Example sentences of "had [verb] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos er , you have to wait three days for it , and then cheque 's got ta clear in the bank , it 's like our Mark he had a cheque put in his , he had to wait three days before it cleared went in on the Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , do n't count Saturday , Sunday , Monday , cleared by Tuesday dinner time |
| 2 | ‘ Little Fav ’ ( he seemed everybody 's favourite , with his bouncy , cheerful disposition ) had to wait three years before his next Test appearance , though he continued to bamboozle many a batsman in domestic cricket . |
| 3 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 4 | I went to the doctor , but he just sent a letter to the Detox Unit and I had to wait three months [ for the appointment ] . |
| 5 | ‘ If we had to wait three months for this money , then fill in a new form to open a different account , just like a new investor in fact , it would not be a bad idea to see if any other society was offering a better rate than the 8.85 per cent offered by ‘ Prime Gold ’ . |
| 6 | When the General Commissioners reviewed the facts , they had regarded three matters as important : first , that the storage racking was bolted to the floor for safety purposes — the Commissioners took the view that there was no distinction between the racking ( which was plant ) and the platform ; second , that members of the public were rarely admitted to the platform which was essentially for storage ; and , third , that , although the platforms were large , there were cases where very large structures had been deemed to be plant . |
| 7 | Each tenant had to mow three days in autumn , and gather nuts for one day ; each gave a hen at Christmas and ten or twelve eggs at Easter to the warden of the forests between Oxford and Stamford Bridges , to make up his farm . |
| 8 | By May 1969 , the Oxford College of Technology , as it still was , had submitted six courses for CNAA approval , had received three visits , and had had nothing approved . |
| 9 | He was reading once again a letter he had received three days ago . |
| 10 | The schoolgirl told her parents she had stopped three nights in a bed and breakfast , spending the day on the beaches and on the piers , before her money ran out . |
| 11 | ‘ I remember the days , ’ he recalls with an air of maturity which seems strangely at odds with his T-shirt and shorts , ‘ I remember the days at Virgin when we had to see three people in the morning and three people in the afternoon , straight off the street . |
| 12 | I was glad that I was n't one of those Portuguese or Italians who only had to go three hours without shaving for there to be a blue carpet on their chin . |
| 13 | And then you got You had to go three times a week ? |
| 14 | On one occasion , when the Land Rover was only half a mile away , I had to go three miles to reach it . |
| 15 | She was the chairman of the Forest of Arden Young Conservatives which she had joined three years previously at her mother 's prompting . |
| 16 | Among the participants were many noted specialists in English and Linguistics , including ( Puna ) , ( Varanasi ) , ( Delhi ) , ( Indian Institute of Technology , Delhi ) , ( College of Commerce , Delhi University ) , ( CIEFL Hyderabad ) , and ( Trivandrum ) , a well-known poet who had travelled three days by train to get there . |
| 17 | They had waged three rounds of quick fire war in an all action bout that contained just about every move and punch in the sport . |
| 18 | By half-time Richmond were sure of the victory they needed to clinch promotion , and Livesey had added three conversions and two penalty goals . |
| 19 | Krantz had won three US Opens and numerous tournaments around the world . |
| 20 | Peter had won three times already and had been unlucky not to make it a fourth title the year before . |
| 21 | And he did so by having to fend off none other than Tom Watson , who had won three times at Butler National . |
| 22 | Between them the eight runners had won three races ; they were racing 's cannon fodder . |
| 23 | Four years before the Americans had won three games to one on the first morning . |
| 24 | At the time of going to press , he had won three tournaments , in San Francisco in February , followed by back to back victories in Indian Wells and Key Biscayne in March , scoring wins over Courier ( twice ) , Krajicek , Gilbert and Sampras along the way . |
| 25 | They had occupied three weeks of my life and the whole of my workshop , but here they seemed very small . |
| 26 | He never slept much before combat ; that was why he had caught three hours ' rest during the afternoon . |
| 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 | During the early part of World War Two , the Air Ministry had targeted three areas which required special attention . |
| 29 | The autopsy revealed he had absorbed three times that amount . ’ |
| 30 | A man she had met three times . |