Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke once during the second reading debate , spoke or intervened thirteen times in committee , once on report , and once on third reading . |
| 2 | The victim was confronted by a group of youths and stabbed four times as he walked home at Bletchley in Milton Keynes . |
| 3 | He was punched and kicked to the ground and stabbed three times in the back . |
| 4 | Born in Liverpool to a West African father in 1951 , Conteh won ABA , British and Commonwealth titles but was stripped of his world title by the World Boxing Council for failing to go through with a contracted defence in 1977 and failed three times to regain the championship before retiring in 1981 . |
| 5 | Like so much else in these cantos , the last line is midleading , since it suggests it was by an edict of Henry III that the Magna Charta was sent to all cathedrals and read four times a year , whereas Coke 's Institutes make it clear that this was on the contrary an enactment of Edward I. ‘ Selinunte ’ and ‘ Akragas ’ ( the old name of Agrigento ) are ancient Greek cities in Sicily . |
| 6 | Other aspects of packaging may emphasise the convenience of the pack , as for example in cigarette packets which may be opened and reopened several times , or beer cans , which can be opened safely by pulling a ring . |
| 7 | Each point is clearly and simply made and reinforced seven times . |
| 8 | This process is called modularization ; data is written once and used many times in different applications . |
| 9 | In fact , while an oil cargo could be sold and resold several times a day under the right market conditions , very few North Atlantic or Baltic general cargo shipments are sold on the water . |
| 10 | The likelihood , indeed , is that they would have been repeated and rehearsed many times ( 'now that 's a very good point you 're making there — I wonder if you could conceivably contrive to put it a little more precisely' ) . |
| 11 | And stopped many times . ’ |
| 12 | The train was slow and stopped several times for no reason we knew of and with no apparent likelihood of continuing . |
| 13 | Gerald has been married and divorced 4 times . |
| 14 | The linesman saw the incident and McDonough has been sent off twice and suspended three times this season . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | She landed on the grass and bounced three times and finally came to rest . |
| 17 | Gorman is based in Letterkenny and played 20 times for the first team last season scoring three goals . |
| 18 | Progress was slow , and delayed several times . |
| 19 | She paused and snorted several times . |
| 20 | In his eagerness to escape the encroaching flames , he worked the action and fired three times in rapid succession . |
| 21 | The Arabist listened to him calmly and nodded several times . |
| 22 | The pond must be carefully scrubbed and rinsed several times before putting the fish back . |
| 23 | His chief failing was a habit of cracking heavy pedantic jokes ; he was unable to let a good idea drop , and remarked several times during the course of the film that the heroine looked like she ought to be playing the horse . |
| 24 | The stork has been flying low and landed three times in the Surrey area recently , visiting . |
| 25 | He was elected a fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society in 1895 , and served three times as its president ( 1918–19 , 1928–9 , and 1938–45 ) . |
| 26 | His discussion paper on the subject had now been drafted and redrafted several times . |
| 27 | This tensing should be held for a count of five , then released , and repeated several times . |
| 28 | She knelt beside me , saying nothing , and tapped three times on my back ; I had to resist the urge to ask in a Boris Karloff voice : ‘ Is there anybody there ? ’ |
| 29 | We stumbled and fell many times , and yet always managed to struggle up again and continue . |
| 30 | I stopped , felt better , then started again and felt ten times worse . |