Example sentences of "[prep] the three [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made a little oatmeal porridge for Enoch , and for the three adults she cooked bacon and potatoes , in the iron pan they had brought from home , and used some of the water ration to make tea . |
| 2 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |
| 3 | Although Félix slept more soundly than we did — and snored and swore in his sleep — for the three nights he stayed , Jean-Claude and I could not feel comfortable about making love . |
| 4 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |
| 5 | This was despite the fact that probably the most influential piece of evidence they received during the three years they sat , the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's ( CEMWC ) updated report , Sexual Offenders and Social Punishment , recommended a universal age of consent of 17 . |
| 6 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 7 | I dunk , therefore I am The Chicago Bulls fired coach Doug Collins on Thursday , citing philosophical differences during the three years he headed the National Basketball Association club . |
| 8 | During the three years he was in charge over £300 million in foreign debts were accumulated . |
| 9 | During the three years he was at Cambridge he wrote only nine poems , for he was spending fourteen hours a day on political activities , and in March 1935 he became a full member of the Communist party of Great Britain . |
| 10 | ‘ During the three months I was in America a few years ago , it would happen again and again . |
| 11 | During the three weeks I used the machine I had no cause to doubt this . |
| 12 | So if we can hurt them or certainly gang together if you like , cos unity is strength , and between the three workforces they 'll certainly slow down production and hopefully force things . |
| 13 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 14 | ‘ What about the three goals you missed ? ’ was Chapman 's response . |
| 15 | Th this type of thing until the , after the three months we had to pass an exam . |
| 16 | Crompton and Jones carried out detailed investigations of the three institutions they studied and found strong evidence that proletarianization had taken place . |
| 17 | When she placed the paper cone by the side of the three bags she was confronted by a pair of unsmiling eyes and a voice that held condemnation : ‘ Ye 've nivvor weighed it . ’ |
| 18 | The remaining two and a half thousand , because they come in on very much slower methods , can take up to two to three hours to reach Bracknell , but by the end of the three hours we have all the information that was available at any given hour of the day . |
| 19 | Since D. viviparus is the most pathogenic of the three species it is presented in detail . |
| 20 | The nature of authority is explained by the combination of the three theses we are discussing . |
| 21 | On top of the three letters we always put the sign ( / ) which is short for the word " angle " . |
| 22 | I try to think of the three things we 'd identified for the for the fifteenth of September . |
| 23 | That will generate two out of the three things we want , that 's the contract and the cheque all right ? |
| 24 | Australia lost the Ashes in 1953 , New Zealand won one and lost one against Australia in 1974 , Australia won two of the three 1908 matches against a fully aitched England , and even West Indies lost one of the three Tests they played in 1966 with their four Hs . |
| 25 | Peter Field at the Post Office is producing 1″ of the three films you have on VHS from him . |
| 26 | In light of the potential regulatory effects of alternate expression of the three proteins it will be of interest to examine expression patterns during development or in different cell types . |
| 27 | That gives Cypress two of the three pieces it needs to complete the chipset : the 620 CPU chip and 627 cache SRAM . |
| 28 | There was no sign of the three people I was looking for , although there were a few strange faces : three or four wives with young children sent out to grass from Athens , and one or two old couples , dehydrated rentiers , who doddered in and out of the mournful lounges of the Hotel Philadelphia . |
| 29 | And then at the end of the three years you were either invited to stay an , an extra year or s you were , you were sort of er you had an invitation from some other circuit . |
| 30 | If you have heavy use of any of the three items it is likely you will buy dedicated machines — if you have an existing PC , and need these hi-tech services occasionally this could well be your next purchase . |