Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] three [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he groggily came round he found himself surrounded by three youths he thought were trying to help him . |
| 2 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 3 | We are expecting him back on Monday — but if he 's only staying for three days it 's a pointless exercise . |
| 4 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 5 | So you 're saying after three months you want to review it . |
| 6 | Stainforth 's success rests on three qualities he possesses in abundance . |
| 7 | Still , I 'd always tried hard to be a good golfer , and playing off three handicap I knew would stand me in good stead . |
| 8 | I think after three days they 've er worn out their welcome . |
| 9 | If the pain does not settle within three months it will become chronic in the vast majority ( 87% ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |