Example sentences of "three [noun] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of only three roads to cross the Atlas links Marrakech and Taroudant by the astonishing 7,000 ft Tizi n'Test pass . |
| 2 | Michael 's brought the foreigners with him , and left the three Ruritanians to hold the King prisoner . |
| 3 | Every year after the three-hours service on Good Friday , in which we choir boys were divided into three groups to lead the singing of the hymns , each group for an hour , a number of villagers went off to look for primroses in the hedgerows and woods . |
| 4 | Born in Liverpool to a West African father in 1951 , Conteh won ABA , British and Commonwealth titles but was stripped of his world title by the World Boxing Council for failing to go through with a contracted defence in 1977 and failed three times to regain the championship before retiring in 1981 . |
| 5 | Despite taking the lead with a long range volley from Nick Pickering , Huddersfield scored three times to take the points back to Yorkshire . |
| 6 | William was heard to exclaim as , with their foot beginning to give way , the Jacobite horse charged three times to restore the situation , forcing some of the attackers back into the river . |
| 7 | Since 1964 the Furniture unions have tried three times to organise the workers of Spiralynx ; each time a small number of workers have joined a union , the management have found out and workers have been dissuaded from joining . |
| 8 | THE BRITISH government should increase its support for industrial R&D by between two and three times to keep the country abreast with its competitors . |
| 9 | Charmingly , the verses are written along the edge of a circular piece of paper , which is folded three times to make the shape of a cone . |
| 10 | Three projects to investigate the Solar System range from a cluster of four satellites to investigate the Earth 's magnetosphere , through a solar high-resolution observatory ( in Earth orbit ) , to a probe designed to fly to the asteroid belt and study some asteroids at close range . |
| 11 | Stirling Moss ( GB ) , in 1955 , along with his co-driver Denis Jenkinson ( GB ) , became one of only three non-Italians to win the great race and many regarded it as Moss 's best-ever drive . |
| 12 | Iro 's direct running down the wing always looked the tourists ' most promising mode of attack , and on the stroke of the interval , he muscled past three defenders to give the Kiwis a 10-4 half-time lead . |
| 13 | Timesense said she had maybe three hours to reach the Narrow Room . |
| 14 | His younger brother Philip was tied up and locked in the boot of a car for three hours to stop the family raising the alarm while the thugs made their getaway . |
| 15 | It took emergency services three hours to bring the fire under control , but manufacturing operations at the site were unaffected . |
| 16 | Cambridge took only three minutes to take the lead through Matts Decker , a German engineering student . |
| 17 | It took three minutes to erect the inner tent on its first outing but because it was raining constantly , the inner was a little wet before I had a chance to put the flysheet over . |
| 18 | She shrugged her shoulders , popped it back in , won the fight as well as the following three contests to take the title — and only then told Dr Ken Kingsbury , the English team doctor , of her injury . |
| 19 | From this stems the historical importance of the ordinances of war issued by kings on campaign : by Richard II during the Scottish war of 1385 ; by Henry V in France in 1419 ; and by his brother John , duke of Bedford , in Normandy in 1428 , all three attempts to control the illegal or ‘ un-peaceful ’ activities of soldiers , in particular in their relationships with non-combatants . |
| 20 | After having to make three attempts to turn the huge pantechnicon into our lane , they finally succeeded . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It took him three attempts to insert the key into the padlock . |
| 23 | ‘ It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it . |
| 24 | Mike Blaisdell and Rick Brebant both scored three goals to inflict the Pirates ' first defeat in the quarter-finals . |
| 25 | The other three parties to contest the 1989 elections were the SWAPO-Democrats ( SWAPO-D , founded by SWAPO dissidents in the 1970s and a participant from 1985 in the transitional government , Andreas Shipanga , l. ; on Aug. 13 SWAPO-D announced that it would disband and join the NPF ) ; Christian Democratic Action ( CDA , Rev. Peter Kalangula , l. ) ; and the Namibia National Democratic Party ( NNDP , Paul Helmuth , l . ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We have tried to convey something of the complexity and texture of the environment within which the project was conceived and developed , and through detailed case studies of three schools to illustrate the project in action . |
| 28 | In Target Home Loans v Clothier [ 1992 ] , The Times , 7 August , the Court of Appeal delayed an order for possession by the lenders for three months to allow the borrowers to sell the mortgaged property . |
| 29 | Subsequently , endosonography and computed tomographic examinations were performed every two or three months to assess the response to treatment or relapse . |
| 30 | The tenant should also consider amending 7.5.2 to extend the suspension by an additional three months to enable the tenant to fit out the premises and there is no harm in including a provision that a due proportion of rents paid in advance should be refunded to the tenant . |