Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trawl I made through three small-ad market place papers yielded around four pages of diesel cars per 300–400 page issue . |
| 2 | It is difficult to come to terms with the fact that I mean it 's people that you 've worked with for a week , at a time and I mean for three and a half years every second week you 're working with that guys in a confined space , you get to know them really well . |
| 3 | While waiting some of us were given a quick look behind the scenes , and then to my surprise I bumped into three members of the Gwili Railway , on a trip to collect some railway hardware . |
| 4 | As I untangled the fishing tackle , I found over three feet of wire line , two hooks and five weights . |
| 5 | It 's up to thee months , I say after three months no good taking anything at all because you 'd never lose it , not after three months . |
| 6 | For one thing , I walk into three hat shops and they ai n't hat shops at all . |
| 7 | I let off three straight into the gunman 's chest but he did n't look like he felt death coming on . |
| 8 | Even I scored with three kisses on the cheek during one rendering of ‘ La Bamba ’ . |
| 9 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 10 | I had I saved for three years . |
| 11 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
| 12 | a right good'un it were , our Arthur give me torch and I had to buy a battery , I paid about three pound odd for this battery |
| 13 | I 'm thinking I finish at three tomorrow but then I 'll have to get home , Annette , I said to Annette I 'd be there by about four |
| 14 | I recall aged three , being hoisted aboard a huge hunter . |
| 15 | two if I get to three I 'm going to be cross ! |
| 16 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 17 | ‘ I worked for three years in the Collector of Taxes department , which was really just shuffling papers and asking for money . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Whilst training , I worked in three main areas : litigation , commercial property and company commercial . |
| 20 | I looked at three dedicated file servers , from Dan Technology , RSC and Kamco . |
| 21 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 22 | ‘ I went to three different schools and did n't really enjoy any of them . |
| 23 | I went with three other members . |
| 24 | ‘ I listened to three new versions of Yellow Submarine yesterday and they range from the sublime to the ridiculous and they were great . |
| 25 | ‘ I spoke to three different minicab firms , but none of them wanted to come out and fetch us . |
| 26 | And in twelve years as an experienced shop steward , I can only recall having a full time officer in I think on three occasions . |
| 27 | and words , I think with three mix , mix well actually , mix it with |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | I think after three days they 've er worn out their welcome . |