Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Built on the banks of the Tyne and opened in 1873 , it had been extended in 1893 until it stood three storeys high , 609 ft. long and 330 ft. wide . |
| 2 | A SNOOTY hospice lost a £1,250 gift for its sick kids — because it banned three bikers . |
| 3 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 4 | The police poured out to stop them , though it took three nights before the disturbances began to die down . |
| 5 | Pascal 's insistence that rigorous , self-searching thought is the basis of morality needs as much hammering home now as it did three centuries ago . |
| 6 | Judging by the front of it , the house was quite large , for it showed three windows each side of the front door , the same above them , and a row of small windows jutting out from the roof . |