Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 2 | One dairy farm he visited on the way to Albuquerque had 750 cows which were milked three times a day through a 24/24 side-exit herringbone parlour . |
| 3 | Allen ( VUPP ) secured the seventh seat with 6,114 votes from Erwin ( Un ) , runner-up , with 6,066 votes , a difference of 48 votes which was covered eighty-four times by 4052 non-transferable votes . |
| 4 | The difference between O'Hanlon and News ( both SDLP ) , who was elected seventh , was only 96 , which was covered thirty-eight times by non-transferable votes . |
| 5 | The difference between Brookeborough ( UPNI ) , elected seventh , and Oliver was a mere twenty votes which was covered seventy-six times by 1507 non-transferable votes ( see below ) . |
| 6 | The most frequently cited thesis is number 206 , which was cited 11 times . |
| 7 | A village which was flooded three times in a year has been celebrating the fact that it will never happen again . |
| 8 | At 7pm he telephoned his brother-in-law Paul Caddick , a police sergeant , and when he arrived , after eventually finding the key to the garage door under a mat , he discovered Paula 's body hanging from a rope which was wrapped four times around a beam . |
| 9 | Allison Dutton , 24 , was working late at her office in Cherbourg , France , where she had moved to live with her fiance , when she was stabbed 18 times . |
| 10 | She was stabbed three times , but pursued the man for 50 yards , calling for help on her radio , before she collapsed . |
| 11 | She was stabbed 15 times with scissors . |
| 12 | She had tried everything , including osteopaths , chiropractors , physiotherapy , traction and , finally , pain-killers which she was taking four times a day , every day . |
| 13 | She was to return four times , each time learning more about the ecology and the people . |
| 14 | At Alcala 's adult education centre , one toothless old woman in slippers sang her a flamenco lament about a lovely but strong-headed girl from the next village who was stabbed seven times by her jealous husband . |
| 15 | The court heard that Mr Farmer , who was shot four times , died saving his father Robert by pushing him to the floor and shouting a warning when he spotted the gunman . |
| 16 | Miss McCloskey , who was capped four times by the Northern Ireland soccer team and played hockey and handball , will receive a lump sum of £250,000 under the terms of a structured settlement . |
| 17 | Also representing Scotland for the first time today will be the Ferguslie all-rounder , Stuart Kennedy , who follows in the footsteps of brother , Iain , who was capped six times . |
| 18 | Coroner Clifford Tughan heard yesterday that two masked gunmen burst into the house and shot the Belfast Telegraph newsboy , who was wounded 17 times by bullets and fragments . |
| 19 | And one was striking one time and the other one the other . |
| 20 | There were all sorts of jokes about National Service and this was going to be one of them — the barracks filled with misfits who no more wanted to wear a khaki uniform than they felt like taking poison ( which some of them thought was what they were given three times a day in the cookhouse ) . |
| 21 | where my mum and dad live it 's not that bad an area yet they were burgled four times and that they get |
| 22 | Like , it used to be that [ place ] station might be attacked once or twice a year , like it was hit five times in one night this year … |
| 23 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 24 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 25 | He was shot five times in a taxi cab in June , two months after being beaten by thugs with baseball bats . |
| 26 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
| 27 | At the Sheffield Arena , he was magnified 10 times on a giant screen , the better for 8,000 party followers to see him . |
| 28 | He was stabbed 8 times in the lungs and intestines in a frenzied attack at the Plough pub in Bicester . |
| 29 | 9 months ago , he was stabbed 6 times in a robbery at his clock shop in Witney . |
| 30 | Griffin ran into problems quite early , against MCC in fact , at Lord 's , where he was called three times fro throwing and once , simultaneously , for dragging . |