Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [prep] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judge held that the child 's welfare required that she be adopted by the foster parents with whom she had lived for three of her five years , and that the parents were withholding agreement unreasonably . |
| 2 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 3 | Another told me she had suffered for three years with a terrible pain in her back but since following the diet the pain had completely disappeared . |
| 4 | It was in 1946 at the Stockholm Opera as Agathe in Der Freischütz , which she had to learn in three days . |
| 5 | She had slept with three men in her life . |
| 6 | The experience so thrilled her that she decided to make a career of it , and by the age of 10 she had performed in three Broadway shows . |
| 7 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 8 | He wore his clothes so well , she thought , looking at him ; not a bother on him , while she had tried on three different dresses before choosing one in desperation . |