Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It finished for me three years ago . |
| 2 | No I look after them three days a week . |
| 3 | The congers were ugly-looking brutes , some of them three feet or more in length ; Pierre warned me they could bite through a sea-boot . |
| 4 | One of them three months ago for a violent attack . |
| 5 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
| 6 | So I 've put us all in together as a group entry — sorry , Rainbow , not you , bubbeleh , you 're under the age limit — and I have costumes for you three girls upstairs . ’ |
| 7 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 8 | Soldiers were required to bring with them three months ' supply of provisions , arms , armour and tools for entrenching and other tasks . |
| 9 | She 's only been with them three months , remember , and Daniel has n't been to see her since . |
| 10 | And I can see this er this woman with her three children go off to the workhouse and er they was crying but they were waving and then all the neighbours was out waving to them . |
| 11 | She had already danced with him three times . |
| 12 | Katherine had come in contact with him three years previously through her contacts in the London underworld . |
| 13 | IN THE Domesday Book Sedgebrook is valued at £8 , having with it three mills , sixty acres of meadow , and land for nine plough teams . |
| 14 | Stane Street , from London to Chichester , has along it three settlements , Hardham , Alfoldean and Ewell . |
| 15 | ‘ Despite the appalling business of dropping GMTV in it three weeks before they went on the air , it was far better to make a clean break . |
| 16 | Er they were n't in it three months . |
| 17 | The route the Phillips had been asked to consider had already been put to them three times and was the same as the existing one , he said . |
| 18 | In particular it is Paul 's prayer that the Spirit would reveal to them three things . |
| 19 | Glenn Hoddle says they they do n't do things easily … they were the best footballing side on the day and its justice for what happened to them three years ago |
| 20 | ‘ She gave it to me three times , then she got difficult . ’ |
| 21 | But I think conductors would not be the answer because what happens when the driver is smoking as has happened to me three times in three weeks . |
| 22 | And als , erm and on them three services is what we said a few moments ago , they got the choice of three different options . |
| 23 | But if I had said this to you three months ago would you have thought it worth the extra outlay ? |
| 24 | The guard shouted to him three times but he took no notice at all . |
| 25 | Men are portrayed as being powerless : CB LOLITA , 13 , HAD SEX ON THE SLIDE ( ‘ A girl of 13 had sex on a kiddies ' playground slide with a young man she contacted over CB radio , a court heard yesterday ’ ) ; Bedtime antics of a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ ( ‘ A 13-year-old girl … described as a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ went to bed with one man … and then swapped him for another in the same room ’ ) ; Girl , 15 , tempted her mother 's man ( ‘ She had made propositions to him three times which he resisted before succumbing ’ ) ; Sex-case man goes to jail ( Defence counsel claimed ‘ the initiative in the sexual relationship came from the girl ’ ) ; CABBlE 'S TEEN SEX SESSIONS ( ‘ Taxi driver … found the cheeky advances of a teenage Lolita hard to resist ’ ) ; CHOIRMASTER AND GIRL , 15 ( ‘ I was tempted and that 's all ’ ) ; Girl gave rapist sex lesson ( ‘ A 14-year-old girl put out a challenge to a convicted rapist … . |
| 26 | er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times |
| 27 | It could n't be Dr Kent ; she hardly knew him , she 'd only spoken to him three times , and then briefly . |
| 28 | But they did carry an extra two-gallon can , and had to resort to it three times . |
| 29 | What a pity the kangaroo had been discovered too late for Johnson s Dictionary : Captain Cook makes the first reference to it three years earlier , in his Journal for August 1770 . |
| 30 | And he may be marching into a trap with a right hand that needed surgery on it three fights ago to enable him to continue in boxing . |