Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] three [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham . |
| 2 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 3 | For about three weeks I sat constantly for about four hours a day with Dawn perched on my fist , watching TV or listening to the radio , quietly trying to make it seem as if this were the most natural thing in the world for a boy and his owl to be doing . |
| 4 | ‘ In only three hours I will be delivering the most difficult speech of my life . |
| 5 | In only three days I shall be free to leave for Israel . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We were granted ownership of the building in March and in just three months we have been able to get it ready . ’ |
| 7 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
| 8 | For over three hours we talked and talked and still neither brother had returned to the subject that lay foremost in our minds . |
| 9 | There were at least three Senators he could count on for verbal support , if nothing more . |