Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stane Street , from London to Chichester , has along it three settlements , Hardham , Alfoldean and Ewell . |
| 2 | The guard shouted to him three times but he took no notice at all . |
| 3 | After a while , people start telephoning and saying , " My name is Mr Lambert , I was interviewed by you three weeks ago , and I have n't heard anything yet . |
| 4 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
| 5 | The new Emperor called for lights , examined the face , then thrust at it three times with a sword . |
| 6 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 7 | No I look after them three days a week . |
| 8 | Glenn Hoddle says they they do n't do things easily … they were the best footballing side on the day and its justice for what happened to them three years ago |
| 9 | It finished for me three years ago . |
| 10 | He fires at it three times to try and open it , but without success . |
| 11 | IN THE Domesday Book Sedgebrook is valued at £8 , having with it three mills , sixty acres of meadow , and land for nine plough teams . |
| 12 | It could n't be Dr Kent ; she hardly knew him , she 'd only spoken to him three times , and then briefly . |
| 13 | She had already danced with him three times . |
| 14 | The FISA president said the sanction against Mansell was for this breach of security rules and had nothing to do with his failure to stop after a black flag was waved at him three times . |
| 15 | But I think conductors would not be the answer because what happens when the driver is smoking as has happened to me three times in three weeks . |
| 16 | In particular it is Paul 's prayer that the Spirit would reveal to them three things . |
| 17 | The route the Phillips had been asked to consider had already been put to them three times and was the same as the existing one , he said . |
| 18 | I do n't believe in the God the parson used to present to us three times on a Sunday . ’ |
| 19 | But they did carry an extra two-gallon can , and had to resort to it three times . |
| 20 | Soldiers were required to bring with them three months ' supply of provisions , arms , armour and tools for entrenching and other tasks . |