Example sentences of "[vb past] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a video camera on his shoulder last November , when a mob doused three thieves with petrol and looked on as they burned . |
| 2 | The Lecture was followed by the Annual Meeting of Court , at which the Chancellor , in a novel ceremony , invited three members of Court to sign the Roll of Benefactors of the University in recognition of their outstanding support of the work of the University . |
| 3 | In this case , Morgan invited three strangers to have sexual intercourse with his wife . |
| 4 | Just before the regulation entered into force the UK on Sept. 20 referred three mergers to its own Monopolies and Mergers Commission , two of which ( a bid by Tate and Lyle for British Sugar , and a proposed joint venture between British Aerospace and Thomson-CSF of France ) would in theory be liable to scrutiny by the European Commission . |
| 5 | Remarkably the Mazunovs , Andrei and Dmitri , sustained three defeats between them , with Cooke also beating Andrei . |
| 6 | Clough died at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 27 August 1916 of injuries sustained three days earlier in a railway accident while examining rocks in a narrow cutting . |
| 7 | The linesman saw the incident and McDonough has been sent off twice and suspended three times this season . |
| 8 | ‘ I will continue to train and may play in the reserves next season in case of emergencies , ’ added the U's boss , who has been sent off twice and suspended three times during this campaign . |
| 9 | The President said Parliament would be allowed a free vote on the reintroduction of the death penalty , which de Klerk suspended three years ago . |
| 10 | Past the school I walked through a stone gate manned by two uniformed guards into the first courtyard ( the palace has fifteen ) , which is overlooked by a high drumtower , used three times a day to summon the household for prayers . |
| 11 | Steven Osbourne , 30 , used three lines nearly every day for six months — sometimes for 22 hours at a time — to ring the Wheel of Fortune . |
| 12 | The second dimension used three variables : whether the state is unitary and centralized or federal and dispersed ; whether the legislature has one or two ( strong ) chambers ; and whether there is an unwritten or a written , rigid constitution . |
| 13 | Effectively , therefore , the PESC system used three types of money , i.e. constant ( or survey prices ) for planning , constant prices plus RPE for spending , and current prices for monitoring . |
| 14 | Accordingly Nutley used three measures of accessibility in a study of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland , namely travel timings from a central point , shortest paths through a network between every pair of nodes , and potential surfaces ; and in yet another study of Scotland , Nutley ( 1980b ) used multiple regression to test both objective ( i.e. bus capacity ) and subjective ( i.e. people 's perceptions ) measures of accessibility . |
| 15 | He used three kinds of diplomacy to achieve his aim . |
| 16 | We used three kinds or sonar apparatus . |
| 17 | But Husam Mohammadamin , the Iraqi official coordinating the movements of the UN inspectors , said : ‘ They visited three sites . |
| 18 | For example , woodwork , sewing and cookery were available at one centre only , which Contact visited three days a week . |
| 19 | When my right hon. Friend the Minister of State next has contact with the Indonesian ambassador , will he express the abhorrence of the House at the indiscriminate shooting of men , women and children in Dili , which I visited three years ago with other hon. Members ? |
| 20 | She only weighed three pounds . |
| 21 | But this is by no means the biggest , in a recent Japanese display a mortar which weighed three quarters of a ton and had a diameter of four feet was let off . |
| 22 | The embalming involved three stages , a précis of which was published by Jessie Dobson in 1953 in the Journal of the History of Medicine . |
| 23 | The research involved three stages . |
| 24 | ( It may seem ironical that the initial question of whether the case should go to arbitration or trial involved three hearings — two in the county court and one in the Court of Appeal . ) |
| 25 | In one period of three days , out-of-hours work involved three workers in 44 hours of work , on a Friday night , Saturday and Monday night . |
| 26 | The car three ahead of him moved three yards . |
| 27 | It moved three quarters of a mile downwind where it managed to hold station under its own power . |
| 28 | On Wednesday , hundreds of police backed by armoured cars assaulted three hideouts in Assiut , the southern university town which was one of the birthplaces of the militant el-Gama'a el-Islamiya ( Islamic Group ) and scene of a militant uprising in 1981 . |
| 29 | A far more impressive performance was turned in by Katabatic , who defeated three rivals in the Aintree Chase and may be seen out again before the season ends . |
| 30 | They drew three coverts blank , found at a fourth , but lost the line in less than a mile . |