Example sentences of "[prep] it three [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 IN THE Domesday Book Sedgebrook is valued at £8 , having with it three mills , sixty acres of meadow , and land for nine plough teams .
4 Stane Street , from London to Chichester , has along it three settlements , Hardham , Alfoldean and Ewell .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 Er they were n't in it three months .
7 But they did carry an extra two-gallon can , and had to resort to it three times .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 She said she ‘ hollered ’ at it three times not to pull her in the water .
11 He fires at it three times to try and open it , but without success .
12 The new Emperor called for lights , examined the face , then thrust at it three times with a sword .
13 You know , I mean but this teacher wo n't stand no nonsense and I said to Lee y you were at it three years before you could speak like Carla speaks it !
14 Been at it three week now , so
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