Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] three year " in BNC.
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| 1 | At St Martin 's School of Art , where they 'd met three years previously , they had already decided to make themselves the subject of their art . |
| 2 | I did n't know , she 'd done three years she said ! |
| 3 | Could n't she see that this was not the same Silas she 'd known three years ago ? |
| 4 | They began farming three years ago , when loans were easy to get and their bank was happy to lend them all they needed . |
| 5 | Marilyn L. Harrell , one of the key figures in the HUD scandal , was sentenced on June 22 to three years and 10 months in prison , and ordered to serve three years ' probation and to pay $600,000 in restitution . |
| 6 | Having travelled a reasonable distance into wind ( you did wait three years for a day with a light breeze did n't you ? ) , apply some sideways cyclic to bank the model and start a turn . |
| 7 | ‘ Little Fav ’ ( he seemed everybody 's favourite , with his bouncy , cheerful disposition ) had to wait three years before his next Test appearance , though he continued to bamboozle many a batsman in domestic cricket . |
| 8 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 9 | She was the chairman of the Forest of Arden Young Conservatives which she had joined three years previously at her mother 's prompting . |
| 10 | Norman Baillie-Stewart had suffered three years of bureaucratic delay while his application was passed from one office to another and back again . |
| 11 | ‘ Whatever S.B. can not do , ’ Tom Jones had written three years earlier , ‘ he can speak a funeral oration . ’ |
| 12 | She looked forty but must have been younger , and was dressed entirely in black — for her brother who had died three years ago , they said . |
| 13 | Francis , Daniel 's son , who was probably involved , had died three years earlier . |
| 14 | Guntram had died three years earlier and , according to the seventh-century chronicler Fredegar , Sigibert 's son , Childebert II ( 575 – 96 ) took over his kingdom , thus uniting what had been the kingdom of Orléans , but which came to be known as the kingdom of Burgundy , with that of Rheims , or Austrasia . |
| 15 | Significantly , this is the very language which Urban II had used three years earlier with regard to homage by priests to laymen : the hands , he had declared , in which Christ 's Body was made in the Eucharist were defiled by having been enclosed in the bloody hands of laymen . |
| 16 | He had spent three years building on the excellent co-operation between the Bureau and the Yard that he had inherited from Darrell Mills . |
| 17 | In addition to his studies in Cambridge and London he had spent three years at Edinburgh and one in the University of Glasgow . |
| 18 | Dr Whelan had spent three years at the Chester Beatty and had devoted herself to a detailed study of this particular Qur'an . |
| 19 | I had spent three years researching contemporary mysticism , and it was through John Michel , a colleague of mine who was an authority on Druid mythology and the ancient sites of Britain , that I first met Ringo . |
| 20 | Before that , I had spent three years as an education officer at Marwell Zoo Park , followed by several months as a wildlife officer at Lilongwe Nature Sanctuary in Malawi . |
| 21 | There was to be an additional consultation with the two judges which would take place after the prisoner had served three years of his sentence , so that the Secretary of State could receive at that stage their advice on the total period which should be served to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
| 22 | What had happened three years ago to frighten the Constable so much ? |
| 23 | It had taken three years for the committee , under the chairmanship of Lord Kilbrandon , to gather and consider evidence from a large number of bodies already dealing with child offenders and child neglect . |
| 24 | But he had taken three years to get there . |
| 25 | The chains supporting the deck of timber are made of wrought-iron links which Brown had patented three years earlier . |
| 26 | When the heir to the Spencer earldom got married three years ago , Guppy was his best man . |
| 27 | The course , intended to occupy three years , was manifestly beyond the power of one single professor , no matter how well qualified . |