Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right okay if it was X cubed that would have given me three times too much |
| 2 | He 's given me three dates when he 'd be delighted to meet us erm Friday the thirtieth of April , four of May or fifth of May , but other dates a as necessary . |
| 3 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 4 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 5 | he says the toilet rolls the soft ones have dropped down , cos I get the soft Kleenex ones , everybody 's complaining about and he said they 'd dropped them three pound , is it twenty nine ? , to two eighty nine now |
| 6 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 7 | I 've seen them three times this season so I know how tough it 's going to be . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If I 'd met you three years ago , ’ he told her harshly , ‘ maybe things would have been different . |
| 9 | Donar began the final the under dog — Wilkinson had defeated him three weeks in a row with relative ease . |
| 10 | Yeah and we wound , re-wound the tape and er looked for the number and it 's the same number , I 've done it three times and I got this other bloke and I went right through it once and it says |
| 11 | I 've seen it three times now . |
| 12 | Gran had noticed it three evenings ago , when they were getting the breakfast things ready , and had pushed it behind one of the geraniums as if she did n't like the sight of it . |
| 13 | unc The last exercise has taught you three things : |
| 14 | Moderator and friends let me say first of all that I 'm glad to be able to make these speeches on behalf of the member churches of and I 'd like to also on , particularly on behalf of the England and Wales , though I did realise having said that that you have a minister of the University of Penryth is also a member of this Synod , and therefore , you 've got me three things ! |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I suppose you 've told them three times as much as you 've told me , ’ said Connon from the door . |
| 16 | No well they 've , I 've had them three days look . |
| 17 | They say well we 've offered you three blocks and you 've turned them all down and you say well yes but you 've offered us blocks not not |
| 18 | Yet the bowler could have had him three times , two sixes just clearing the fielder and a top edge over the wicket-keeper falling harmlessly . |
| 19 | and I 've had it three year . |
| 20 | I 've had it three years . |
| 21 | I 'd bought it three minutes later . |
| 22 | And I will have a piece of tape which says , ‘ Well yes of course you would expect the Chairman of the County Council to get food poisoning in this particular restaurant because we have prosecuted him three times . |
| 23 | Fry feared the worst when he arrived for training yesterday morning to find his wife had called him three times already . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've known him three years and he was always flush . |
| 25 | Col James Bradshaw said Alan Jackson , who mysteriously vanished from his shop in Barnard Castle town centre , had given him three cheques but all had bounced . |
| 26 | I 've heard it three times now . |
| 27 | Well I 've left you three tapes out to take with you . |
| 28 | His latest project ‘ The Duchess of Sutherland ’ , which is a copy of the full size engines and has so far taken him three years to build is just one of the engines which can be seen . |
| 29 | It 's taken him three years to organise the race , and select the crews . |
| 30 | He had looked at one , years ago , but it had taken him three days to read it , carefully , from cover to cover , by which time he realized that , if he was going to do the thing at all conscientiously , he would never be abreast of current developments . |