Example sentences of "[vb past] it three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Hardly able to hold the putter , he then knocked it three feet past ! ’ |
| 4 | He then knocked it three feet past ! |
| 5 | Whilst others were only allowed to keep the night watch once each week , Nicholas undertook it three times . |
| 6 | He repeated it three times , and with greater enthusiasm , in 1852 than in 1848 and 1851 . |
| 7 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 8 | Capitol Plastics of Bowling Green , Ohio , reckons that it took it three years , $200,000 of investment and meetings wit several hundred people to win its first order ( worth a little over $200 ) from Honda 's plant in Marysville , Ohio . |
| 9 | John Griffin , from St John 's AC in County Kerry and Connie Kelly from Blackrock AC , both made it three wins in a row , clocking 48:17 and 57:32 respectively . |
| 10 | SCOTLAND made it three wins on the trot in the Home International Indoor Championships in Swansea yesterday despite losing out in their final fixture with England , 106-113 . |
| 11 | Former Golden Gloves amateur Shea Neary made it three wins out of three ( all inside the distance ) since he turned professional by beating Sheffield lightweight Jason Barker . |
| 12 | Debut winger , Innes Gray , scored two tries in three minutes as Ulster took control in the final quarter , and flanker Kevin McKee made it three tries in five minutes . |
| 13 | Pete Sivell ( Avon Angling ) made it three frame places in successive matches with 8–13–0 for third . |
| 14 | Tony Jarrett , who grabbed the bronze in Tokyo after Jackson 's late withdrawal , was a smooth-looking second behind America 's Tony Dees , and Hughie Teape made it three Brits in the semis as a fastest loser . |
| 15 | Jinny read it three times . |
| 16 | He read it three times , laid it down carefully on the desk , smoothed it out and looked across at the Chairman . |
| 17 | yeah yeah what did you say they did it three times ? |
| 18 | Maidstone won it three minutes later when on-loan Ian Ironside from Middlesbrough pushed a strong Stebbing shot into the air and Rob Painter nodded home the loose ball . |
| 19 | While the report was acknowledging considerable dieback , the press release which accompanied it three days before Christmas ( a traditional moment for government departments to ‘ bury ’ embarrassing statistics ) spoke only of ‘ no sign … of the forest decline which is of such great concern in central Europe ’ . |
| 20 | I said it three times , ’ she said . |
| 21 | ‘ You said it three times ? ’ |
| 22 | What is equally undeniable is Die Auferstehung 's status as a masterwork ( Mozart conducted it three times in 1788 , expressing no small amount of enthusiasm ) , and this recording 's fine presentation of the piece , worthy to stand beside Hermann Max 's [ see my review of JS Bach 's Magnificat below — Ed. ] splendid Capriccio recording ( coupled with . |