Example sentences of "three [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crompton and Jones carried out detailed investigations of the three institutions they studied and found strong evidence that proletarianization had taken place . |
| 2 | Three times England were in command , and three times they were forced to relinquish their grasp . |
| 3 | Three times they go through the same ritual ( 22:41–23:10 ; 23:13–24 ; 23:27–24–9 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Three times they blanket the fire |
| 7 | In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late . |
| 8 | But erm I think last year we w Was it about three hours they went , last year ? |
| 9 | For the next three minutes they experienced sensations that only requited sexual lust can bring . |
| 10 | And within three minutes they were out of the house and into the car , and only then did Henry ask , ‘ What 's it all about ? ’ |
| 11 | Whittingham scored in the 65th minute to give Portsmouth the three goals they needed to rise above West Ham . |
| 12 | In division three Hereford are off to Chesterfield … they need cheering up … so lets give them a boost by showing their last win … three goals they nailed into Northampton |
| 13 | in the third division Hereford want to forget all about last week 's six nil drubbing up at Crewe … so instead we 've got the three goals they scored against tomorrow 's opponents Colchester last season … |
| 14 | There was always a hunger for newspapers and magazines ( usually preferred to books ) and he 'd heard of baptizers in Patashoqua who named children by stabbing a copy of the London Times with a pin and bequeathing the first three words they pricked upon the infant , however unmusical the combination . |
| 15 | Some of the ones I passed were two or three pound they 're only a pound over there . |
| 16 | By volume , retail sales grew just 1.2 per cent in the year to August and in the latest three months they were 1 per cent lower than in the previous period . |
| 17 | Over the last three months they rose only 0.5 per cent by value on the previous three months , but still some 12 per cent more than the same period in 1988 . |
| 18 | Reactors to the TB test were first found in their herd in January 1986 but after only three months they got the all-clear again . |
| 19 | Every three months they draw up a list of new jobs . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 23 | After three months they would be entitled to the statutory minimum wage in Germany , but this would still be less than the wages taken home by Germans working on the same site . |
| 24 | When I traced my own family tree I found that the Heys had come into the parish of Penistone ( and more particularly to that part known as the township of Thurlstone where I lived ) about the year 1800 and that during the previous three centuries they had resided in Kirkburton parish immediately to the north . |
| 25 | Three bottles they drink between the two of them . |
| 26 | True , they have feeble strength and toughness , but with three wounds they are more resilient than the same frontage of Goblins or Orcs . |
| 27 | So if we can hurt them or certainly gang together if you like , cos unity is strength , and between the three workforces they 'll certainly slow down production and hopefully force things . |
| 28 | Over a period of three weeks they were shunted back and forth between Germany , London and Cairo until the Home Office granted them temporary admission . |
| 29 | He is an experienced manager and he knows that if a player is sitting on the treatment table for two or three weeks they are bound to put on a few pounds . ’ |
| 30 | Within three weeks they die , having laid the eggs of the next generation which will be in the soil until the time comes to repeat the cycle . |