Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 2 | I had I saved for three years . |
| 3 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
| 4 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
| 5 | I worked for three years as a school counsellor in South Brompton , and the majority of the children who came my way were children who had some degree of behavioural difficulty or emotional disturbance . |
| 6 | Sir we 've only had this for I think for three minutes before the start of the erm of of this erm session , I 'm just wondering if we could have ten minutes to read it ? |
| 7 | And although the City Council has managed over the years to old council house rents down , I think for three years there was absolutely no rent increase and then only about a nine per cent increase , although we 've managed to hold council house rents down until |
| 8 | Cos er San Sandra agreed in the end she said oh I said you can do it on your own , you can have the nine quid if you like yourself I said but I 'm not coming with you I said for three hours working for somebody who 's twenty five . |
| 9 | I waited for three buses to go past before I got on to one . |
| 10 | However , after being in the ‘ Rena ’ for a week , I became seriously ill with septicaemia and was moved to St. Peter 's Hospital , where I stayed for three weeks . |
| 11 | You could feel the dismay amongst the Leeds players and their fans as it thundered past John Lukic and into the back of the net , leaving them searching for three goals to progress in the competition . |
| 12 | And the figures would have been higher still , but for a smaller rise in car offences which account for three quarters of all reported crimes . |
| 13 | Indeed , the Edinburgh International Festival , which lasts for three weeks in the summer , attracts visitors as well as artists and performers from all over the world . |
| 14 | The Woolwich has also launched a 7.99% fixed-rate mortgage , which lasts for three years . |
| 15 | Movement and Dance and Medau in particular come into the plan from 1983 in an ongoing programme which lasts for three years . |
| 16 | Candles were brought to the tables and any mishaps in the food or service were blamed on the lack of power , which lasted for three hours . |
| 17 | During the sittings , which lasted for three afternoons , he was drinking grappa and reciting Dante . |
| 18 | The incident sparked off a riot which lasted for three days [ see p. 37081 ] , and racial tension had been high during the trial . |
| 19 | What 's in the Box ? was one of the greatest successes of 1953 , and in 1960 Steen 's purchase of the King 's Theatre off Shaftesbury Avenue heralded a string of commercial triumphs , including One Thing After Another , which ran for three years , and , currently , Sex of One and Half a Dozen of the Other . |
| 20 | Enough to keep them going for three days . |
| 21 | Enough to keep them going for three days . |
| 22 | So please will you consider for three months out of our funds which has to be the to pay her that amount of money or else we can not cope . |
| 23 | They are going to have to say : ‘ Look fellas , we do n't want you to work for three months . |
| 24 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 25 | If you stop for three months , I 'll give you £100 ’ — a lot of money in those days , 1948 — £1,000 now ? £2,500 ? — anyway . |
| 26 | Since general public speaking courses are not preparing you to give a particular speech , but to give speeches in general , the first task is simply to get you to stand up in a room full of people and ask you to speak about anything you like for three minutes . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 28 | Mike said : ‘ She breathed for three minutes , giving us hope she would one day be able to breathe for herself . |
| 29 | Mike said : ‘ She breathed for three minutes , giving us hope she would one day be able to breathe for herself . |
| 30 | 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 . |