Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was shot five times in a taxi cab in June , two months after being beaten by thugs with baseball bats . |
| 2 | This was an action that he was to repeat many times before any true subjugation of the Saxons was achieved . |
| 3 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
| 4 | At the Sheffield Arena , he was magnified 10 times on a giant screen , the better for 8,000 party followers to see him . |
| 5 | He was hit several times and died shortly afterwards . |
| 6 | The shooting took place in the Highfield Estate off the Shankill Road and local people said he was hit several times in the head by gunmen who sped from the scene in a car . |
| 7 | He was stabbed 8 times in the lungs and intestines in a frenzied attack at the Plough pub in Bicester . |
| 8 | 9 months ago , he was stabbed 6 times in a robbery at his clock shop in Witney . |
| 9 | Graham Townsend was alone in his shop at three fifteen this afternoon … details of what happened are sketchy … but he was stabbed several times in the chest by one of three youths who were trying to steal jewellery … they ran off … and Mr Townsend called an ambulance … a neighbour came to his aid . |
| 10 | A man is being treated for a partially-collapsed lung after he was stabbed several times in the arms and body . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was examined several times by Dr Crockett in his surgery , but was never told a kidney would be removed . |
| 13 | He was examined several times by Dr Crockett in his surgery , but was never told a kidney would be removed . |
| 14 | He suffered constantly from fever ; he was frequently threatened by bandits and once nearly murdered ; he was injured several times ; he endured hot summers and cold winters and periodical earthquakes . |
| 15 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 16 | He was docked four times on his way to reaching his first one day century . |
| 17 | It was a promise he was to keep many times . |
| 18 | He was banned five times between 1964 and 1967 but his flexibility as a player was such that Bremner played as a winger and a sweeper for Leeds United before he became the club 's midfield dynamo . |
| 19 | and Scott 's a bit more sensitive like , you know , because he was crying last time , Laura said he was nearly crying over it |
| 20 | He still had a low boredom threshold — which was why he was spending less time going to Equity Council meetings . |
| 21 | He was wounded eight times altogether , and on the last occasion he succeeded in getting into the air before the scars were properly healed . |
| 22 | Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John Finn set up a .50 calibre gun and fired on the attackers , he was wounded several times but continued to fight back , later he was awarded the Medal of Honour . |
| 23 | Over a period of about a year he was regressed six times at regular intervals . |
| 24 | In 1888 he played in three tests for the Australians touring in England and he was capped three times for England , playing in South Africa in 1895–6 and in the West Indies in 1896–7 . |
| 25 | He was woken some time later by being kicked in the backside quite painfully . |
| 26 | One French officer describes how he was buried three times that day in his trench , and dug out each time by his men . |
| 27 | He was imprisoned three times for his activities , serving 12 years of a 15-year sentence on terrorism charges before being released in November 1988 on health grounds [ see p. 36913 ] ; he was elected PAC president in 1986 while a prisoner [ see p. 35365 ] . |
| 28 | His 34 , though , was the best score of the day ( and he was dropped three times , at 17 , 19 and 25 ) as India declined to 135 for 5 ( Tendulkar 31 , nightwatchman Ruju 1 ) by the close , with the fiery Hughes taking three wickets . |