Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] for three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fullback Marty Roebuck continues to be in the wars and suffered a broken jaw in a pre-season club trial , while Test hooker Phil Kearns has been sidelined for three weeks with knee trouble . |
| 2 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 3 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 4 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 5 | A burglar who fell through the roof of a shop and down a ventilator shaft has been jailed for three years . |
| 6 | A solicitor , Angus Diggle , has been jailed for three years for attempted rape in Scotland . |
| 7 | A man has been jailed for three months for shooting dead a pair of swans . |
| 8 | FORMER Liverpool City Council trade unionist Tony Gavin , who stole welfare funds , has been jailed for three months . |
| 9 | THE protection order on the River Tay , which prohibits fishing for freshwater species without official permits , has been continued for three years by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang . |
| 10 | Barry Crawley , the Saracens No 8 , has been suspended for three weeks after being identified as the player who punched Gloucester scrum-half Marcus Hannaford , out for five weeks with an eye injury . |
| 11 | and there 's more news today on the incident in which scrum-half Hannaford fractured his eye socket … the Saracens number eight Barry Crawley who threw the punch in the league game last week has been suspended for three weeks … |
| 12 | FORMER British light-heavywight champion Steve McCarthy has been suspended for three months , fined £1,000 and banned from fighting abroad by the British Board of Control after being disqualified in the third round of a bout with Darius Michalczeski in Hamburg in September . |
| 13 | Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks . |
| 14 | She was of course referring to the Salisbury Annual Pleasure Fair that has been held for three days commencing on the third Monday in October for the last seven hundred years . |
| 15 | A COACH , who became so incensed with his opposite number at an U8 match in New Zealand , has been banned for three years for punching and knocking him unconscious with the result that specialist surgery might be required for a fractured cheek bone and other complications . |
| 16 | Consultation date has been picked for three weeks on Tuesday . |
| 17 | He left his wife six years ago and has been divorced for three years . |
| 18 | No-one has been executed for three years , human rights groups said . |
| 19 | This account of urban housing in the reign of Queen Victoria has been protracted for three reasons . |
| 20 | The budget is due now , but it has been postponed for three months . |
| 21 | EXPERT OPINION Gary Hollyhead , head chef at Sutherlands Restaurant , prefers his beef to have been hung for three weeks , for maximum tenderness and the best flavour . |
| 22 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 23 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 24 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |
| 25 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 26 | He had been banned for three years for drink-driving in January , 1991. 18-month ban A DRINK-driver fractured three ribs when his car hit a skip , Wirral magistrates were told yesterday . |
| 27 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 28 | ITV has been thrown into disarray because the current franchises have been extended for three years while the Government introduces a new free market framework . |
| 29 | These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low . |
| 30 | These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low . |