Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the [num ord] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | All 12 runners , including defending Sprint champion Sheikh Albadou , Rodrigo De Triano , Dr Devious and Selkirk , failed to reach the first three . |
| 2 | He had added the last three words with the same morose carelessness with which he had decried the car dealers ' convention , but he offered no elucidation as to what the words meant . |
| 3 | Duroc had spent the last three months in France , dealing with the business of the Violent Tendency for Freedom . |
| 4 | It was the first time since 1921 that England had lost the first three Tests of a home rubber . |
| 5 | They had booked a Toyota camper van and told the hire company they intended spending the next three weeks touring New Zealand . |