Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] three [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent three months knitting you a pair of bed-socks . |
| 2 | ‘ I spent three months working out in the gym and having voice therapy , ’ O'Donnell says . |
| 3 | I spent three days plucking up the courage . |
| 4 | ECHO FROM THE PAST In 1980 Marlies and I spent three days travelling with Senator Edward Kennedy in his motorcade during the presidential primary campaign . |
| 5 | In comparison , U.S. foundations and corporations gave a total of around $1 million , with the biggest boost from the National Endowment for the Arts , which awarded three grants totalling $210,000 . |
| 6 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 7 | And then three dice , electronic dice are thrown , and you get three numbers showing up on the screen . |
| 8 | Odette found she lost three stone keeping busy , then to her dismay found she was pregnant again . |
| 9 | To estimate the proportion of oil workers needed to influence the incidence of childhood leukaemia in a rural population , we created three categories containing different proportions of oil workers but with similar populations of children . |
| 10 | On 22 June , 1980 , I gave Bernie lunch at the Travellers Club , and we spent three hours recalling the Good Old Days of radio broadcasting with the CBC in Canada . |
| 11 | At Loreto , we spent three days exploring the network of muddy paths through the forest around the village , crossing small streams on logs and one larger river on a suspension bridge which consisted of four rusting steel cables and a few loose planks . |
| 12 | On the last lap , we watched three cars coming towards the chequered flag almost side by side : Andretti , Depailler and Hunt . |
| 13 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 14 | We had three coaches travelling , sometimes four . |
| 15 | We 've recently used the front room as a lounge so we have three residents eating in there , three to four eating in one of the other lounges . |
| 16 | They spent three months building a mock aircraft — and it nose-dived straight into the sea . |
| 17 | They saw three men pushing some steps across the tarmac . |
| 18 | In 1835 she teamed up with two other pauper girls , Eliza Johnson and Ann Yerbury , and between them they occupied three tenements belonging to Thomas Edwards on Naish 's Street . |
| 19 | taking off on Sunday will be the Oxford Products Ducati team … they 've three riders racing in the world championship round at Donington Park |
| 20 | GTE Corp signed a definitive agreement with a subsidiary of Lynch Corp for the sale of its telephone service area in Kansas on undisclosed terms : GTE put 2,300 access lines in Kansas up for sale in January , where it has three employees serving 13 exchanges in the state ; after the purchase , Lynch will have 10,750 access lines in five states . |
| 21 | As someone has said , it has three words beginning with the letter P — it is a philosophy armed with a plan and fought with passion . |
| 22 | After gaining a doctorate in Chemical Engineering he spent three years lecturing at University College , Swansea and then , in 1967 , he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bradford University . |
| 23 | He observed three youths loitering nearby , who disappeared from view as he arrived . |
| 24 | He took three wickets leaving the tourists to declare at 388 for five at tea . |
| 25 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |