Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition I recovered three William III sixpences that came up from a depth of between 9 to 10 inches . |
| 2 | In a side which included three players under 20 , it was 19-year-old David Hagan who stole the points and the glory , with a brilliant goal in a match which saw Hibs offer little resistance . |
| 3 | Several people were embarking also into the car behind dining car , into the car which comprised three bedrooms , a bar , a large lounge area and an upstairs glass-domed observation deck , the whole lot known , I 'd discovered , a the dome car . |
| 4 | The shooting itself caused three days of riots ; and although a racially mixed jury found Mr Lozano guilty of manslaughter shortly afterwards , an appeals court threw out the verdict because it thought the jury had been intimidated by the unrest . |
| 5 | It was a it was a very big bakery it had three floors and on the bottom floor was that 's where they done the bread and rolls . |
| 6 | The selectors have only left one rink intact from last year — Billy Montgomery ( Falls ) , Cecil Worthington ( Knock ) , David Gardiner ( Belmont ) and Seamus Elliman ( Falls ) — a rink which had three wins last season . |
| 7 | I use the phrase hypocritical exhortation , because I know Jim is sitting there with a tape recorder and taking note of all the words we are using today our dictionary so I think the phrase hypocritical exhortation I said three times in relation |
| 8 | Buzaglo is the Gibraltar World Cup cricketer who cracked three goals in Woking 's shock 4-2 win at West Brom nearly two years ago . |
| 9 | Then , a youngster who stole three cars would go to a young offenders institution for one and a half years . |
| 10 | On the morrow we added three mules ( and their muleteers ) : Llacen , a wizened old man , Hussein , a lively character , and young Omar , all tousled hair and grin , who made the entire trip in flip flops ! |
| 11 | After Bromsgrove they lost three games in a row , so it was important to get back to winning , against St Albans last Saturday then Netley 3-0 . |
| 12 | After Bromsgrove they lost three games in a row , so it was important to get back to winning , against St Albans last Saturday , then Netley 3-0 . |
| 13 | By his first marriage he had three sons ( the youngest of whom died in infancy ) , and by the second one son and four daughters . |
| 14 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 15 | Mr Tsongas , a pro-business liberal , argued that to restart the campaign he abandoned three weeks ago for lack of funds would only make him a spoiler . |
| 16 | I 'm not forgetting Ashenden , ’ replied Morse quietly , as taking out his Parker pen he wrote three d.o.b.s on a table napkin : |
| 17 | Zampolli summed up the curiously optimistic mood the industry found itself in , post-war , at Geneva : ‘ You know , ’ he said , ‘ during the war I took three orders for the car . |
| 18 | At the National Gallery 's new sumptuous shop in the Sainsbury Wing I recorded three books on Gwen John ( and none on Augustus , her brother ) , two on Artemisia Gentileschi ( one being the very scholarly and feminist monograph by Mary D Garrard , published by Princeton University Press , now in paperback ) , one book on Rosalba Carriera , and most surprisingly given the feminist industry around this artist , only one on Mary Cassatt . |
| 19 | At this point I did three things . |
| 20 | In addition it debarred from newspaper ownership any media group which owned three television channels ( as did the national television company Radiotelevisione Italiana — RAI — and the Fininvest company owned by Italy 's leading media magnate Silvio Berlusconi ) . |
| 21 | She was the only child in her town who had three medals . |
| 22 | The other poem which Coleridge wrote during his retreat , and the circumstances of its composition , have entered the mythology of English literary history : while staying at the Culbone farmhouse he took three grains of opium to relieve what he variously described as ‘ a dysentery ’ or ‘ a slight indisposition ’ , and in the deep reverie which followed composed two or three hundred lines of poetry ‘ without any sensation of consciousness of effort ’ . |
| 23 | The reports are debated in the House and we follow the practice of the Select Committee on Procedure which recommended three days for such reports . |
| 24 | Martine was a middle-aged married woman , her husband a banker who spent three days of every week in Luxembourg , leaving her time to philander . |
| 25 | In the beginning we had three announcers — Sid Boyling , whose rich round voice went down well with our listeners , Louis Bourgeois , a gentle and studious young man with noticeable literary talent , and Bob MacLean , the very steady and well-spoken son of a senior CPR official . |
| 26 | On one memorable day they made three captures , with Mike rushing exhausted around the forest trying to keep up . |
| 27 | The man has been a thorn in our side since the day he arrived three weeks ago . |
| 28 | By his first wife he had three sons and three daughters . |
| 29 | Last week I received three letters from her all addressed to the Commando area in the South of England and forwarded to Normandy . |
| 30 | According to a shamefaced Treasurer of the India Club : ‘ One night last week I attended three parties one after the other . |