Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 2 | And then I bought another one and then I bought a third one so that I had three combines but there were no other combines on Orkney at all . |
| 3 | In the reign of Canute , an aristocratic woman called Godiva attending a vigil of prayer to St Etheldreda in Ely , was so kindled in her love towards the Ely monks , because of the ‘ beauty of the place and of their devotion ’ , that she granted three estates to the monastery . |
| 4 | A flotation session costs the best part of £25 , and they recommend that you have three sessions , to get the benefit . |
| 5 | Suppose we make known to a child that we have three sticks , all of different length . |
| 6 | His starting point is the fact that we have three classes of receptors in our eyes , each tuned to respond to a different wavelength of light , one to ‘ red ’ , one to ‘ green ’ , and one to ‘ blue ’ . |
| 7 | I was told that they receive three meals a day and a very small amount of payment , although this did not appear to be directly related to the amount of work they did . |
| 8 | What infuriated her was that they charged three shillings for afternoon tea , so she decided to forgo it because she knew the men would still be out on the links . ’ |
| 9 | June 1873 , the Prince and Princess of Wales held a garden party there , at which Queen Victoria , also the Shah of Persia , were present , and the list of guests was so long that it filled three columns of the Times . |
| 10 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 11 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 12 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 13 | Can we ask Mr how it was that he eliminated three sectors ? |
| 14 | Manners replied that he had three reasons for appointing Scott in preference to the other two prize-winners . |
| 15 | I interviewed the commander of the Venetian fire service who told me that he had three boats at his dispersal and a fourth at half an hour 's readiness . |
| 16 | Over and above the fact that he has three clerks , |
| 17 | But till receipts back his claim that he bought three bottles of red wine for £17.47 in the firm 's Connaught Street store a day earlier , helping push his card over the limit . |