Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WARRING factions in Bosnia ordered a ceasefire yesterday and agreed to open three routes for the safe passage of civilians out of the stricken capital Sarajevo . |
| 2 | On Aug. 31 the UN announced another 79,200 tonnes of food for Somalia , worth US$26,000,000 and reckoned to last three months . |
| 3 | FOUR yachtsmen competing in an annual midnight race had a lucky escape yesterday when their vessel flooded and began to sink three miles from the Isle of Man . |
| 4 | FOUR yachtsmen competing in an annual night race cheated death yesterday after their vessel was flooded and began to sink three miles off the Isle of Man . |
| 5 | Marilyn L. Harrell , one of the key figures in the HUD scandal , was sentenced on June 22 to three years and 10 months in prison , and ordered to serve three years ' probation and to pay $600,000 in restitution . |
| 6 | He was kicked and punched as he lay huddled in a ball on the ground and had to spend three days in hospital . |
| 7 | However , this process requires great care to get it right and not all printers are infallible — indeed , one printer I used was infallibly fallible and had to make three sets of cards when the first set were turned along the short axis and the second set were guillotined along the fold . |
| 8 | He also owned ten bushels of wheat , and fourteen of barley , and had sown three dayworks ( roods ) of winter wheat , but no husbandry implements were listed . |