Example sentences of "they [verb] three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Hapsburg Archduchess , travelling to take her four poodles for a Parisian clipping , had them fed three times a day on milk calf fried in Normandy butter . |
| 2 | We 'll make them spin three pounds instead of two |
| 3 | ITV also announced this week that , with the agreement of the Football League , they had taken out the Arsenal v Liverpool match from the fixtures for February 24 and it would be played at a later date , invoking a clause in their contract with the League that allows them to use three matches a season in this way . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's unusual to go into a game with Arsenal with us losing two , and them losing three games in a row . |
| 5 | Many were following the old General ( later Combined ) Degree which allowed them to study three subjects for finals . |
| 6 | ‘ They met three years ago , ’ she said . |
| 7 | They got three depots , one at Carlisle |
| 8 | On one memorable day they made three captures , with Mike rushing exhausted around the forest trying to keep up . |
| 9 | They made three mistakes with these cattle — they let them in , they failed to test them , and they encouraged farmers like myself to buy the cattle , and all these moves were errors . |
| 10 | We 're going to make them fulfil the promises they made three years ago . |
| 11 | Weighing on a weekly basis reduces the likelihood that people will weigh themselves obsessionally every day and reassures the women with bulimia that weight does not necessarily go up when they eat three meals a day . |
| 12 | They number three males and six females . |
| 13 | They make three assumptions : ( a ) the real polymer chains move in a mean field called the cage , and in the cage field each chain is confined in a tube-like region , the central line of which is defined as the primitive chain ; ( b ) the equilibrium conformation of the primitive chain is a random walk with step length a and arc length L ; ( c ) the primitive chain , as a whole , moves as a Brownian particle along itself , with curvilinear diffusion constant D. |
| 14 | They make three points here : |
| 15 | Instead , they want three anaesthetists who live nearer Llandudno Hospital to be put on a local cover rota . |
| 16 | And they want three things . ’ |
| 17 | They drew three coverts blank , found at a fourth , but lost the line in less than a mile . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | At the airport , the police looked in their bags , and they found three tubes of toothpaste . |
| 20 | As supplements they tried three carotenoids ( Pcarotene , 3-hydroxyechinenone , astaxanthin ) and two vitamin A derivatives ( the acetate and acid ) . |
| 21 | But Husam Mohammadamin , the Iraqi official coordinating the movements of the UN inspectors , said : ‘ They visited three sites . |
| 22 | Ludo and I hold our clubs ; they hold three chains and a knife . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And so they put three sets of converters in . |
| 25 | They compared three sets of students : the first took a course in mainstream microeconomics , taught by an instructor with an interest in industrial organisation and game theory ; the second took a similar course , but taught by a specialist on development in Maoist China ; the third took a placebo ( astronomy ) . |
| 26 | They 'd three cats . |
| 27 | ‘ That too quick for you ? ’ he asked when they arrived three seconds later . |
| 28 | I 'll call you a Pakistani , they wear three t-shirts , I said do you go to bed in them and then just leave them on the next morning put your school shirt on top ? |
| 29 | What have they th they ducked three points as it is . |
| 30 | They describe three falls : that of the Emperor Haile Selassie , that of the Shah and that of the colonial masters of Angola . |