Example sentences of "[verb] [num] times for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corporation has been fined 25 times for soil contamination at its Florida plant . |
| 2 | His tally of 1,816 wickets for Lancashire is still a county record and he played 70 times for England claiming a further 252 victims . |
| 3 | For instance , Glenn Hoddle played 53 times for England but never was a team really designed to bring the best out of his brilliant ability , albeit in a much different form to Gascoigne 's style . |
| 4 | ‘ We are talking about a man who played 90 times for England and if he had n't been injured would certainly have played over 100 . |
| 5 | Wirral Athletic Res defeated Old Red Lion 32 and Dave Edwards scored three times for Nags Head in a 3-0 success against Princes Hotel . |
| 6 | Kevin Walsh scored three times for Sandon ( Billy Hardacre ) in their 4-2 win at Croxteth RBL , while in division one , Etnaward ( Franny Hyland 2 , Simon Connolly ) defeated Flat Iron 3-1 . |
| 7 | APH ( Dave Rowan 3 , Tom Kearney , Ben Ellis , Dave Hoey ) won 7-1 against Woolton ( John Kennedy ) , Mike Windle scored four times for CADWA ( Tony Purcell , Lee Begley , Dave Whitby ) in their 8-0 success over Stapleton , Mossley Hill ( Pond 2 , Davies 2 , Brown ) won 5-3 against Malvern ( Tottey 2 , Bennett ) , Electric Supply ( Clint Hargreaves 3 , Andy Jennings , Craig Roberts ) beat Out Lane ( Aldridge 2 ) 5-2 and unbeaten South Hill ( Kevin Nolan 2 , Mark Ellison , Marvin Grugel ) won 4-0 against Venny . |
| 8 | Former Stanley stalwarts include Harry Potts , who managed Burnley 's 1960 championship side ; inside forward Geoff Strong who starred for Arsenal and Liverpool but in 33 swansong games for Coventry never scored a goal ; Tommy Cummings who played 434 times for Burnley and thrice for England B ; Gordon Pallister , now 75 , who had 210 matches at Barnsley and Jack Howarth , a bairn at 47 , whose travels embraced 421 games for the late and lamented Aldershot . |
| 9 | All this , besides the preliminary pasting of the wrapper , coloured paper and sandpaper had to be done 144 times for 2¼d , and even this is not all , for every drawer and case have to be fitted together , and the packets tied up with hemp . |
| 10 | Under layers of emulsion paint were splendid oak doors , one of which John has copied three times for customers . |
| 11 | He has played 10 times for Wales . |
| 12 | Robinson , who has scored 246 tries for West , is a former county captain who has played 60 times for Durham . |
| 13 | He 's been arrested 32 times for shoplifting , but each time magistrates ruled the offences were n't serious enough for him to be detained , where he might have got the treatment he needs . |
| 14 | F-WORD IS CHOPPED 30 TIMES FOR TELLY DIE HARD |
| 15 | Lineker has appeared 45 times for England and scored 29 goals ; Bull has played for 60 minutes and scored one , a smartly taken opportunity against Scotland in May . |
| 16 | And the mighty Red River , having been dammed six times for hydro-power , was actually the motionless mud-coloured Town Lake in the middle of Austin , the State Capital of Texas . |
| 17 | Jonny Searle , who rowed three times for Oxford , and his younger brother , Greg , both won world junior gold medals while at Hampton School . |
| 18 | Emily was imprisoned eight times for stone-throwing , window-breaking , and setting fire to postboxes ; she was forcibly fed over one hundred times , mainly during her last imprisonment . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sansom , capped 86 times for England , was still talking to friends in the players ' bar at Stockport County last night when the rest of the squad left on the team bus after their 2-1 aggregate victory . |
| 21 | In addition to all the wickets , Tribe passed 1000 runs seven times for Northants . |