Example sentences of "three [noun] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has three clubs to choose from , but it is Drillo ( nickname of Egil Olsen ) who decides which club . |
| 2 | Three Cultures to Choose From |
| 3 | The IOC rules require the game to be played in 50 countries and three continents to qualify for Olympic status . |
| 4 | Pencom Software has written three objects to go on NeXtstep-for-Intel . |
| 5 | Rosenthal has selected just three artists to stand for new developments in the Nineties : Jeff Koons , Robert Gober and Mike Kelly . |
| 6 | Yates , who was busy setting up John and Mary in New York , went down to Baltimore two or three times to participate in the nocturnal meetings . |
| 7 | The two trainee investment managers at Charterhouse Tilney 's Liverpool office in the Royal Liver Building now have only one more of three exams to pass before qualifying for their Securities Institute Diploma . |
| 8 | There are three lounges to choose from ; one has a colour TV , one an open fire , and the third , a bar with table-tennis and snooker tables and a darts board . |
| 9 | The same clay is used from year to year and takes about three hours to reconstitute by soaking in water and disinfectant . |
| 10 | The computer craze started by the Nintendo character reached fever pitch as more than 15,000 people waited for up to three hours to get into London 's Earls Court . |
| 11 | It took three hours to get in character every morning and another three to get out at night . ’ |
| 12 | You have three minutes to descend to below the ceiling before the Solution goes into error mode . |
| 13 | It took the fire brigade just three minutes to arrive at Douglas Reyburn when a twisting frame burst into flames in the early hours of the morning . |
| 14 | As an example , one of our machines with a SCSI hard drive takes about three minutes to boot from cold , as the SCSI card gets its affairs in order . |
| 15 | A MOSCOW dating agency claims couples need three minutes to fall in love . |
| 16 | Marsh was dismissed with three minutes to go for a late challenge on Dimitr Radchenko , scorer of Spartak 's first goal , in their 2–0 success which made it 6–2 on aggregate . |
| 17 | We 've only got about three minutes to go on that . |
| 18 | The Irish forced a total of 15 corners and , with three minutes to go before half-time , a combination of Popokovs and ‘ keeper Karavajevs had to clear off the line after Quinn hit a post . |
| 19 | Look , there 's three minutes to go before the news . |
| 20 | Welcome , would you like to take two or three minutes to talk to us about your concerns . |
| 21 | The player chosen has three minutes to think of as many words as possible beginning with that letter . |
| 22 | Quine uses these three inputs to argue against the notion of individual non-observation sentences having a separate meaning all their own . |
| 23 | Perhaps student life does not prepare anyone adequately for the daily slog of an ordinary job , and after two or three attempts to settle into a career in sales management and even in personnel , she had taken off for America . |
| 24 | THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing . |
| 25 | After our three attempts to get to Porto this was a beautiful calm flight . |
| 26 | You could feel the dismay amongst the Leeds players and their fans as it thundered past John Lukic and into the back of the net , leaving them searching for three goals to progress in the competition . |
| 27 | Their mission complete the men divided into three parties to march to the coast , where it was planned that a submarine would pick them up . |
| 28 | ‘ At the end of the day I 've got three kids to look after and they 're going to get stick in school over this . ’ |
| 29 | So , erm you might not get on to number four , if you do , or I tell you to start , can you think of two or three images to add to it which would , which would fit in with the others . |
| 30 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |