Example sentences of "[pers pn] three [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allow them three swings with the stick . |
| 2 | Moors are closing the gap steadily on the leading teams , and three points today could lift them three places into fifth . |
| 3 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 4 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 5 | And I got the Engine Room boys in the basement to give me three photocopies of our Romanian friend . ’ |
| 6 | She says well get me three copies of it . |
| 7 | I had dinner with an actor the other night who managed to tell me three times throughout the meal that he was 50 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He whistled now and tinkled an imaginary drum , before offering me three teeth of golden maize . |
| 10 | Give me three tickets for your first concert , and I 'll be happy . ’ |
| 11 | He was to be my minder for an initial trial which would give me three laps in one of the school 's Escort XRi 's under his instruction , three laps with him driving and five laps in a single-seat Formula First racing car . |
| 12 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 13 | For dinner they gave me three kinds of meat — a square of beef , a triangle of chicken and a circle of lamb . |
| 14 | I 'LL geev you three camels for your wife , ’ said the toothless street vendor with a lecherous look on his face . |
| 15 | Example 1 gives you three inversions of an Asus2 ( A 1st , B 2nd and E 5th ) . |
| 16 | They 'll only give you three months of Sky programmes . |
| 17 | I think I 'll erm , I 'll give you three marks for it , but I 'll give you the opportunity for three bonus marks now , because here am I , Mrs. Public , and I did n't understand a word of that . |
| 18 | That if you work in the big city you might only have seven miles between calls but it still takes you three quarters of an hour . |
| 19 | And we take you three years along the line , so your husband dies , and you 've now got a young child . |
| 20 | we 're giving you three tips for the shortlist … |
| 21 | Unlike many other adventures , Rex gives you three levels of difficulty to suit both amateurs and hardened adventures . |
| 22 | WE THREE GREENS We three Greens of Politics are Patten and Porritt and Pearce , we 'll go far Two of us preaching , One of us teaching , how to avoid the car . |
| 23 | God gives him three signs with which to convince them . |
| 24 | " Give him three ounces of this immediately in a pint of water , then follow it with one and a half ounces night and morning and let us know if he is n't a lot better in two days . " |
| 25 | Donar began the final the under dog — Wilkinson had defeated him three weeks in a row with relative ease . |
| 26 | Two days later , Herzog invited Peres to try and form a new government , giving him three weeks in which to do so . |
| 27 | Being adequately provided for , he was able to book himself into a downtown hotel which cost him three dollars per night , though he often failed to make it back to the hotel , finding the cosmopolitan and nocturnal life of the town there entirely to his liking : consecration dismantled ! |
| 28 | A self-taught blacksmith has won a prestige commission to create new gates for Hereford Cathedral.The job will take him three months to complete . |
| 29 | He got one back on us at the 15th to put him three shots behind again , so the 17th was going to be a crucial hole . |
| 30 | It took him three quarters of an hour to get us there . |