Example sentences of "[be] three [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 The Diadora League minnows could have been three up in the first 20 minutes .
2 were er were er and and and there were three on .
3 Milton Keynes were three up in six minutes …
4 Elsewhere Sam Torrance and Gordon Brand Jnr were six under in beating Curtis Strange and Paul Azinger on the final green , Ian Woosnam and Nick Faldo were five under in overcoming Mark Calcavecchia and Mark McCumber on the same hole and Mark James and Howard Clark were three under in dispatching Lanny Wadkins and Freddie Couples 3 & 2 .
5 The Pirates were three down at Humberside before rallying to take the lead but the Seahawks salvaged a 6-6 draw with a late goal by Grant Slater .
6 United were three down to David Hirst , Mark Bright and John Sheridan after 61 minutes .
7 He said : ‘ We were three down after the first leg against Stuttgart , but there was a great feeling we could do it .
8 Ferguson admitted : ‘ We showed a wee bit of nervousness in the first half , the sort of anxieties that were there when we were three down against Everton . ’
9 Brian Williams and Ken Brierley got late goals for Liverpool at Charlton , but by then the Reds were three down and lost 3-2 .
10 Sixty-eight of the ninety family names recorded in the 1720s , that is three out of every four , were those of families which had come into the parish since the Elizabethan period .
11 Reckon that 's three out of fifteen .
12 Oh it do n't look too bad , it 's three out .
13 Lyle was three up after 22 holes against Rafferty but then once again went through the crucible of humiliation .
14 Pam Wright , who started the final day at two over par , was three over at the turn .
15 Pam Wright was three over at the turn but ended up with a level par 73 and a four-round total of 293. 930319
16 Then it was three out of three at the start of the second half .
17 Up to then he had never been in front — he was three down with 11 holes to play — but he went one up at the 17th the second time around .
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