Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 3 | He further conquered her by ensuring she fell in love with him , and she bore him three sons . |
| 4 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 5 | The defending lawyer told magistrate Terence Maher that Long , 48 , turned to the bottle after his wife divorced him three years ago . |
| 6 | It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae . |
| 7 | No if he cost him three X , what 's he gon na sell them for ? |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 10 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |
| 11 | When Matthew and I adopted you three years ago , we decided to look after you as well as we could . |
| 12 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 13 | I got you three quarters . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Once , in Colin 's absence , I showed him three pictures which he was considering : a portrait by Veronese ; another by Tintoretto and the centre panel of an altarpiece by Girolamo di Benvenuto . |
| 17 | ‘ During Nick Faldo 's Open in 1990 , we mowed it three times a day , ’ Woods would tell me later , touring the course in his Land Rover . |
| 18 | Team secretary David Morris said : ‘ Ian only joined us three weeks ago because he had discipline problems at his last club . |
| 19 | Hardly able to hold the putter , he then knocked it three feet past ! ’ |
| 20 | He then knocked it three feet past ! |
| 21 | The owners of Rowlands Agricultural Contractors says Lord Beaverbrook employed them three months ago , and a bill for four hundred pounds is still unpaid . |
| 22 | Typically the punter would say : " One of your crew rang me three months ago . |
| 23 | ‘ I lost him three days ago and — ‘ |
| 24 | Whilst others were only allowed to keep the night watch once each week , Nicholas undertook it three times . |
| 25 | He repeated it three times , and with greater enthusiasm , in 1852 than in 1848 and 1851 . |
| 26 | Mr Henderson asked him three times if he had any idea what a kidney was for . |
| 27 | Mr Henderson asked him three times if he had any idea what a kidney was for . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |