Example sentences of "[prep] three [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curran referred later to his ‘ Irish birth without an Irish upbringing ’ , since after three weeks he left Dublin for Aberdeen , his mother 's native home . |
| 2 | After three years he had saved up enough money to travel to Melbourne where he stayed with his uncle . |
| 3 | After three years he moved to a supervisory grade , and in 1960 to barley drying in the ‘ new maltings ’ , known as No. 1 Maltings . |
| 4 | Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love . |
| 5 | Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend , and after three years he 's still obsessed with the search for his lost love . |
| 6 | Anxious not to offend the tsar further , he hesitated ; after three days he gave way , went to Philippopolis and the union of the southern and northern Bulgars was proclaimed . |
| 7 | After three days he had limped home , crippled by blisters . |
| 8 | He took lots of notes and after three days he said , ‘ Raymond , I want to give you a check . |
| 9 | After three months he had written most of this work and was well enough to return to his beloved Kidderminster . |
| 10 | These past three years he had grown sullen and morose , keeping himself at a distance , always watching her , silently blaming her for Maisie 's tragic death . |
| 11 | That is the first of three tasks he had been picked to do to pave the way for Italy 's first post-reform elections . |
| 12 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 13 | At the end of three days he went to his grandfather , and said , " Grandfather , I am going to climb the mountain and find a place where I can get some peace and quiet . |
| 14 | For three years he had been with Jesus and heard his teaching — that he was bound to suffer , to die and to be raised from the dead . |
| 15 | For three years he helped run the ID Gallery , Düsseldorf , which deals in contemporary art . |
| 16 | For three years he would supply funds to run the farm , any profits being split equally between Tom and himself . |
| 17 | For three years he 's been campaigning on behalf of his brother Gary Mills and another man Tony Poole . |
| 18 | A one time marine and lifelong sailor Bob Shepton has always wanted to sail around the world … for three years he 's been planning and preparing for this voyage … |
| 19 | For three years he 's been training and testing out would be crews … |
| 20 | So he rowed out to sea in his little boat , and for three days he neither ate nor fished , but let the tides carry him where they would . |
| 21 | Melissa was about to retort that as she had only known Bonard for three days he could hardly be described as a friend of hers , when a surprised , ‘ Well , what do you know ? ’ from Jack made them both glance round . |
| 22 | Again at Easter he is arguing over his fee for attending the Archbishop at Canterbury and threatens that unless he is payed the sum of twenty shillings a day for three days he would never again obey the Archbishop 's mandate . |
| 23 | But , for three months he never had you know , seven days a week like , you know . |
| 24 | For three seasons he rode for the Scottish millionaire George Baird ( ‘ Mr Abington ’ ) , training and riding Busybody . |
| 25 | Together with three associates he was charged with organising 64,500 million yen in improper loans . |
| 26 | For the second time in three months he heard the battering sound of hobnailed boots climbing the wooden stairs to fetch a body . |
| 27 | In three months he has n't committed a single offence . |
| 28 | It was a great comfort to have him here , but in three days he went back to San Francisco . |
| 29 | In three seconds he was tilting it down his throat , ignoring the cups . |
| 30 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |