Example sentences of "come three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the column has come three times , each time in the late afternoon . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've come three weeks early so that we can get in plenty of training , plus the three warm-up games . |
| 3 | They used to come three times a week with lumps of ice , oh as big as that , about as thick as that , in bags . |
| 4 | The second had a cap which was sewn with emeralds ; the third bore a pair of the high-heeled boots which great ladies wore to walk about the city ; and behind them , their faces solemn with barely suppressed mirth , came three women , a high-collared cloak folded lengthwise between them . |
| 5 | He was shocked when she told him that the gardener came three times a week and did not offer to mend it . |
| 6 | She came three times before he did , her legs wrapped round him , her screams muffled against the force of his hand . |
| 7 | He came three times a week , and was very eager to learn . |
| 8 | There then came three Masters in quick succession , Thomas Leigh , John Brownswerd , and Richard Heywood . |
| 9 | The blast came three months after the start of a determined government offensive against the country 's cocaine traffickers . |
| 10 | The accolade came three months after giving birth to her first child , called Isha and she even beat her hairdressing husband , Jason to the title . |
| 11 | The shooting of Sgt Newman came three days after two IRA bombs in London killed three people and injured 91 . |
| 12 | An abrupt end to the affair came three days later when refugees were awakened before dawn and taken to airports to be flown back to Albania . |
| 13 | Observers in Hanoi said that her release , which came three days before a visit to Vietnam by French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas , was a goodwill gesture towards France . |
| 14 | The attack came three days later . |
| 15 | My major intervention in medical matters came three years after my Rhodesian episode . |
| 16 | Myeni 's warning came three weeks after it was reported that the ANC was forming " self-defence units " in the townships , a measure condemned by a South African police spokesman as " a recipe for civil war " [ see p. 38132 ] . |
| 17 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 18 | The news comes three months after the announcement that Roche mill in Cornwall is to close by the end of June . |
| 19 | Their action comes three days after BR had to postpone for a year its bill to build a high-speed Channel tunnel rail link to central London . |