Example sentences of "[coord] was [verb] [det] time " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , as I was making my way back to this guest house this evening , I glanced back over my shoulder on a number of occasions and was met each time by a view of the sun setting behind that great spire .
2 Pc Dines tried to restrain Youngman and was struck several times about the head .
3 ‘ Thompson is a street fighter and was warned several times for outlaw punches , ’ says Jack .
4 This was commissioned by the thrustful chatelain of Pau , Gaston Phoebus , from his distinguished military architect , Sicord de Lord at ; and was built some time in the 1370s .
5 The book sold well , and was republished many times in the following decades .
6 The column was a popular feature and was revived several times .
7 In 1963 , Butler and Stokes began a series of surveys which set a new pattern , and a new standard , for the study of voting behaviour in Britain : their sample was large , nation-wide , and was interviewed several times between 1963 and 1970 ; and the authors were concerned to apply a rigour that had been absent from most of the earlier single constituency studies of electoral choice .
8 The Ridge was a favourite target for Stuka dive-bombers and was attacked several times each day .
9 Having spent almost all this money on adventurous travelling in South America , the United States , and Canada , he returned in 1908 and was rescued this time by his brother , who employed him as manager of his motor-car showroom in Brighton .
10 Ironically I was also third in the trials before Paris , but was sent that time and , as I have said , did better than the other two . ’
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