Example sentences of "[be] [verb] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thurston , had arrived with a load of ammunition for the Beaufighters on 7th , but had been delayed three days in leaving again due to a heavy swell on the sea . |
| 2 | In the seventy-fourth island of the Black Sea , right in the middle , are hidden three reeds . |
| 3 | If they have been just very bad , and if they have someone to stand up for them , they are given three strokes of the whip , usually by Sheldon Parry , the born-again television director , and then made to put on a short green smock for the duration of the service . |
| 4 | Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS . |
| 5 | Gary Gavin , who 's twenty-four , has been given three life sentences for a series of sex assaults on women , girls and young boys . |
| 6 | Kisekka , who was appointed Vice-President , was in his mid-70s and reported to be in poor health ; in February 1988 he had been given three deputies to ease his workload . |
| 7 | His assailants next told him that they had been given three pounds each ‘ to do you up tonight ’ by the ‘ drug squad ’ detective with whom he was already unpleasantly familiar . |
| 8 | And Altovar Limited has been given three months to pay the eight thousand pound fine . |
| 9 | I had a good job as an electronics engineer and have just been given three months notice , losing all my pension rights after working 26 years for the same company . |
| 10 | ‘ I have a dog as big as me and it 's been poisoned three times . ’ |
| 11 | Without a photo-pass hanging from his left lapel , he was uncomfortably conspicuous ; his identity had been checked three times since Amaranth had dropped him . |
| 12 | The evergreen heart-throb thought he should be an expert on the subject having been wed three times . |
| 13 | He then explained that ‘ … what we are pronouncing are not the three names of God ( or worse still the names of three gods , as some would suggest ) but we are pronouncing three aspects or qualities of the Deity which are well-known and used , in Christianity and other religions , namely His Eternal Existence , His Transcendence and His Omnipotence . ’ |
| 14 | SUNDERLAND are staging three £100 opens tonight , including a trial stakes for the forthcoming £2,000-to-the-winner Milligans Bakery Challenge Trphy , which starts a week tonight . |
| 15 | The purpose of this chapter has been to establish three propositions : that religious beliefs have penetrated scientific discussion on many levels , that to reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict is therefore inadequate , but that to construct a revisionist history for apologetic purposes would be just as problematic . |
| 16 | ‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine . |
| 17 | The steadings had been built three sides of a square , with the fourth side open to the road . |
| 18 | It had been decided three people might overwhelm the man they were calling on . |
| 19 | Police are hunting three men after a hundred and forty miles an hour car chase . |
| 20 | Police are hunting three men after a stabbing in Oxford city centre . |
| 21 | That question has been answered three days running . |
| 22 | ‘ You have to remember they are the current league champions and had been training three nights a week . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm now going through what I experienced at Rosyth , except that Eastern Electricity had been privatised three years before I joined whereas the dockyard was contractorised only a month before . ’ |
| 24 | No in tt tur erm turbine we 're building , we 're building three big'uns , right ? |
| 25 | Well obviously if if you the normal rule of thumb , as I 'm led to believe , is that if you buy a used a vehicle from a used car dealer , you 're given three months , three thousand miles , in which you can you can take complaints back . |
| 26 | but if you 're using three year average , three recent three years . |
| 27 | And we 're getting three squares to the centimetre so we go up there two centimetres and we get the so if we go up every two squares |
| 28 | You 're skipping three Johnny |
| 29 | - You think you 're buying three pounds of onions in the shops , get home and find you 're actually carrying a bag of the new season 's hyacinth bulbs . |
| 30 | " We 're asking three pounds for the two De Morgan lustre tiles . |