Example sentences of "[be] [verb] three time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS . |
| 2 | ‘ I have a dog as big as me and it 's been poisoned three times . ’ |
| 3 | Without a photo-pass hanging from his left lapel , he was uncomfortably conspicuous ; his identity had been checked three times since Amaranth had dropped him . |
| 4 | The evergreen heart-throb thought he should be an expert on the subject having been wed three times . |
| 5 | ‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine . |
| 6 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 7 | The current head of state , President Omar Bongo , succeeded to the Presidency in 1967 on the death of Gabon 's first President , Léon M'Ba , and has been re-elected three times for successive seven-year terms , most recently in November 1986 [ see p. 35047 ] . |
| 8 | It has had over the years to be much restored , having been damaged three times by earthquakes and also outrageously neglected by the community of monks , who seem to have had an unnatural taste for litigation — one lawsuit between them and the locality lasted almost throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | George Scott , Winston 's brother , has been arrested three times in the last three months , and Mark Braithwaite 's brother Gregory is stopped and questioned constantly . |
| 10 | The picture of the fuel cycle now emerging at the inquiry suggests that large quantities of spent fuel from nuclear power stations are going to have to be stored three times : first underwater in ponds at each power station ; secondly , at the new repository , and thirdly , after reprocessing — until such time as the British government decides how to dispose of high level nuclear waste . |
| 11 | The 28-year-old Dutchman , winner in 1988 and 1989 , became only the third player to be crowned three times after compatriot and mentor Johan Cruyff and Frenchman Michel Platini . |
| 12 | The bow may be fired three times in the shooting phase , but it must be fired at the same target ( be this a unit of troops , a monster , or whatever ) . |
| 13 | Each of three teachers prepares four to five topics per term , starting with a minimum of two this programme to re be repeated three times per term to A B C groups , carousel . |
| 14 | It would be published three times weekly . |
| 15 | Had she arranged for the sets to be changed three times during a dinner party , she would have seen to it that everybody noticed . |
| 16 | Third , he exercised jurisdiction over the pagenses ( the " men of the pagus " or county ) : replicating the assemblies of the realm at local level were the county assemblies which were supposed to be held three times every year , and met either in the civitates or elsewhere in the county . |
| 17 | I think it was Professor Thomas Torrance who replied to a question concerning his ‘ conversion ‘ with the reply : ‘ I have been converted three times . |
| 18 | PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force . |
| 19 | The boxes are emptied three times a year by 40 collectors . |
| 20 | There were all sorts of jokes about National Service and this was going to be one of them — the barracks filled with misfits who no more wanted to wear a khaki uniform than they felt like taking poison ( which some of them thought was what they were given three times a day in the cookhouse ) . |
| 21 | Earlier former Wales international David Jones rolled back the years with a top score 61 , riding his luck after being dropped three times . |
| 22 | Another youngster talks about being shot three times after incurring the wrath of the paramilitaries for ‘ anti-social behaviour ’ — car theft and joyriding . |
| 23 | The fish were fed three times daily with soaked flake , JMC catfish pellets , soaked , crushed Tetra Doromin , Waterlife Catfish Tablets , shredded shrimp , cucumber and scalded lettuce . |
| 24 | End expiratory breath samples were collected three times daily throughout the study and analysed for hydrogen and methane concentration . |
| 25 | A YOUNG policewoman was fighting for life early today after being stabbed three times as she tried to break up an argument . |
| 26 | At the end of that month Colonel Fergusson imparted the news that the Frenchy picture at the Rotunda had closed for lack of spectators , whereas Messrs Marshall 's Peristrephic Panorama was still being shown three times a day to audiences rendered perfectly comfortable by patent stoves . |
| 27 | After a further 5min incubation , dishes were washed three times and bound cells lysed and counted by scintillation assay . |
| 28 | The ROS membranes were washed three times in 10mM HEPES , pH7.4 buffer containing 1mM EDTA and solubilized in solubilization buffer ( 10mM HEPES , pH7.4 , 150mM KCl , 10mM CaCl 2 , 1mM DTT , 18mM 3- ( ( 3-cholamidopropyl ) -dimethylammonio ) -1-propanesulphonate ( CHAPS ) , and 0.2% asolectin ) at a concentration of 1.5–2mg protein per ml . |
| 29 | The slides were washed three times in PBS and mounted in Citifluor . |
| 30 | Filters were washed three times with PBS-0.05% Tween 20 . |