Example sentences of "[vb past] i three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 2 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 3 | The proctologist handed me three envelopes , one addressed to each of us , then told me that if I ever had piles I could rely on him to cut them out for cost . |
| 4 | The bonus for me was that the money was so much better than Whiteleys , Instead of getting 36 bob for Thursday evening and all day Saturday , Malcolm paid me three pounds 10 shillings — almost twice as much — for the Saturday only . |
| 5 | Typically the punter would say : " One of your crew rang me three months ago . |
| 6 | ‘ It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it . |
| 7 | THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing . |
| 8 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 9 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 10 | It took me three months to lose the weight , but I felt so well on the programme and was never hungry . |
| 11 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 12 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 13 | It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible . |
| 14 | you see Sister makes all these arrangements , it 's she who does so many of the arrangements , she has made the arrangements about there being no coffee , several people have come to me and said I do n't know why you 've got to stop coffee because we can always go over and have lunch anyway , you know , er after the coffee , but Jean came to me she said look I 'm giving you this , and she gave me three pounds , she said I would much rather that was put into this , there your charity thing than take it across the hall , she said my Margaret wo n't go over there any more , because they , they say , you know , put in for your lunch what it would cost |
| 15 | Rosalind said it must go tonight , and she gave me three pence for a lolly to stamp it and post it . ’ |
| 16 | She said she gave me three mugs |
| 17 | He gave me three games — which I did n't think was a fair chance . |
| 18 | For dinner they gave me three kinds of meat — a square of beef , a triangle of chicken and a circle of lamb . |
| 19 | I should say that you should think , well those of us that are healthy any way , we should be glad that our body 's have stood us this length of time and have allowed us to come here to this programme and to take part in it , I 'm certainly delighted that mine 's a , gave me three children , nothing to complain about . |
| 20 | They bought me three years ago when I got dropped out of Mars-U before my geology finals . |
| 21 | I got a bottle of gin a bloke bought me three years ago . |