Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of women who separated between 1970 and 1974 before the age of 35 , nearly one-quarter had remarried within three years , while just over half had remarried within six years . |
| 2 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 3 | Saints again struggled to get going in the second half and had to wait until three minutes from time for their final try through Hunte after numerous handling mistakes . |
| 4 | But the work also had to contend with three apses , and here it met with less success : in the apse to Orpheus 's right the panel is a poor fit , and throws out the meeting of the guilloche border of the main design with the north-western abutement . |
| 5 | We had to go on three trains . |
| 6 | Kim had booked for three days — the longest time available . |
| 7 | By 10pm , they were all back in the House to hear that the government had won by three votes . |
| 8 | At the wire Sir Ivor had won by three quarters of a length . |
| 9 | Another told me she had suffered for three years with a terrible pain in her back but since following the diet the pain had completely disappeared . |
| 10 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 11 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |
| 12 | In 1885 France was in possession of a colonial empire which , in 25 years , had grown to three times its original size . |
| 13 | In the upper levels of the hills the occasional pools had grown to three times their normal size , and turned every bowl of rushy upland into marsh , where the army laboured perilously for every half-mile of painful progress . |
| 14 | But although I chose it virtually at random , this does not make it ‘ typical ’ , any more than the horrific Bihar gaol described by Sinha ( 1978 ) in which 143 people had died within three years . |
| 15 | The experience so thrilled her that she decided to make a career of it , and by the age of 10 she had performed in three Broadway shows . |
| 16 | She had slept with three men in her life . |
| 17 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 18 | After we had rehearsed for three weeks , on the very last night of rehearsal , we worked till four in the morning then photos were taken of us in these spangled costumes ; because they stretched from our ankles to our necks , we could n't sit down . |
| 19 | To reach us , as I have said , Boy had to walk past three shops with windows . |
| 20 | … Negotiations implied weakness : the use of force which the Dutch had employed for three centuries was the most suitable course to pursue . ’ |
| 21 | By the final round the gap had narrowed to three votes , with Baburin polling 412 and Khasbulatov 409 . |
| 22 | ‘ I was taken to a room which I had to share with three others , two Indian women and one black man , ’ she told me . |
| 23 | They had to settle for three consolation points , leaving them second three points below Gresford . |
| 24 | It would in fact be the first hot meal the Halflings had tasted in three weeks , ever since they said farewell to their kinfolk in the Moot and marched away to join the Emperor 's army . |
| 25 | Couples 's task was made all the easier by a sad collapse of Craig Parry , who had led after three rounds but flinched , it seemed , from the prospect of becoming the first Australian to win the Masters . |
| 26 | So , when on 8 May Acheson announced that the US would send economic and military aid to the French in Indo-China ( for Gaddis Smith , the turning point — ‘ the scales had swayed for three months and then came down hard on the side of France ) the French position was at least potentially desperate and one can not help asking whether there were any countries receiving military aid under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program , other than Vietnam , in which there were such powerful revolutionary forces and where a revolutionary war was already in progress . |
| 27 | By that time , the Scottish team had gone through three practice sessions , while the Aussies from Queensland expect their post-season training to see them to a successful defence of the tournament , which starts today . |
| 28 | And when they returned to the main column they told how this one had fought like three men against ten times as many of the barbarians . |
| 29 | My last winter sortie into the Cairngorms had resulted in three days and nights trapped with Pete by a blizzard of historic proportions on the squalid mud floor of the Etchachan hut . |
| 30 | It was in 1946 at the Stockholm Opera as Agathe in Der Freischütz , which she had to learn in three days . |