Example sentences of "three [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And three times since breakfast she found unauthorized people prowling around — one of them in the labor room , no less ! |
| 2 | Three times in succession they have fallen in the semi-finals , and Beenhakker 's departure became a formality when they were thrashed 5-0 by Milan at San Siro last season . |
| 3 | After two or three hours at night I 've just started . |
| 4 | The first of the three conceptions of law I introduced in the last chapter , which I called conventionalism , shares the general ambition of the popular slogan , though the interpretation it builds is more subtle in two ways . |
| 5 | After barely three months in power he was murdered by the disaffected Praetorian Guards , who ‘ regretted the licence of the former reign ’ . |
| 6 | After three months in hospital he returns to the car park , seeks out the girl and gives her another ticket with time left on it . |
| 7 | The soup came and with it the three bottles of beer he had ordered . |
| 8 | Within her first three weeks of modelling she had done a cover of Harper 's Bazaar . ’ |
| 9 | He put her on probation for three years on condition she remained an in-patient at a psychiatric hospital . |
| 10 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 11 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 12 | But I think after three glasses of wine it 's time I went home . ’ |
| 13 | At length Zen lazily drew out of his pocket the three items of mail he had collected from the Questura . |
| 14 | being shouted at running nine miles with three tonne of stuff you 'll never use on your back |