Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thurston , had arrived with a load of ammunition for the Beaufighters on 7th , but had been delayed three days in leaving again due to a heavy swell on the sea . |
| 2 | Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS . |
| 3 | Gary Gavin , who 's twenty-four , has been given three life sentences for a series of sex assaults on women , girls and young boys . |
| 4 | Kisekka , who was appointed Vice-President , was in his mid-70s and reported to be in poor health ; in February 1988 he had been given three deputies to ease his workload . |
| 5 | His assailants next told him that they had been given three pounds each ‘ to do you up tonight ’ by the ‘ drug squad ’ detective with whom he was already unpleasantly familiar . |
| 6 | And Altovar Limited has been given three months to pay the eight thousand pound fine . |
| 7 | I had a good job as an electronics engineer and have just been given three months notice , losing all my pension rights after working 26 years for the same company . |
| 8 | ‘ I have a dog as big as me and it 's been poisoned three times . ’ |
| 9 | Without a photo-pass hanging from his left lapel , he was uncomfortably conspicuous ; his identity had been checked three times since Amaranth had dropped him . |
| 10 | The evergreen heart-throb thought he should be an expert on the subject having been wed three times . |
| 11 | ‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine . |
| 12 | The steadings had been built three sides of a square , with the fourth side open to the road . |
| 13 | It had been decided three people might overwhelm the man they were calling on . |
| 14 | That question has been answered three days running . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm now going through what I experienced at Rosyth , except that Eastern Electricity had been privatised three years before I joined whereas the dockyard was contractorised only a month before . ’ |
| 16 | I had been offered three rehearsals plus some sessions with the singers . |
| 17 | The Rev. Francis Lambert had only been ordained three weeks before his death , the dedication of this window taking place on Sept. 4th 1892 . |
| 18 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 19 | The current head of state , President Omar Bongo , succeeded to the Presidency in 1967 on the death of Gabon 's first President , Léon M'Ba , and has been re-elected three times for successive seven-year terms , most recently in November 1986 [ see p. 35047 ] . |
| 20 | It has had over the years to be much restored , having been damaged three times by earthquakes and also outrageously neglected by the community of monks , who seem to have had an unnatural taste for litigation — one lawsuit between them and the locality lasted almost throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | MORE than half a million children have been spared three hours of national curriculum maths tests today . |
| 22 | George Scott , Winston 's brother , has been arrested three times in the last three months , and Mark Braithwaite 's brother Gregory is stopped and questioned constantly . |
| 23 | I think it was Professor Thomas Torrance who replied to a question concerning his ‘ conversion ‘ with the reply : ‘ I have been converted three times . |
| 24 | their father 's land having been split three ways among his sons . |
| 25 | PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force . |
| 26 | ‘ A prisoner , who it was alleged had recently been refused Compassionate Home Leave to visit a dangerously ill relative , had already been allowed three visits over a period of three weeks . |
| 27 | And then , too , he had been allowed three days of parole some weeks earlier . |
| 28 | A favourite a couple of years ago was a letter issued from an American bank that had been issued three years previously . ’ |
| 29 | Neil Kinnock has been sent three Tyler missives and responded , albeit in plain prose . |
| 30 | This mass migration to the inland has only been recorded three times in the past century , and scientists are tagging thousands of birds , you attempt to get a log of the pelican 's travels and try to understand what makes them leave their normally safe havens . |