Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had three glasses of sherry quickly . |
| 2 | I know I mean I stayed with him but I had three kids . |
| 3 | I used to have three but I lost three sheep down when they built the university , and I have n't been able to find them , so I thought that they 'd be useful to try and locate them , you know . |
| 4 | Erm no seriously I think it really should n't take long , you 're quite right to sort this matter out but I think three people really should go away and come back with a suggestion or a couple of suggestions . |
| 5 | it 's not like putting pennies on the table and counting them , put twelve pennies on and share them out between three people , no problem , but you put three pennies and share them out between twelve people . |
| 6 | We the both together you could g you could go down either shaft , but you had three doors to come through from one pit to the other . |
| 7 | But you see three quarters of an hour , if we , if we , when er Ken , Ken and Freda 's an hour and a half , er , it soon goes an hour and a half with company like that do n't it ? |
| 8 | But she had three children , yet that did n't really signify anything : cows had calves , horses had foals , pigs had litters . |
| 9 | Yeah but we spent three hours , Lynne , Malcolm , myself sorting that list out and everybody what was on the stock take |
| 10 | Yeah but we got three hands against their two . |
| 11 | They were absolutely not a disaster for women , obviously I would have preferred to stay on the shadow cabinet , but we have three women in the shadow cabinet , and we have a number of women in senior positions outside the shadow cabinet . |
| 12 | India 's openers produced their first half-century stand of the series , but they lost three wickets before reaching three figures , and another at 102 , when Vengsarkar , stretching down the pitch , was unamused to be given out lbw to Hughes 's slower ‘ googly ’ . |
| 13 | Those are the Saw Doctors interesting this about the Saw Doctors is one of them won the lottery in Ireland I do n't they have a lottery we 're go when are we going to get a national lottery that 's what I want to know when are we going to get it a national next year we 're going to get a national lottery that 's right and one of the Saw Doctors won the national lottery and he won three quarters of a million pounds er and they have n't made much money the Saw Doctors but he won three quarters of a million pounds so that have n't worked for quite some time but they are back on the scene as I speak and er they really if if they er come to York they 're certainly worth seeing . |
| 14 | well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots |
| 15 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 16 | In the south you will find Crux Australis , the Southern Cross , which is not genuinely X-shaped ; it is more like a kite , but it contains three stars of above the second magnitude . |