Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set fire to a barn , not realising that there was a sick cow in there that perished , and I got three years ’ approved school . |
| 2 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
| 3 | And three great big bins from from the they called them and I had three bins in my shed that I stored the barley in and I put the moisture extractor into them and it blew It had wee in it and it blew all the moisture out . |
| 4 | Er and I had three shillings change . |
| 5 | And I had three strokes on each hand for that . |
| 6 | No , I swear to God Jean he had three , he had two pints and a glass , and I had three vodkas and it , Jean , do n't be silly the only reason that wee bugger 's |
| 7 | And I had three kings and two queens , which sobered me a little bit . |
| 8 | And then I got on a G P scheme in Crawley in Sussex and I spent three years there . |
| 9 | ECHO FROM THE PAST In 1980 Marlies and I spent three days travelling with Senator Edward Kennedy in his motorcade during the presidential primary campaign . |
| 10 | This failed and I spent three days in a state of constant terror before my ( surprisingly ! ) safe arrival in Ladakh . |
| 11 | So when this tour was advertised and I saw three days would be spent in London I just decided to go , that 's all . |
| 12 | and I faced three women |
| 13 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 14 | And I worked three month before Christmas so I got six point summat days |
| 15 | ‘ There was peach cup — that was very good ; and we played guessing games and I won three times and later on they rolled up the carpet — figuratively — we just went out on the terrace and turned on the gramophone and danced . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I came by here once , with the wind wet and howling , and I found three Japanese huddled under the lip of the bunker . ’ |
| 17 | You know , say if they wanted to get you three C's and you got three A's shut up Sam ! |
| 18 | Yeah and I said to her erm , and she said I do n't know how it came out about her son in the fire service , oh I know she 'd just come back from Orlando , cos she 'd been off work having had a hysterectomy and she had three week 's leave due to her |
| 19 | Twice we nearly drove into a horse and cart and we passed three lorries . |
| 20 | ‘ Unfortunately , the referee completely lost it and we had three players sent off . ’ |
| 21 | My husband was Mustafa Zamzam and we had three orchards — two with olives and one with citrus . |
| 22 | Anyway , when he , when he came back again we had to come back cos see we had another delivery of gravel and we ordered three yards and we reckon that on the last journey we bought two yards , we 've got over a yard too much gravel ! |
| 23 | On 22 June , 1980 , I gave Bernie lunch at the Travellers Club , and we spent three hours recalling the Good Old Days of radio broadcasting with the CBC in Canada . |
| 24 | And we went three times and they always planned and planned and planned and had ideas what they could do . |
| 25 | Leopold of Babenburg , who was ruler of the Austrian March , married Agnes , the widow of Frederick of Hohenstaufen , and they had three sons : Leopold , Henry Jasomirgott and Otto von Freising . |
| 26 | But anyway he saw this one stall and he had a look and they had three racks of them for ten ninety nine and then we found some others then , they were they were ten ninety nine but they were as thick as these other ones . |
| 27 | And they had three cargoes of coal in the Summertime , every week . |
| 28 | And they had three wagons turn up . |
| 29 | And they had three children . |
| 30 | At the airport , the police looked in their bags , and they found three tubes of toothpaste . |