Example sentences of "he [vb past] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made three calls , the first of which was to Lily . |
| 2 | He made three attempts to enter Parliament for Tewkesbury before succeeding in 1918 , when he stood for Stroud as a coalition candidate . |
| 3 | In his acceptance speech he made three predictions : ‘ I believe you will see tonight that Britain will have returned strongly to three-party politics again . |
| 4 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 5 | Brannen , who resigned from Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harriers before Christmas , had to abort an attempt to achieve the qualifying points score in Maryland , USA , two weeks ago when he registered three fouls in the second discipline , the long jump . |
| 6 | At a much later stage he produced three sonnets about Italian freedom ( At Bologna , In Remembrance of the Late Insurrections , 1837 ) . |
| 7 | He met three men inside A45 . |
| 8 | ROBERT ALNER continued his relentless progress towards taking The Daily Telegraph Men 's Championship at Portman on Saturday when he rode three winners and now leads Philip Scholfield — who was restricted to one success at the Dartmoor — by 22 to 13 . |
| 9 | He got three CSEs before going to college full-time . |
| 10 | He got three things , oh a pastry things |
| 11 | and they say film industry department , Wakefield somewhere got John 's name out of the blue , so that , do n't know anything else about it because he 's , he 's always been seen by you know , this , this other company , and he got three tax eighty seven , eighty eight , eighty eight , eighty nine , ninety , and one what , were the estimate was twenty five thousand pounds , and five thousand pounds |
| 12 | You see he 's he 's got a choice , he got three weeks to move in , make his mind up |
| 13 | He took it in the pub and he got three quarts of beer ; and he had to lay a penny down and bought me a bottle of pop . |
| 14 | And he stood there and he got three quarts o' beer into him . |
| 15 | He got three years . |
| 16 | He got three months for destroying the blanket . |
| 17 | He got three months ’ jail but has served it on remand . |
| 18 | he got three goals in two minutes |
| 19 | He admitted three charges of illegally camping in a lay-by and two charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice by giving a false name to police . |
| 20 | He read three newspapers a day . |
| 21 | He lined three glasses up at Cattini 's elbow , keeping one back for himself . |
| 22 | He presided three times a year at the Convocation of York , which he found a happy body . |
| 23 | He drew three conclusions . |
| 24 | He drew three phase electrical diagrams with a less than comprehensive knowledge of the subject in hand . |
| 25 | He described three miasms ( syphilis , sycosis and psora ) which he related to the venereal diseases ( syphilis and gonorrhoea ) and the skin itch ( akin to psoriasis ) respectively . |
| 26 | He described three levels of representation in the process of vision and three levels of explanation . |
| 27 | He reported three tours of Australia for the Sunday Pictorial and was the radio summariser with Alston , Arlott and Swanton for the Tests in the early Fifties . |
| 28 | He used three kinds of diplomacy to achieve his aim . |
| 29 | However , he will be fitter and more able to cope with the ground than the form book danger , Rusch de Farges , whom he beat three lengths last season , but the latter has an 8lb advantage . |
| 30 | Boro were being pushed back but Stuart Ripley raised hopes with a brilliant run down the middle in which he beat three players . |