Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Silsoe , QC , opening up the CEGB campaign and taking two and a half days to do it ( there 's nothing like Latin for spinning words out ) , said that the board 's case had three main points . |
| 2 | The President 's cabin lay three miles into the reserve , four miles to the north and a good eight hundred feet above the lodge , and divided from it by a small tributary of the Makaa so Trent could expect no help there even if the owner was in residence . |
| 3 | They are both deeply influenced by the theology of the great St Augustine of Hippo ( 354–430 ) who had described the Trinity in psychological terms : just as the human mind , which was created in God 's image , had three powers — memory , understanding and will — so God 's unity contained Three Persons , which corresponded to these human powers . |
| 4 | Football now , and Oxford United fans slept just a little easier last night after Brian Horton 's side earned three vital points in their fight to avoid relegation . |
| 5 | It had all hinged on one of MacArthur 's Guard finding three cigars . |
| 6 | Today , EDS Spain 's business covers three sectors : manufacturing , finance and some public and government sectors , such as telecommunications . |
| 7 | Amends were made when the same combination sent Stewart back soon afterwards , and poor Atherton 's comeback lasted three balls only as he touched one which went across him . |
| 8 | Britain 's connections with the rest of the world 's economy have three dimensions : |
| 9 | Myeni 's warning came three weeks after it was reported that the ANC was forming " self-defence units " in the townships , a measure condemned by a South African police spokesman as " a recipe for civil war " [ see p. 38132 ] . |
| 10 | A leopard 's gestation lasts three months . |
| 11 | He officiated at an official weigh-in which launched biscuit backstamper Pat Bennett 's slimathon to shed three stones before the August Potters ' Holiday . |
| 12 | Coventry 's line-up includes three Danish internationals and an American . |
| 13 | In London , the big plane tree stuck in the pavement outside Mrs Parvis 's house had three white rings painted round its black trunk so people could see it even in the dark . |
| 14 | Patient 's with Barrett 's mucosa had three specimens taken from the area of columnar lined oesophagus and a fourth from the gastric cardia for comparison . |