Example sentences of "[prep] three [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three hours we looked for land . |
| 2 | After three weeks she complained of itching and blood chemistry showed cholestasis . |
| 3 | When Vicky came out after three weeks she confirmed that fear . |
| 4 | After three weeks I broached the subject . |
| 5 | Curran referred later to his ‘ Irish birth without an Irish upbringing ’ , since after three weeks he left Dublin for Aberdeen , his mother 's native home . |
| 6 | I I was very keen er when I had my daughter erm I was quite happy about it and I I I used them , then after three years I did n't use them . |
| 7 | After three years he had saved up enough money to travel to Melbourne where he stayed with his uncle . |
| 8 | After three years he moved to a supervisory grade , and in 1960 to barley drying in the ‘ new maltings ’ , known as No. 1 Maltings . |
| 9 | After three days I moved the decorations around and removed the divider . |
| 10 | After three days I skipped a lesson and came to see you . |
| 11 | After three days she rang to say she was ‘ better ’ . ! |
| 12 | After three days he had limped home , crippled by blisters . |
| 13 | He took lots of notes and after three days he said , ‘ Raymond , I want to give you a check . |
| 14 | Anxious not to offend the tsar further , he hesitated ; after three days he gave way , went to Philippopolis and the union of the southern and northern Bulgars was proclaimed . |
| 15 | After three months he had written most of this work and was well enough to return to his beloved Kidderminster . |
| 16 | These past three years he had grown sullen and morose , keeping himself at a distance , always watching her , silently blaming her for Maisie 's tragic death . |
| 17 | That is the first of three tasks he had been picked to do to pave the way for Italy 's first post-reform elections . |
| 18 | Being on soft peat land , digging was easy and at a depth of three feet we found a two inch cylindrical piece of metal . |
| 19 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 20 | Through a string of three rooms they came close to the Ballroom ; only an ante-room divided them from it . |
| 21 | At the end of three days he went to his grandfather , and said , " Grandfather , I am going to climb the mountain and find a place where I can get some peace and quiet . |
| 22 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |
| 23 | This is one that 's been , I 've had appointment and for three times I 'd had to cancel it . |
| 24 | For three hours we worked and drank , worked and ate , worked and packed . |
| 25 | For three years they had neither met nor spoken . |
| 26 | They chose a spot by a river , on the side of a mountain , they called three hundred workmen together , and for three years they toiled at building the city . |
| 27 | Until recently her job was there , too — for three years she worked as a shop assistant in the hosiery department of the massive Neiman Marcus store — but then the success of Inner City allowed her to leave . |
| 28 | For three years I played at will . |
| 29 | For three years I consoled myself with the fact that one minute he was laughing and joking the next it was over . ’ |
| 30 | For three years he had been with Jesus and heard his teaching — that he was bound to suffer , to die and to be raised from the dead . |