Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheep were turfed out of three nearby fields make temporary car parks . |
| 2 | The cavalry were drawn up in three companies , on the wings and in the centre . |
| 3 | The floods were brought on by three days of continuous torrential rains in the north which had begun on Sept. 8 , and spread quickly through parts of the Punjab and Sind , threatening sites of historic interest , engulfing thousands of villages and inundating vast acres of cropland . |
| 4 | The treatment intervals before radiotherapy are given for the patients who were followed up for three months or more while undergoing laser treatment . |
| 5 | You were allowed up to three visitors at a time and had to sit opposite them at individual tables . |
| 6 | According to Volodymyr Yavorivsky , the head of the commission , automatic safety systems were switched off on three occasions in the past year ( reputedly in order to boost power production ) . |
| 7 | This was whittled down to three for this event , including me . |
| 8 | He was propped up on three pillows , which felt strange to him . |
| 9 | ‘ I found a flea market in Holborn and was walking around for three hours . |
| 10 | But if he was to come on at three o'clock in the morning , the other man called away would n't be replaced . |
| 11 | Dismantling and removal took six months and was carried out by three men . |
| 12 | Coding was carried out by three coders , each child 's home and school observations being coded by the same person . |
| 13 | The study was carried out in three subdivisions of different police forces . |
| 14 | To investigate whether PABA was absorbed from the colon , an instillation was carried out in three patients . |
| 15 | The trial was carried out in three major centres with particular expertise in the surgery of portal hypertension and the control of variceal bleeding by endoscopic sclerotherapy . |
| 16 | Their partnership average of 69 was picked up by three of the four papers ; and the fact that 69 was inferior , among English openers , only to the average of Hobbs and Sutcliffe . |
| 17 | As it turned out , Leslie 's baby was destined to be born in England after all , for Lee was transferred back after three months . |
| 18 | The research number included on the questionnaire was made up of three parts : |
| 19 | The rest of my family was made up of three sisters — Sal , the eldest who was five and knew when she was born because it was in the middle of the night and had kept the old man awake , Grace who was three and did n't cause anyone to lose sleep , and red-headed Kitty who was eighteen months and never stopped bawling . |
| 20 | Well tha no that was n't padded that was for do n't quite know what they wanted to do with that erm but there was erm a face that was built up with three different sizes of felt , small , next size , next size up , not not much bigger each time , then you had a piece of calico a little bit bigger , you did a running thread all round the outside and pulled it so that it , lapped over the felt which you had stitched down first . |
| 21 | It was watered down to three half days . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , by late May the Armenian CP was reported to have been evicted from virtually all of its premises throughout the republic , and was operating out of three rooms in the Yerevan print works . |
| 23 | In 1921 , for example , the boys section at Bradford Park Avenue was closed down for three months after the referee had been pelted with rubbish , and in the early 1920s the fierce North London rivalries between Arsenal and Spurs flared into open street battles in which some of the more zealous fans were armed with iron bars and knives . |
| 24 | ‘ I forgot the hour , ’ he added , and when Fabia , glancing at her watch , saw that , incredibly , it was getting on for three , she realised that when Ven was working it must be that he did n't give thought to food . |
| 25 | It was set up by three sisters with funds from their family 's whisky business . |
| 26 | The old man 's chair was placed in a dormer window that was glassed in on three sides . |
| 27 | The battle was fought out in three short Parliaments which met between 1679 and 1681 , after which politics was driven out-of-doors for the rest of the reign , whilst during the period of the Tory Reaction a successful campaign of legal recriminations taken against the political enemies of the Court meant that the first Whigs as a political movement were almost destroyed . |
| 28 | For — contrary to the legend that it was all thought through in a day — this theory was worked out in three main stages over the next half year . |
| 29 | They reached their boat , but the Germans were there before them and Gus March-Phillips was killed along with three others . |
| 30 | After the death of Louis I in 840 the Empire — which stretched from the Pyrenees in the south-east to the Elbe and the Danube in the west — was carved up into three kingdoms , shared between Charlemagne 's three grandsons . |