Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By his first marriage he had three sons ( the youngest of whom died in infancy ) , and by the second one son and four daughters . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At this point I did three things . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On one memorable day they made three captures , with Mike rushing exhausted around the forest trying to keep up . |
| 17 | The man has been a thorn in our side since the day he arrived three weeks ago . |
| 18 | By his first wife he had three sons and three daughters . |
| 19 | Last week I received three letters from her all addressed to the Commando area in the South of England and forwarded to Normandy . |
| 20 | According to a shamefaced Treasurer of the India Club : ‘ One night last week I attended three parties one after the other . |
| 21 | Well only one week you paid three pound , come off it . |
| 22 | From our patio we saw three streaks of red shoot towards Los Rios — a US civilian area . |
| 23 | After gaining a doctorate in Chemical Engineering he spent three years lecturing at University College , Swansea and then , in 1967 , he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bradford University . |
| 24 | ‘ The man I knew three years ago would never have stood serving sausages to other people . |
| 25 | As for the man you knew three years ago — he is no longer around . |
| 26 | Before yesterday 's operation she spent three days in a deep coma as a result of liver failure . |
| 27 | Within two hours of the Chancellor 's message we took three orders for new BMW 's . |
| 28 | Chased by police vehicles and a helicopter it rammed three cars as it careered down the wrong side of city centre roads . |
| 29 | That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him . |
| 30 | Gray had told the board he needed three years to build a top side . |