Example sentences of "[noun] had [been] [verb] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters admitted being behind the attack on the Sinn Fein advice centre in Lepper Street in the republican New Lodge area of north Belfast , saying the aim had been to murder three members of the party . |
| 2 | If those resources had been given three or four years ago , we would not have the long delays that lead to so much misery , and the small number of non-genuine asylum seekers would not be here for longer than we would all want . |
| 3 | It was understood that the UK had been guaranteed three of the quota of 15 tests authorized by Congress over the next three years under new test-ban legislation passed in September [ see p. 39121 ] . |
| 4 | The paper claimed Johnson had been tested three times in six days in mid-January , and that at least one of the tests was positive for abnormally high testosterone levels . |
| 5 | Gerald Crawford , spokesman for the FCC , rejected the criticism , saying procedures had been changed three years ago to make sure confiscated nets were not passed back to poachers . |
| 6 | The steadings had been built three sides of a square , with the fourth side open to the road . |
| 7 | All these years then , or for some of them , Rufus had been living three or four miles from him . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm now going through what I experienced at Rosyth , except that Eastern Electricity had been privatised three years before I joined whereas the dockyard was contractorised only a month before . ’ |
| 9 | Without a photo-pass hanging from his left lapel , he was uncomfortably conspicuous ; his identity had been checked three times since Amaranth had dropped him . |