Example sentences of "three [noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My final comment is that loadings on the Central Wales line seem fairly light at present , judging by the two or three times I have been on it lately . |
| 2 | Which of these three numbers is the most appropriate depends upon which of the following three statements we think is nearest the truth : |
| 3 | For three years he had been with Jesus and heard his teaching — that he was bound to suffer , to die and to be raised from the dead . |
| 4 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 5 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |