Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some farmers were told that they could either settle at once for 60 per cent of what was due to them , or wait three years to fight for the full amount . |
| 2 | Thus , someone who knows that he or she will want to buy dollars ( with pounds ) in three months time could either agree a price for that transaction now ( that is , buy in the forward market ) or wait three months and buy in the ‘ spot ’ market ( the market in which foreign exchange is bought and sold immediately , or ‘ on the spot ’ ) . |
| 3 | In the first half of 1853 he initiated or sanctioned three responses : " He appealed to Great Britain for support , and took out of the lumber room the forgotten agreement of 1844 " ; he sent an emissary to Constantinople for bilateral talks ; and he began to make plans for fighting . |
| 4 | There will be firms who are practising today who will probably figure in the er top one hundred in the city who in my opinion will not be practising in that shape or form three years from now . |
| 5 | you got yo would have to take and hour or take two hours , or take three hours and if you take up to three hours or if you got three separate hours that was detention and if we were in our in the junior part of the school in the first three forms erm , you then had to go into school on Saturday morning . |
| 6 | He was punched and kicked to the ground and stabbed three times in the back . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm still thankful to be alive and eating three meals a day . |
| 8 | You can knit a braid over nine stitches by first crossing the six stitches to the left of the nine stitches , knitting three rows , then crossing the six stitches to the right and knitting three rows . |
| 9 | Furthermore , she was n't too keen on having to shop and prepare three meals a day when she 'd been so organised before , and had done the minimum of cooking . |
| 10 | Born in Liverpool to a West African father in 1951 , Conteh won ABA , British and Commonwealth titles but was stripped of his world title by the World Boxing Council for failing to go through with a contracted defence in 1977 and failed three times to regain the championship before retiring in 1981 . |
| 11 | As it T's off the main flow , it takes only part of the flow from the pump , and using three Wurlys from one pump you lose only 30 GPH from the main flow rate . |
| 12 | Then he found a telephone box and made three calls . |
| 13 | It was ordained that anyone hunting the deer in that forest without royal licence was to pay a fine and suffer three years imprisonment . |
| 14 | The delimited field thus consists of agents and institutions and involves three types of struggle — those between ‘ makers ’ of art ( between , say , makers of consecrated art , makers of avant-garde , heretical art , and makers of ‘ middle brow ’ art ( ‘ art moyen ’ ) such as photography , cinema , and jazz , which also is struggling for consecration by the institutions ) , those between makers and ‘ marketers ’ ( in essence the institutions ) , and those between marketers . |
| 15 | Even though it is a copyright library and receives three copies of all books published in Britain , many overseas books and journals have been overlooked in the past . |
| 16 | Another winner of its three heats , Watabid ( 10 metres ) also faces a stiff challenge against one of the remaining back markers , Ah Jaycee , which wears the stripes and receives three metres in the first semi-final tonight . |
| 17 | Glorney , 25 , of Woodlands Road , Middlesbrough , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted three offences of theft , handling stolen goods and obtaining by deception . |
| 18 | Yesterday Summersgill , 27 , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted three offences of burglary , four offences of handling stolen goods and one offence of possessing amphetamine sulphate . |
| 19 | Yesterday Eyles , of Berwick Road , Darlington , appeared before Teesside Crown Court and admitted three offences of assault causing actual bodily harm and using threatening words or behaviour . |
| 20 | ‘ He was a brilliant A-level student and got three A passes . |
| 21 | but you might you know miss it by a week and got three months , two months , three weeks at the most |
| 22 | Erm and I mean I 've had a recent bereavement , I mean I , I lost my mum at Christmas and got three days leave . |
| 23 | I was in prison on remand for three weeks , then I went to court and got three years ' probation . |
| 24 | After going around edge of large bay ( ignoring path descending to beach ) , path keeps to edge of fields on seaward side and crosses three stiles ; |
| 25 | Remains of the chancel are said to be of the 12th century , and the tower was rebuilt in the 15th century and has three bells . |
| 26 | The Vale of Rheidol depot is the former BR standard gauge shed and has three roads . |
| 27 | On the count of ten , the chosen child opens his eyes and has three chances to guess who is holding the bell behind his back . |
| 28 | The degree is taught exclusively in the School of Education , takes place in College and School , and has three components . |
| 29 | ‘ It felt comfortable to use , it 's light and has three heat settings . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ For several years I had suffered tiredness and bouts of depression which had been put down to overwork , disturbed nights with the children and stress , ’ days Lyn Perry , 40 , of Rickmansworth , who 's married and has three daughters , aged between 10 and 15 . |