Example sentences of "[noun] took three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
| 2 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
| 3 | One stretch took three overnights where the great plan allowed just one . |
| 4 | Thomas Gregory-Smith took three Hummersknott Darlington , wickets but they still Durham Johnson School 's total of 54 with four wickets in hand . |
| 5 | His study took three months to prepare and , considers the markets available , it considers things like recycling credits that the councils can give you . |
| 6 | Brahms took three years to complete his second piano concerto , and he was 48 when it had its first performance ( 1881 ) with himself as soloist , in Budapest — then the twin capital , with Vienna , of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . |
| 7 | Andrew Lake and Kevin Ash took three wickets each Tanfield School Stanley , restricted local rivals Greencroft to 58 for eight . |
| 8 | Then , leading 12-4 , Hall took three points running for a convincing victory . |
| 9 | Eventually , leading 12-4 , Hall took three points running for a convincing victory . |
| 10 | In one spell in the last session the Sri Lankans took three wickets for eight runs . |
| 11 | McKenna took three days to consider the offer before refusing , nominally on health grounds . |
| 12 | At the end of the war , provincial newspaper ownership took three forms . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The 130-km journey from Belgrade to Kragujevac took three days on horseback and five by horse-drawn carriage , but in 1814 only Miloš , the metropolitan and the Turkish governor had such vehicles . |
| 15 | The tables took three hours to set . |
| 16 | The whole peace-making took three days . |
| 17 | David Capel took three wickets to put Northants on top against Kent in the clash between the second and third placed championship teams . |
| 18 | Home professional Colwin Cort , took four for 41 while Graham Bell , Graham Young and Brian Lewins took three wickets each to dismiss the Synners for 95 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | With Caroline Seebohm , Miss Campbell took three years to write the 160-page book , which is published in February by Arum Press . |
| 21 | The dummy took three weeks ' work by a team of volunteers , mostly part-time and helping when they could . |
| 22 | This is the vehicle that Honda took three years to create . |
| 23 | Ho took three gangs off the line and within a week not a tree was left standing . |
| 24 | A FURIOUS housewife took three workmen hostage after being told her heating must be turned off until the New Year . |
| 25 | The filming , which resulted in an eight-minute segment took three days from 8am to 7pm each day and standing in fire gear in the freezing , draughty shell of a building is not Hollywood . |
| 26 | In London the chaos took three seconds to get into full gear . |
| 27 | Austria 's Beate Reinstadler took three hours 15 minutes to beat the qualifier Tracy Moreton , of Australia , 5-7 , 7-5 , 7-5 . |
| 28 | Mark Waugh 's miserable international season continued with a duck , one of two stumpings for Pandit as left-arm spinner Raju took three wickets . |
| 29 | A shot of the heron pond in Grand Teton , Wyoming took three days . |
| 30 | A shot of the heron pond in Grand Teton , Wyoming took three days . |