Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 2 | So that 's three times this that I ate three of the |
| 3 | And then I bought another one and then I bought a third one so that I had three combines but there were no other combines on Orkney at all . |
| 4 | Harvey insisted that I drink three gigantic martinis before he released the waiter . |
| 5 | In the reign of Canute , an aristocratic woman called Godiva attending a vigil of prayer to St Etheldreda in Ely , was so kindled in her love towards the Ely monks , because of the ‘ beauty of the place and of their devotion ’ , that she granted three estates to the monastery . |
| 6 | And suppose okay well let's imagine just for a minute that she gets three four four five as , as interest |
| 7 | ‘ You 're telling me that you believe three convicted killers just walked out of Whitely prison without anyone noticing and now they 've come back here to duplicate their original crimes ? |
| 8 | A flotation session costs the best part of £25 , and they recommend that you have three sessions , to get the benefit . |
| 9 | The result is that we have three much-prized Blue Flags for our beaches . ’ |
| 10 | His starting point is the fact that we have three classes of receptors in our eyes , each tuned to respond to a different wavelength of light , one to ‘ red ’ , one to ‘ green ’ , and one to ‘ blue ’ . |
| 11 | Suppose we make known to a child that we have three sticks , all of different length . |
| 12 | The present situation as of July 1991 is that we have three operational LANs , for administrative , library , and plant-data functions . |
| 13 | We see that we have three social revolutions of decreasing traumatic intensity , each representing an economic and cultural advance and each providing the basis for one of the modern stages of individual psychosexual development . |
| 14 | That we have three million full time employer ployees replaced by three million part time and self employed with the worst trained and education labour force of any attending the summit . |
| 15 | The only remaining problem is that we have three different sorts of diphthong : those which glide to ( , , ) , those which glide to ( , ) and those which glide to ( , , ) . |
| 16 | I was told that they receive three meals a day and a very small amount of payment , although this did not appear to be directly related to the amount of work they did . |
| 17 | Yeah , but the other thing was , it was n't that , towards the end of the programme , they were n't so much who fired first , its , erm , there is , there is no evidence either way to support either story , the Irish say there was no Government , there was nobody running for Government you know , said that they had three |
| 18 | What infuriated her was that they charged three shillings for afternoon tea , so she decided to forgo it because she knew the men would still be out on the links . ’ |
| 19 | Selectors have to ensure that they have three good specialists in this area . |
| 20 | Though I suppose one has to make a passing one has to make a passing er reference to the information which has come out in the other house erm and be publicised this weekend in the press but er er at one million almost one million a slug , M E Ps do n't come cheap , er I suppose one however would want to make allowances for the fact that they have three parliamentary buildings , that they have to go on trips and that er they have to pay er er I suppose German rates for their bureaucracy so there clearly are exceptional factors and indeed I would n't want to make too much of that . |
| 21 | June 1873 , the Prince and Princess of Wales held a garden party there , at which Queen Victoria , also the Shah of Persia , were present , and the list of guests was so long that it filled three columns of the Times . |
| 22 | Henning Albrechsten reckons that it takes three years for a telecottage to be able to function without subsidy . |
| 23 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 24 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 25 | We realised that there could be some difficulties , and some apparent injustices might show up , but due to great consultative work put in by Councillors , and Mrs , often against great vilification and personal attack , many per problems were sorted out as they arose but we saw that i in April motions in amendments we see that it takes three full paragraphs of the amended motion to see that they deign to welcome initiatives which extend participation in decision making to schools , governors and parents . |
| 26 | Can we ask Mr how it was that he eliminated three sectors ? |
| 27 | The magistrates were told that he had three previous convictions for alcohol-related offences . |
| 28 | Manners replied that he had three reasons for appointing Scott in preference to the other two prize-winners . |
| 29 | I interviewed the commander of the Venetian fire service who told me that he had three boats at his dispersal and a fourth at half an hour 's readiness . |
| 30 | Over and above the fact that he has three clerks , |