Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | Enough to keep them going for three days . |
| 13 | Enough to keep them going for three days . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They are going to have to say : ‘ Look fellas , we do n't want you to work for three months . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mike said : ‘ She breathed for three minutes , giving us hope she would one day be able to breathe for herself . |
| 19 | Mike said : ‘ She breathed for three minutes , giving us hope she would one day be able to breathe for herself . |
| 20 | Previously , she worked for three months on a Youth Training Scheme after leaving Castlehead High School . |
| 21 | ( You shoot for three weeks , he points out , and three weeks later your work is being distributed to an audience larger than any cinema film short of Batman could hope to reach . ) |
| 22 | Your 3-day break voucher for two is incorporated in this brochure ; this entitles you to stay for three nights free of charge , when you pay for breakfast and dinner at your chosen hotel . |
| 23 | She waited for three rings , but she knew that Hugh would n't pick up a machine that might buzz and shout ‘ Pronto ! ’ at him . |
| 24 | Okay I 'm going to ask each of you to speak for three minutes so you might like to jot that down . |
| 25 | It is contract it 's a monthly contract you work for three weeks for one pound sixteen shillings and at the end of the month they count all the slates you 've done during the month . |
| 26 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 27 | We hid for three days and nights with nothing to eat . |
| 28 | We dated for three months . |
| 29 | At the start of the filming we bring in a students ' orchestra and we rehearse for three days , six sessions in all . |
| 30 | We waited for three hours and did not move . |