Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walk through the Freemantle Copse , take the left fork of the bridleway and cross three fields to reach the drive of Appuldurcome House . |
| 2 | He turned in his seat to raise his bound ankles over his girlfriend and kicked three times to free her door . |
| 3 | On the count of ten , the chosen child opens his eyes and has three chances to guess who is holding the bell behind his back . |
| 4 | Tried on 15 May , he was found guilty of murder and executed three days later in London . |
| 5 | The tournament , organised by Porthmadog FC , had attracted a total of 20 entries and lasted three weeks with a battery of games at The Traeth . |
| 6 | As part of an informal agreement between the two companies Kew will sell FlexArray alongside its systems integration solutions and to find three Unix and Novell NetWare-based distributors by January 1993 . |
| 7 | He is married to Andrea and has three children , Diane , Stephen and Sarah , and one grandson . |
| 8 | Colin , 32 , and Geoffrey Newton , 26 , both of Myddleton Lane , Winwick , Warrington , admitted applying false trade descriptions to three cars and supplying three others with false trade descriptions . |
| 9 | Afterwards he went to the United States and obtained three degrees , the most prestigious being a doctorate from Princeton awarded in 1910 . |
| 10 | She went to shooting practice and scored three bullseyes in succession and felt a lot better . |
| 11 | The railway is open on Sundays throughout the year , Saturdays in the Spring and daily during the summer months and boasts three locomotives Lorna Doone , Yeo Valley and Exe Valley . |
| 12 | At the same time thousands of angry and grieving demonstrators defied the state of emergency and gathered outside the Azerbaijan Supreme Soviet building , where the Presidium President , Elmira Kafarova , issued a statement denouncing the military action and declared three days of national mourning . |
| 13 | In his eagerness to escape the encroaching flames , he worked the action and fired three times in rapid succession . |
| 14 | Tissue specimens were then fixed with periodate-lysine-2% paraformaldehyde for six hours at 4°C and washed three times with increasing concentrations of sucrose ( 10 , 15 , and 20% ) . |
| 15 | After going around edge of large bay ( ignoring path descending to beach ) , path keeps to edge of fields on seaward side and crosses three stiles ; |
| 16 | The results of the six sessions of contemporary art which took place on 5 , 6 and 7 May and launched three weeks of intensive auction activity in New York , were difficult to predict and , even when they were known , provided little evidence about the current state of the market . |
| 17 | Paul bludgeoned 28-year-old graduate John Lavender after drinking six pints of lager and smoking three cannabis joints . |
| 18 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 19 | He left in 1803 without taking a degree and spent three years in a Wiltshire militia regiment . |
| 20 | Then he sent some pips from Scotland and arrived three days later to kill John 's father . |
| 21 | After dropping out of RADA he joined the RAF in the war , was shot down in a bombing mission over Denmark and spent three years in a Polish PoW camp . |
| 22 | Bear right at the fork to cross Spring Gill Beck and cross three grass fields . |
| 23 | She warmed yesterdays bread and cooked three eggs and laid a tray and took the lot upstairs , meaning to return with coals for Mr Landor 's fire as soon as he was placated with the food . |
| 24 | Willie squatted down in front of the shelves and chose three books . |
| 25 | A Middlesbrough schoolboy ran away from home and spent three nights sleeping rough when he opened his parents ' quarterly phone bill and found his conversations had sent it soaring to over six times its usual amount . |
| 26 | After Lewis had rung off , Morse sat at his desk and smoked three Dunhill International cigarettes one after the other . |
| 27 | The delimited field thus consists of agents and institutions and involves three types of struggle — those between ‘ makers ’ of art ( between , say , makers of consecrated art , makers of avant-garde , heretical art , and makers of ‘ middle brow ’ art ( ‘ art moyen ’ ) such as photography , cinema , and jazz , which also is struggling for consecration by the institutions ) , those between makers and ‘ marketers ’ ( in essence the institutions ) , and those between marketers . |
| 28 | A decree creating nine new states and renaming three others was promulgated on Sept. 4 . |
| 29 | Wycombe will make up their game in hand at Moss Lane this afternoon and go three points in front if they beat struggling Altrincham . |
| 30 | The 1,000lb bomb in Lurgan reduced the town centre to rubble , causing millions of pounds worth of damage and injuring three policemen . |