Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man whose car collided with a coach moments before it crashed killing three people and injuring twenty-six others says he ca n't sleep for thinking about the accident . |
| 2 | … for an aspiring educational ideology to be able to mount a serious challenge at the national level it has to link three concepts together : the desired society , the type or types of educated individuals necessary for that society , and the educational means to fulfil these two ends . |
| 3 | It has announced three options , the most ambitious of which involves the extension of the various stations ' 30 year operating lives by between three and seven years . |
| 4 | It has killed three young women in Britain , in the past three years , and put many more in hospital . |
| 5 | If Greece is to shape a coherent future for itself , it has to do three hard things . |
| 6 | It has raised three major questions . |
| 7 | It has submitted three scenarios to a government advisory group allowing for various capacities of electricity production from onshore wind , offshore wind , landfill , hydroelectric , solar cell , wave and forestry schemes . |
| 8 | It has had three chances to cure the structural problems of the UK — abolition of rationing and freeing the interest mechanism from the Dalton experience in the 1950s , the Selsden Man competition and credit control in the 1970s , and the deregulation and monetarism of the 1980s . |
| 9 | The Working Party has submitted a report to the Council of the CNAA in which it has suggested three long-term models : the ‘ integrated model ’ involving joint validation of courses by the CNAA and the institutions ; the licensing' model whereby institutions would approve courses but the CNAA would retain its powers to grant awards ; and the ‘ accreditation ’ model by which institutions , accredited by the CNAA , would award their own degrees . |
| 10 | Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation . |
| 11 | It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts . |
| 12 | In July , the CEGB announced that it proposed to retrofit three 2000 MW power stations with FGD between 1988 and 1997 . |
| 13 | So once the Trust acquired the house it began to do a number of it began to do three things . |
| 14 | It appears to establish three categories : the first contains wordings generally agreed to be acceptable , the second wordings which appear to have been at some time problematic but are now acceptable , and the third wordings which remain inadmissible . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I have n't got a grandmother but if I had one I would shoot her in the foot if it meant getting three points . ’ |
| 16 | He did n't mind responding to a panic call at such a late hour , especially not when it meant transporting three microwave ovens up to the Hall and so getting an advance peek at the preparations . |
| 17 | During the time it took to drink three glasses of unspeakable piss masquerading as wine , I had close to twenty offers : straight sex , not so straight sex , definitely warped sex , threesomes , foursomes , orgies , photos , videos . ’ |
| 18 | It had gathered three or four corpses , and was playing with them , slicing them out of their clothes . |
| 19 | He could hear her hairdryer , almost as hard on his nerves as a dentist 's drill ; it had ruined three attempts to get the message down already , but he did n't want to ask her to lay off for a while in case the uneasy peace was threatened yet again . |
| 20 | Bag B , it had got three blue and three red , so it 's now going to have four blue and three red . |
| 21 | Built at 9am ( unless if ‘ it be Full Sea , the Service shall cease ’ ) it had to withstand three tides . |
| 22 | It had taken three days for the anarchy of two thousand Zaïrois to transform themselves into an organised travelling market . |
| 23 | It had taken three years for the committee , under the chairmanship of Lord Kilbrandon , to gather and consider evidence from a large number of bodies already dealing with child offenders and child neglect . |
| 24 | Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ? |
| 25 | It had taken three cars to get the ten miles from the city to the airport ; Georgians get uncharacteristically ruthless about transport in times of war , when petrol is scarce . |
| 26 | But it had established three important points : first , that there was potential to cut across established Green-Orange divisions in pursuing the interests of Derry ; second , that some educated young Catholics who were uninspired by the Nationalist Party would work enthusiastically on a campaign which challenged traditional sectarian prejudices ; and third , many people came to believe that a section , at least , of Derry Unionists was prepared to sacrifice the interests of the city to those of its party . |
| 27 | He pointed out that the army version of the shooting prompted the questions : Why , if the army believed that it had caught three terrorists , did it let all of them escape ? |
| 28 | It had happened three times now . |
| 29 | It had happened three times before , with different men , and Cathy had reached the conclusion that she was somehow making it happen . |
| 30 | It seeks to answer three questions . |