Example sentences of "three [noun] [prep] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the roundabout at the Southern end of the town there are three roads with the same road number . |
| 2 | The 73-year-old spinster , who worked for three generations of the same family for 56 years , was dragged 30 yards before falling under the giant wheels . |
| 3 | Three generations of the same family set for the London Marathon : Andy Andrews , Andy Fearn and Daniel Fearn |
| 4 | Burgess got himself caught for speeding three times in the same day , caused a deliberate rumpus with his inimitable flair for trouble-making , and departed under an engineered cloud . |
| 5 | Roll out a piece of white fondant to make three strips in the same way , and position these alongside the black strips . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is not all that surprising to find the same stories in three books about the same person . |
| 7 | Three shops in the same town were targetted overnight . |
| 8 | Take three potatoes of the same variety and place one in a cool dark place , expose one to daylight and one to fluorescent light . |
| 9 | On the basis of a synopsis of Company Man , an account of ‘ the evolution of the social phenomenon of the 20th century ’ , Michael Sissons received three bids at the same level , from HarperCollins , Heinemann and Random House . |
| 10 | The rules are quite simple — you match two or three blocks with the same design by moving them together , or by allowing one to fall to make a pairing . |
| 11 | Elimination only occurs after three stops at the same obstacle — in theory you could have two stops at every fence without being eliminated . |
| 12 | Detectives are linking all three attacks to the same man . |
| 13 | There was a slight air of confusion as people rushed around trying to do three things at the same time . |
| 14 | Three sows from the same litter added more honours to the school 's trophy list of rosettes , and plaques , alongside Gladstone 's Championship cup . |
| 15 | But in the 1340s Edward sought to exploit the growing opposition within France to Philip VI by deploying two or three armies at the same time in provinces where the English cause might expect to receive support . |
| 16 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 17 | Well er the I mean there has been a slight complexity with the replacement er programme of course because er er E F two thousand was originally envisaged that it would replace the phantoms er as as as as well as the jaguars and now that er has altered with the decision in options to er get rid of er the phantom squadrons , we 've er been able to adjust the replacement programme such that er the aircraft E F two thousand will replace er the erm er the jaguar and some of the F threes er and the programme will be adjusted such that we get er the most cost effective er mixture of replacement of those two types and there is no problem with keeping the jaguar going until that stage and it may well be it is , is being judged to be cheaper that we should er do some F three replacement at the same time , again partly for cost reasons because it 's gon na be more cost effective to do it that way . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm trying to find three rooms on the same floor . ’ |
| 19 | " But we might have two or three murders at the same time . |
| 20 | ‘ The incessant clamour kept up by multitudes of these birds baffles description ’ , he noted , ‘ … they feed together in perfect amity , and it is not unusual to see two or three species on the same branch . |
| 21 | Three members of the same family have been killed , and two others injured in a collision between an articulated lorry and two cars . |
| 22 | Three members of the same family have been found murdered in Oxford . |
| 23 | ALNWICK : Three members of the same family were badly hurt when their car crashed on the busy Peppermoor crossroads . |
| 24 | THREE members of the same family were injured when two cars crashed on a busy Northumberland road . |
| 25 | ALNWICK : Three members of the same family were badly hurt when their car crashed on the busy Peppermoor crossroads . |
| 26 | ‘ My mother had earned money all her life and brought up three children at the same time seen their noses were wiped and their morals sound . |
| 27 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 28 | The temptation for Germans now , even though the generation of which Mann was writing has largely passed away , is to see in the great breakthrough of the last few months simply a kind of vindication of Germany 's efforts to achieve hegemony in Europe , to see the first and second world wars and what is happening now as three chapters of the same story . |
| 29 | A driver has been remanded on bail after three women from the same family were knocked down and killed on their way home from a funeral . |
| 30 | The inquests into the deaths of three women from the same family have been opened and adjourned . |