Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 2 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
| 3 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
| 4 | I worked for three years as a school counsellor in South Brompton , and the majority of the children who came my way were children who had some degree of behavioural difficulty or emotional disturbance . |
| 5 | Cos er San Sandra agreed in the end she said oh I said you can do it on your own , you can have the nine quid if you like yourself I said but I 'm not coming with you I said for three hours working for somebody who 's twenty five . |
| 6 | I waited for three buses to go past before I got on to one . |
| 7 | However , after being in the ‘ Rena ’ for a week , I became seriously ill with septicaemia and was moved to St. Peter 's Hospital , where I stayed for three weeks . |
| 8 | Candles were brought to the tables and any mishaps in the food or service were blamed on the lack of power , which lasted for three hours . |
| 9 | During the sittings , which lasted for three afternoons , he was drinking grappa and reciting Dante . |
| 10 | The incident sparked off a riot which lasted for three days [ see p. 37081 ] , and racial tension had been high during the trial . |
| 11 | What 's in the Box ? was one of the greatest successes of 1953 , and in 1960 Steen 's purchase of the King 's Theatre off Shaftesbury Avenue heralded a string of commercial triumphs , including One Thing After Another , which ran for three years , and , currently , Sex of One and Half a Dozen of the Other . |
| 12 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 14 | Mike said : ‘ She breathed for three minutes , giving us hope she would one day be able to breathe for herself . |
| 15 | Mike said : ‘ She breathed for three minutes , giving us hope she would one day be able to breathe for herself . |
| 16 | The 73-year-old spinster , who worked for three generations of the same family for 56 years , was dragged 30 yards before falling under the giant wheels . |
| 17 | Previously , she worked for three months on a Youth Training Scheme after leaving Castlehead High School . |
| 18 | She waited for three rings , but she knew that Hugh would n't pick up a machine that might buzz and shout ‘ Pronto ! ’ at him . |
| 19 | ‘ If the country were governed from here , we 'd be far better off , ’ says a Tory peer who sat for three decades in the Commons . |
| 20 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 21 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 22 | We hid for three days and nights with nothing to eat . |
| 23 | We dated for three months . |
| 24 | We waited for three hours and did not move . |
| 25 | We stayed for three days , and then we took the night boat to Belgium , and arrived at a tall , fine school building in the centre of Brussels . |
| 26 | He and Danny Kirwan were sort of ‘ kidnapped ’ after a gig by this young Munich ‘ jet set ’ crowd ; they disappeared for three days and when they came back that was it . |
| 27 | Ten Scottish National Party members invaded a room on the first floor of the building which they occupied for three hours before being evicted by security guards . |
| 28 | There was the afternoon when he drove out to the Crumbles and they slept for three hours , the wind pushing at the side of the car like a crowd . |
| 29 | So greatly did they enjoy the celebrations that they stayed for three days . |
| 30 | It burned for three days . |