Example sentences of "to [pron] three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The route the Phillips had been asked to consider had already been put to them three times and was the same as the existing one , he said . |
| 2 | In particular it is Paul 's prayer that the Spirit would reveal to them three things . |
| 3 | Glenn Hoddle says they they do n't do things easily … they were the best footballing side on the day and its justice for what happened to them three years ago |
| 4 | ‘ She gave it to me three times , then she got difficult . ’ |
| 5 | But I think conductors would not be the answer because what happens when the driver is smoking as has happened to me three times in three weeks . |
| 6 | Well , many thanks to my three guests discussing sexual harassment in Oxford . |
| 7 | Well many thanks to my three guests . |
| 8 | I 'm sorry that our time is up , but many thanks to my three guests today ; to Phyllis Starkey , the leader of the Labour Group on Oxford City Council ; to Michael Wright , from the Liberal Democrat benches ; and from Queenie Warley from the Conservatives . |
| 9 | What sudden right had Henrietta Latchett to her three boys ? |
| 10 | But they were glad of the tyres on one stretch where four-wheeled vehicles had left tracks unconducive to their three wheels , leaving them travelling ‘ broadside but in control , ’ he insisted . |
| 11 | Later in the year , the Queen , as was customary , gave a reception at Buckingham Palace to which three representatives of the firm were invited as an additional way of marking its achievement . |
| 12 | The material is made by combining crushed whole eggs and milk , to which three kinds of the enzyme lipase are then added to break down fats . |
| 13 | But if I had said this to you three months ago would you have thought it worth the extra outlay ? |
| 14 | The guard shouted to him three times but he took no notice at all . |
| 15 | Men are portrayed as being powerless : CB LOLITA , 13 , HAD SEX ON THE SLIDE ( ‘ A girl of 13 had sex on a kiddies ' playground slide with a young man she contacted over CB radio , a court heard yesterday ’ ) ; Bedtime antics of a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ ( ‘ A 13-year-old girl … described as a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ went to bed with one man … and then swapped him for another in the same room ’ ) ; Girl , 15 , tempted her mother 's man ( ‘ She had made propositions to him three times which he resisted before succumbing ’ ) ; Sex-case man goes to jail ( Defence counsel claimed ‘ the initiative in the sexual relationship came from the girl ’ ) ; CABBlE 'S TEEN SEX SESSIONS ( ‘ Taxi driver … found the cheeky advances of a teenage Lolita hard to resist ’ ) ; CHOIRMASTER AND GIRL , 15 ( ‘ I was tempted and that 's all ’ ) ; Girl gave rapist sex lesson ( ‘ A 14-year-old girl put out a challenge to a convicted rapist … . |
| 16 | er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times |
| 17 | It could n't be Dr Kent ; she hardly knew him , she 'd only spoken to him three times , and then briefly . |
| 18 | But they did carry an extra two-gallon can , and had to resort to it three times . |
| 19 | What a pity the kangaroo had been discovered too late for Johnson s Dictionary : Captain Cook makes the first reference to it three years earlier , in his Journal for August 1770 . |
| 20 | During the second phase of expansion , Charles allocated authority to his three sons ; each had a kingdom under Charles , and was expected to guard the borders against hostile invasion . |
| 21 | Thanks to his three months of briefings , he is as eloquent about managed competition as anyone , and as cautious about price controls . |
| 22 | Inspired by his effort in the 10th minute , he kicked a second in the closing stages to add to his three conversions and two penalties . |
| 23 | And compared to his three brothers , Charles was not doing too badly in the world , after all . |
| 24 | Now he is confident and ambitious , looking to add to his three caps , the quicker the better . |
| 25 | Set in a slum in Islington , North London , it showed the divisions in a working-class family where the boozing bully of a father resents the independence that the Welfare State has given to his three children . |
| 26 | And we pre-process the data as I say commonly for all the neurons before we present it to our three neurons . |
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| 28 | After she died in Eastertide 1980 at the age of seventy-eight , I found in her desk a handwritten letter to our three children , which she put together in Jerusalem at the repeated request of Rachel , our elder daughter . |
| 29 | I do n't believe in the God the parson used to present to us three times on a Sunday . ’ |