Example sentences of "three [noun] [conj] a [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three cars and a lorry were involved — The road was closed for several hours and diversions put into operation . |
| 2 | Although the basics of toilet training can be mastered rapidly , it will take two or three months before a puppy is regularly asking to go outside of its own accord . |
| 3 | For the first three days after a foal is born it is usually fairly accepting of the world around it , and it is of considerable advantage to us to make use of these three days to teach the foal that we are friendly and trustworthy . |
| 4 | It is ridiculous that people wait up to three years until a decision is reached . |
| 5 | It will be remembered that Dudley and Stephens was the case where three men and a cabin-boy were compelled to take to an open boat after the wreck of their yacht Mignonette . |
| 6 | Three men and a boy were shot dead and , when tents were set ablaze , two women and eleven children who had hidden in an underground cellar , were suffocated by smoke . |
| 7 | Three men and a woman are being questioned by police in connection with the murder of a car dealer whose remains were found in a lake . |
| 8 | The incident occurred 48 hours after three men and a woman were shot dead allegedly infiltrating up the River Tigris by boat . |