Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] three year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set fire to a barn , not realising that there was a sick cow in there that perished , and I got three years ’ approved school . |
| 2 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
| 3 | When my right hon. Friend the Minister of State next has contact with the Indonesian ambassador , will he express the abhorrence of the House at the indiscriminate shooting of men , women and children in Dili , which I visited three years ago with other hon. Members ? |
| 4 | before I was a gard er was a mo a gardener , and after I 'd three years to the extent I ca n't . |
| 5 | I spent three years in Vienna as a student . |
| 6 | Remember , I spent three years of my youth there . ’ |
| 7 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 8 | And then I got on a G P scheme in Crawley in Sussex and I spent three years there . |
| 9 | Then I spent three years there and it was only three weeks after I 'd left that I was offered the part of Russell in Butterflies . |
| 10 | But I 'm not sure that 's right I just , I mean I spent three years |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I lost three years of international chances but now I want to help Oxford win . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The man I knew three years ago would never have stood serving sausages to other people . |
| 13 | ‘ I now feel that I am back to the form I had three years ago , and after my performances in Ireland , I feel I can win the Paris-Tours classic next Saturday , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |
| 15 | The severity of her discipline — she lived three years on bread and water , sometimes went barefoot to church in winter and prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church during weather so cold that the wine froze in the chalice during Mass — is typical of these women . |
| 16 | Why would you need three years to make a record ? |
| 17 | Miss Asher also runs her own cake shop , which she opened three years ago in Chelsea . |
| 18 | As a teenager she toured America playing Topsy in a Yiddish version of Uncle Tom 's Cabin ; and after several years in rep at Philadelphia , in such plays as The Silver King , Medea and The Kreutzer Sonata , she spent three years in cabaret and variety . |
| 19 | She spent three years in Paris studying biology under Baron Georges Cuvier , and then went on to Switzerland , the Netherlands , Germany , Italy , and Spain . |
| 20 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 21 | He looked at her grimly , then asked in a cool tone , ‘ Do you expect me to remember the clothes you wore three years ago ? ’ |
| 22 | She died three years ago in a tragic fall down a flight of stairs . |
| 23 | As for the man you knew three years ago — he is no longer around . |
| 24 | Someone said to me you take three years to mourn . |
| 25 | She had three years to spend in a beautiful city , reading ; and that was what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 26 | She had three years as an Operational Research Assistant for British Rail , then was ‘ hijacked into teaching Maths ’ in Nairobi when her husband was moved there , then retrained as a secretary . |
| 27 | ‘ You have three years to the revolution , ’ shouts Davydd , before being edged off . |
| 28 | ‘ They met three years ago , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Many feel that so called rebel tours such as the one lead by Mike Gatting in 1982 did more harm than good.Cricketers were accused of sacrificing sport and principles chasing sizeable pay cheques and on their return were unrepentant even when they got three year bans from international cricket . |
| 30 | We 're going to make them fulfil the promises they made three years ago . |