Example sentences of "three [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yates , who was busy setting up John and Mary in New York , went down to Baltimore two or three times to participate in the nocturnal meetings . |
| 2 | Look , there 's three minutes to go before the news . |
| 3 | Quine uses these three inputs to argue against the notion of individual non-observation sentences having a separate meaning all their own . |
| 4 | THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing . |
| 5 | You could feel the dismay amongst the Leeds players and their fans as it thundered past John Lukic and into the back of the net , leaving them searching for three goals to progress in the competition . |
| 6 | Their mission complete the men divided into three parties to march to the coast , where it was planned that a submarine would pick them up . |
| 7 | Lamb said : ‘ There is still three weeks to go before the team leaves and we will monitor events very carefully between now and then . |
| 8 | It was estimated that it would take them two to three weeks to get to the Falklands and therefore , theoretically , the decision could be rescinded if there were some kind of diplomatic breakthrough . |
| 9 | The South Africans will have only three days to acclimatise before the opening one-day match at Sabina Park next Tuesday . |
| 10 | no , no , my Lord I have three applications to make in the light of the evidence given by Mr yesterday and this witness today , er the first is this in terms of this witnesses evidence , I do n't know whether your Lordship appreciated it , but I certainly did in terms of evidence , that in cases of some brochures there were a number of editions , in other words first , second and maybe third edition |
| 11 | More than £500 was collected during the day and the Minehead Ladies ' guild was one of three charities to benefit from the collection . |
| 12 | He said that it might take two to three years to arrive at the complete version of the social audit , which will be sent to all shareholders with the financial statements . |
| 13 | Even though they still have three years to go before the BIS deadline , Japan 's five leading city banks ( Dai-Ichi Kangyo , Sumitomo , Fuji , Mitsubishi and Sanwa ) have all cleared the 8% hurdle . |
| 14 | Danie Visser took the opportunity of his selection to South Africa 's first Davis Cup team to be announced since 1978 , to protest that they have been placed in the bottom Group , so that it will take them at least three years to qualify for the World Group . |
| 15 | However , because they had been unemployed , they had not earned enough money in the previous three years to qualify for the mature student allowance , and so it was denied to them . |
| 16 | Some farmers were told that they could either settle at once for 60 per cent of what was due to them , or wait three years to fight for the full amount . |
| 17 | Our Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , was given three thrillers to review by the Daily Telegraph : Geoffrey ( not to be confused with Lord ) Archer 's Eagletrap ( Century ) , Clive Egleton 's Hostile Intent ( Hodder ) and J K Mayo 's A Shred of Honour ( Harvill ) . |
| 18 | It was also one of only three HUP–3s to serve with the Royal Canadian Navy on utility and search and rescue missions , operating from HMCS Shearwater , Nova Scotia . |
| 19 | But with three Tests to follow in the Republic Kapil should be on the verge of the record by the time England arrive in India after Christmas . |
| 20 | ‘ Oase ’ , one of three posters to play on the signature initial of the brand name , was part of the first stage of the new campaign which significantly improved Asbach 's performance in the second half of the year |
| 21 | Selina had three paperbacks to add to the shelves , A to Z , Common Legal Problems and The Guide to Married Loving . |
| 22 | Cowan claimed three wickets to add to the two he took on Tuesday , while fellow pace man Andy Bee had three for 24 . |