Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked three teachers where she was and they said she was n't in |
| 2 | For these quite complex compositions I produced three layouts of each chart , each gradually increasing in detail until the approximate position of the elements has been decided . |
| 3 | He 's just putting , just putting , I got three eggs , I was just putting them on the bed I could n't be bothered with them then . |
| 4 | Remember what I did there I got three themes and for each one I got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I got three kids , a 28 thousand buck mortgage and alimony payments to make to my ex-wife . |
| 8 | Remember what I did there I got three themes and for each one I got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes . |
| 9 | I tried three times to get in but was beaten back by flames . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | I identified three kinds of structures : sequential , interactional and psychological . |
| 12 | I ate three cakes erm and then I had another one at two o'clock . |
| 13 | She instanced her of a long line of lagers , I consumed three Waistwatchers , two Seckburgers , an American Way and a double order of Tuckleberry Pie . |
| 14 | before I was a gard er was a mo a gardener , and after I 'd three years to the extent I ca n't . |
| 15 | In the week before work began I prepared three documents . |
| 16 | In the Tests I played I dropped three caught-and-bowleds and Don Tallon missed a chance behind as well . |
| 17 | Last week I received three letters from her all addressed to the Commando area in the South of England and forwarded to Normandy . |
| 18 | I paid three times what it would have cost me to make it ! |
| 19 | and I faced three women |
| 20 | I signed three times . |
| 21 | Keith , accordingly , had a commission made out , but , as the admiral complained , ‘ behold he had not passed , I ordered three captains to examine him , he declined to go , consequently I was obliged to tear the-commission ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ On Sunday I spent three hours along working on my putting . |
| 23 | He revealed : ‘ On Sunday , I spent three hours alone working on my putting . ’ |
| 24 | But first , but when we first came here I spent three hours on a Sunday morning , and I only did that area where you play football . |
| 25 | I spent three months in the Canaries , and since then I 've been travelling between England and Ireland . |
| 26 | ‘ I spent three months working out in the gym and having voice therapy , ’ O'Donnell says . |
| 27 | Before going up to Oxford I spent three months of the summer of 1929 in France to improve my French . |
| 28 | I spent three months knitting you a pair of bed-socks . |
| 29 | ECHO FROM THE PAST In 1980 Marlies and I spent three days travelling with Senator Edward Kennedy in his motorcade during the presidential primary campaign . |
| 30 | This failed and I spent three days in a state of constant terror before my ( surprisingly ! ) safe arrival in Ladakh . |