Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | June 1873 , the Prince and Princess of Wales held a garden party there , at which Queen Victoria , also the Shah of Persia , were present , and the list of guests was so long that it filled three columns of the Times . |
| 2 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 3 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 4 | and it left three halves of the residual estate . |
| 5 | And it rang three times every night for three weeks … to take their temperature . |
| 6 | Built on the banks of the Tyne and opened in 1873 , it had been extended in 1893 until it stood three storeys high , 609 ft. long and 330 ft. wide . |
| 7 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 8 | A SNOOTY hospice lost a £1,250 gift for its sick kids — because it banned three bikers . |
| 9 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 10 | The police poured out to stop them , though it took three nights before the disturbances began to die down . |
| 11 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
| 12 | Judging by the front of it , the house was quite large , for it showed three windows each side of the front door , the same above them , and a row of small windows jutting out from the roof . |