's he 's got a choice , he got three weeks to move in , make his mind up |
| 28 | He got three things , oh a pastry things |
| 29 | and they say film industry department , Wakefield somewhere got John 's name out of the blue , so that , do n't know anything else about it because he 's , he 's always been seen by you know , this , this other company , and he got three tax eighty seven , eighty eight , eighty eight , eighty nine , ninety , and one what , were the estimate was twenty five thousand pounds , and five thousand pounds |
| 30 | he got three goals in two minutes |