Example sentences of "took three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father spun round , took three steps towards me and smacked me on the ear . |
| 2 | He took three audacious fours off an over from Hemmings , and the loss of Vengsarkar , flicking at one of Fraser 's worst deliveries , did nothing to sober him up . |
| 3 | They took 45 per cent of the vote , and took three seats , against one previously . |
| 4 | It took three years , and the man was backed every inch of the way by his union . |
| 5 | One stretch took three overnights where the great plan allowed just one . |
| 6 | I won the race , I took three points from McLaren and from Ayrton Senna . ’ |
| 7 | Zampolli summed up the curiously optimistic mood the industry found itself in , post-war , at Geneva : ‘ You know , ’ he said , ‘ during the war I took three orders for the car . |
| 8 | Austria 's Beate Reinstadler took three hours 15 minutes to beat the qualifier Tracy Moreton , of Australia , 5-7 , 7-5 , 7-5 . |
| 9 | In one spell in the last session the Sri Lankans took three wickets for eight runs . |
| 10 | Then , leading 12-4 , Hall took three points running for a convincing victory . |
| 11 | Eventually , leading 12-4 , Hall took three points running for a convincing victory . |
| 12 | Australia , who had set Sri Lanka 522 to win after declaring their second innings at 513 for five , appeared to be coasting home when they took three wickets before lunch to reduce the touring side to 208 for six . |
| 13 | It took three years to build , starting in 1785 . |
| 14 | In fact , I took three — I figured this would give me some insurance — then retired to a new seat to watch the board . |
| 15 | It took three hours to dig them out , and it was no fun . |
| 16 | It took three hours to get in character every morning and another three to get out at night . ’ |
| 17 | The whole peace-making took three days . |
| 18 | Only the 16th caught him out as he took three putts for his only bogey . |
| 19 | A possible chance of an eagle , or certainly a birdie , went begging at the 13th , where he took three to get down from nowhere but from then on he became a different player . |
| 20 | From there , he was bunkered by the green and took three more to hole out . |
| 21 | To complete the portrait took three sittings and each time , to Indenbaum 's surprise , Modigliani turned up clean-shaven and well-groomed , and behaved in a modest , almost shy manner . |
| 22 | It took three pints of home brew , each , before we stopped scratching . |
| 23 | The SPS will probably never be attempted but its theoretical viability is suggested by the fact that NASA took three years and spent $16 million on assessing the concept . |
| 24 | Commenced in 1898 the line took three years to build and finally was opened in May 1901 . |
| 25 | The other poem which Coleridge wrote during his retreat , and the circumstances of its composition , have entered the mythology of English literary history : while staying at the Culbone farmhouse he took three grains of opium to relieve what he variously described as ‘ a dysentery ’ or ‘ a slight indisposition ’ , and in the deep reverie which followed composed two or three hundred lines of poetry ‘ without any sensation of consciousness of effort ’ . |
| 26 | So I put away my little brown bottle of herbal remedies , turned my back upon much I had learned at the Centre , and before leaving for Hungary and all that forbidden goulash , took three quite definite steps . |
| 27 | But , the report took three years to publish because of what the unit calls ‘ political discussions ’ . |
| 28 | Kelly ( 4.4 ) looked at it and silently counted the three red beads , took three out of the box and threaded them ; the same with the green beads . |
| 29 | It took three and a half months and I was just wondering about it the whole time and I thought , ‘ Man , it 's either going to be so good that I 'm never going to want to play another guitar , or it 's going to suck . |
| 30 | We took three Hairflair readers along to the Schwarzkopf London Academy to try these new professional products — the results were stunning ! |