Example sentences of "and [verb] the [num ord] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was always a hunger for newspapers and magazines ( usually preferred to books ) and he 'd heard of baptizers in Patashoqua who named children by stabbing a copy of the London Times with a pin and bequeathing the first three words they pricked upon the infant , however unmusical the combination . |
| 2 | I phone Andy and confirm it 's still all right to visit , then I ring Eddie and get the next three days off , tell the cops — they 're based at Fettes , though the DI has gone back down to London , and no they 're still not giving me back my new portable yet — and ( after I 've cleaned the car up a bit ) head out of the city and across the grey bridge in a day of squally , buffeting rain that has the bridge 's 40-limit signs on , high-sided vehicles banned and the 205 dancing its Dunlops sideways as the gusts hit . |
| 3 | Shastri blocked his first three balls , and hit the next three for 4-4-6 with a straight drive and two elegant swings over mid-wicket . |
| 4 | She wrote it as a series of articles and sent the first three to Richard Crossman , then editor of the New Statesman . |
| 5 | Walton 's Life of Hooker relates how his widow allowed Puritan ministers to enter the house and bum the last three books of the Laws , which were already in complete form . |
| 6 | Take one from Women 5 Weekly and rewrite the first three paragraphs for Playboy . |
| 7 | We can win it and spend the last three weeks of the season trying to clinch the big one . ’ |