Example sentences of "we [verb] three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We distinguish three reasons why governments may wish to nationalize industries . |
| 2 | Ooh we made three garlands last year , we 've got two garlands left , we 'll not bother . |
| 3 | Twice we nearly drove into a horse and cart and we passed three lorries . |
| 4 | We asked three women what she meant to them |
| 5 | We asked three questions : |
| 6 | Yeah but we got three hands against their two . |
| 7 | We got three hands against their |
| 8 | Oh so do we want three weeks in France ? |
| 9 | We transform three readers — the Schwarzkopf way . |
| 10 | Well , do we need three speakers ? erm |
| 11 | In section 3.4 , we listed three constraints upon this expansion . |
| 12 | We used three kinds or sonar apparatus . |
| 13 | ‘ We want three points at Pool , nothing less . ’ |
| 14 | To estimate the proportion of oil workers needed to influence the incidence of childhood leukaemia in a rural population , we created three categories containing different proportions of oil workers but with similar populations of children . |
| 15 | right , we played three men , you know you supposed to do it , it supposed to be five hundred and one |
| 16 | We distinguished three calls : the territorial trill , ‘ Dididididi ’ ; a clear , ringing contact call , ‘ Pui , pui , pui ’ : and another , faster , ‘ Pi-pi-pi-pi-pi ’ . |
| 17 | On the morrow we added three mules ( and their muleteers ) : Llacen , a wizened old man , Hussein , a lively character , and young Omar , all tousled hair and grin , who made the entire trip in flip flops ! |
| 18 | Under this heading we give three methods which are all very different in principle . |
| 19 | To explain such extreme velocities , we consider three possibilities . |
| 20 | We showed three readers how . |
| 21 | We cheered three Egyptians who stood up in the body of the hall and cried , ‘ We want Nasser ’ . |
| 22 | On 22 June , 1980 , I gave Bernie lunch at the Travellers Club , and we spent three hours recalling the Good Old Days of radio broadcasting with the CBC in Canada . |
| 23 | Yeah but we spent three hours , Lynne , Malcolm , myself sorting that list out and everybody what was on the stock take |
| 24 | We spent three nights there , initially having a lazy day exploring the beaches , and the next day cycling up the coast fifteen kilometres to Pontevedra , another classic granite Galician town , before climbing up through cool forests to a TV masts on the 2,000-foot summit of the peninsula . |
| 25 | At Loreto , we spent three days exploring the network of muddy paths through the forest around the village , crossing small streams on logs and one larger river on a suspension bridge which consisted of four rusting steel cables and a few loose planks . |
| 26 | We present three families with late onset of polyps and an apparently non-penetrant individual aged 59 years . |
| 27 | As the organising committee we set three objectives for this conference . |
| 28 | Anyway , when he , when he came back again we had to come back cos see we had another delivery of gravel and we ordered three yards and we reckon that on the last journey we bought two yards , we 've got over a yard too much gravel ! |
| 29 | So we get three readings . |
| 30 | We get three quarters , add a quarter , |