Example sentences of "[vb past] three [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , Morgan invited three strangers to have sexual intercourse with his wife . |
| 2 | They drew three coverts blank , found at a fourth , but lost the line in less than a mile . |
| 3 | To estimate the proportion of oil workers needed to influence the incidence of childhood leukaemia in a rural population , we created three categories containing different proportions of oil workers but with similar populations of children . |
| 4 | Powerful incumbent airlines found three ways to erect strategic entry barriers and consolidate their market power . |
| 5 | ‘ I came by here once , with the wind wet and howling , and I found three Japanese huddled under the lip of the bunker . ’ |
| 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 | The anaesthetist tried three times to insert it . |
| 8 | I tried three times to get in but was beaten back by flames . ’ |
| 9 | Suddenly , the crew noticed three humps breaking the surface of the water , and then part of a head draped with a growth that looked like seaweed . |
| 10 | Our hypothetical Ann could eat her packet of peanuts , for example , if she added three half-hour swims to her weekly routine . |
| 11 | A couple I knew who adopted three children found that only one of the three was at all interested in finding out about his natural parents . |
| 12 | Despite taking the lead with a long range volley from Nick Pickering , Huddersfield scored three times to take the points back to Yorkshire . |
| 13 | Mike Blaisdell and Rick Brebant both scored three goals to inflict the Pirates ' first defeat in the quarter-finals . |
| 14 | ‘ He was a brilliant A-level student and got three A passes . |
| 15 | She got three home has n't she . |
| 16 | You know , say if they wanted to get you three C's and you got three A's shut up Sam ! |
| 17 | Many feel that so called rebel tours such as the one lead by Mike Gatting in 1982 did more harm than good.Cricketers were accused of sacrificing sport and principles chasing sizeable pay cheques and on their return were unrepentant even when they got three year bans from international cricket . |
| 18 | You see he 's he 's got a choice , he got three weeks to move in , make his mind up |
| 19 | That Clenbuterol , the stimulating steroid that got three Brits sent home , is known to its devotees as Dopers Delight . |
| 20 | Eliot Gardiner made three oratorio sets for Philips from the hall at Göttingen : Alexander 's Feast , Jephtha and Saul , setting in the process an up-hill task for McGegan with some pretty serious competition . |
| 21 | He made three attempts to enter Parliament for Tewkesbury before succeeding in 1918 , when he stood for Stroud as a coalition candidate . |
| 22 | The Royal Commission made three recommendations to tackle the problem of representation : the simplification of tribunal procedures , the development of lay advice and representation , and the extension of legal aid . |
| 23 | In their study of affluent workers ' attitudes to work John Goldthorpe and his colleagues asked three questions designed specifically to measure the extent to which industrial work is experienced as intrinsically unsatisfying . |
| 24 | The guardian asked three climbers going down to the village to inform the police , as he was unable to contact them himself since the refuge radio was broken . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Cowan claimed three wickets to add to the two he took on Tuesday , while fellow pace man Andy Bee had three for 24 . |
| 27 | But an inspection earlier this month showed three sites had damaged or missing signs , two had damaged or missing dog fouling bins , three had damaged fencing and one had dog excrement . |
| 28 | A study in 1984 showed three quarters earning 1 per hour or less . |
| 29 | He and his men spent three winters trapped in the ice , but sadly the drift was south as well as west and the ship was released north of Svalbard having reached a point no closer than several hundred miles from the pole . |
| 30 | Police spent three hours persuading her to leave the car before taking her for counselling at a police station . |