Example sentences of "to [pers pn] 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 | But if I had said this to you three months ago would you have thought it worth the extra outlay ? |
| 7 | The guard shouted to him three times but he took no notice at all . |
| 8 | 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 … . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | It could n't be Dr Kent ; she hardly knew him , she 'd only spoken to him three times , and then briefly . |
| 11 | But they did carry an extra two-gallon can , and had to resort to it three times . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I do n't believe in the God the parson used to present to us three times on a Sunday . ’ |