Example sentences of "three [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passengers can travel in the three coaches featured in The Darling Buds of May on most days in this period . |
| 2 | Three mutations directed at the C-helix face of the protein have also been analysed . |
| 3 | As we stood there seeing these three riders coming towards the adobe with the dust rising behind them , Mr. Mendez said to me , " Take a good look at Russell . |
| 4 | taking off on Sunday will be the Oxford Products Ducati team … they 've three riders racing in the world championship round at Donington Park |
| 5 | Tallis-Holly watched and soon three riders passed from the human world , an old man , a young man , a woman with a face like stone . |
| 6 | The rural family was a close-knit one with , at times , three generations living under the one roof . |
| 7 | It is already home to three artists working in the studio upstairs and has a large cafe cum exhibition space and a poetry room . |
| 8 | Often these gloves were dipped in a mixture of glue and ground glass to produce terrifying results Almost one in three fights ended in the death of one of the competitors . |
| 9 | A black female cat sat on the floor while her three kittens squealed in the bath , said Mr Owens . |
| 10 | The three groups competing for the right to develop the technology for high definition television are expected to sign an accord to pool resources to develop the standard , the Los Angeles Times reported : it said signing of the pact , which could accelerate introduction of HDTV , was imminent ; the groups involve General Instrument Corp and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Zenith Electronics Corp and AT&T Co , and Philips Electronics NV , Thomson SA , Compression Labs Inc and the National Broadcasting Co arm of General Electric Co . |
| 11 | Thus , if the corporations in their study were divided into three groups depending on the size of their annual sales , then they calculated that those with sales over $1 billion constituted 42 per cent of all corporations but committed nearly three-quarters of not only all violations but all serious violations , whereas those small firms with sales with less than half a billion dollars constituted nearly one-third of firms analysed but only committed less than 10 per cent of all violations . |
| 12 | The total amount of time taken up in such social exchanges or interactions in this sample is in fact relatively small : a division of housewives into three groups according to the proportion of work time thus occupied — less than twenty-five per cent , between twenty-five and fifty per cent , more than fifty per cent — revealed the majority of women to be in the first group ; there was no significant relationship with work satisfaction patterns . |
| 13 | Patients were divided into three groups according to the presence of histological gastritis and evidence of H pylori infection by at least one criterion . |
| 14 | When the pin misses the hole , but enters the block then only three surfaces exist within the sub-space ; for the pin its circular end and the inserted portion of the cylinder whilst for the block there exists only a single outer surface ( see Figure 3.10 ) . |
| 15 | In the elections to the Lok Sabha in November 1989 the faction of the Sikhist Akali Dal led by Simranjit Singh Mann [ see above ] won six of the 13 Punjabi seats , with three independents supported by the Mann faction also being elected [ for full election results see pp. 37124-25 ] . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Three fingers whispered against the skin in the V of her blouse , reaching inside to move within the lace edge of her bra , pushing beneath the confinement of it with greater insistence , hot now and seeking more intimacy than that first feather-light touch had allowed . |
| 18 | A harassed young intern assisted by a cool , pretty nurse ( called Ruth , from Stanmore ) told me that I was bucking the statistical trend by having three fingers smashed between the knuckle and the phalangeal joint . |
| 19 | Clarke usually worked at home , often with their five daughters and three sons playing in the same room . |
| 20 | Of the three epithets employed by the section , ‘ insulting ’ has received most attention from the courts . |
| 21 | The plan is today to i is still three loads , and we 've got three loads planned for the rest of this week . |
| 22 | The other three pairs came from the trees and down the sloping fields in complete silence . |
| 23 | Three hours prospecting on the B L S and three hours prospecting from from nine o'clock till twelve . |
| 24 | The police spent almost three hours going through the house and the farm . |
| 25 | Of the three cases investigated by the deacons , one was put on probation and two , ‘ after confession and promises for better attendance … were left upon the Church books ’ . |
| 26 | The three cases described by the Health Service Commissioner differed in detail , and in each the Commissioner came to slightly different conclusions . |
| 27 | Look , there 's three minutes to go before the news . |
| 28 | Quine uses these three inputs to argue against the notion of individual non-observation sentences having a separate meaning all their own . |
| 29 | The three rules relating to the award of damages for breach of contract were underlined in the famous Victoria Laundry ( Windsor ) Ltd v Newman Industrial Ltd ( 1949 ) case : |
| 30 | ‘ That was lucky , ’ Blake said , as they watched the three prisoners escape from the dungeon . |