Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj] time [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection . |
| 2 | They 're alright down here , at least they were the last time we had them . |
| 3 | This was the fifth time I had him on the floor , so the referee was right to stop it ’ . |
| 4 | It was the twentieth time he had confessed such ignorance , but for the twentieth time it did not satisfy Jane Sharpe who sat naked to the waist at the room 's small dressing-table . |
| 5 | It was the second time they had broken up and been reconciled . |
| 6 | This was the second time they had done the walk , and they found it tougher than in previous years . |
| 7 | It was the second time I had failed to finish an AAA Championship and I vowed to do better . |
| 8 | That was the second time he had been saved from drowning . |
| 9 | It was the second time he had heard the term . |
| 10 | It was the second time he had ignored the ban — he competed in a road race in Cardiff last month . |
| 11 | After drinking with a friend , Mr. Clarkson , in 1803 , he declares it was the best time he had had since he came into Westmorland . |
| 12 | ‘ That was the only time I had contact with him . |
| 13 | That was the only time I had known real fear . |
| 14 | It was the only time she had seen her old friend in tears . |
| 15 | This was the first time we had returned to Eggleston Burn since a summer visit in search of the Grass of Parnassus and butterwort that grow in its boggy flushes . |
| 16 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 17 | Visits supervisor Jenny Wallace said of the group : ‘ This was the first time we had welcomed a party from the Salvation Army . |
| 18 | ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says . |
| 19 | that was the first time we had an inkling there was anything , and that was the Sunday before we moved and he said do you mind if I come and bring the shed up and then I can stop in there and I go and have , a , anyway , he came with Alan and she made you a cup of coffee did n't she ? |
| 20 | The Home Secretary 's reserve powers were not intended to be used frequently and this was the first time they had been used . |
| 21 | This was the first time they had reached the second round and it was reflected in the atmosphere , though the official attendance of 3,877 , a record for the purpose-built Meadow Park ground , was hardly accurate . |
| 22 | Their 4-1 defeat by Australia here last year was the first time they had lost a one-day series at home . |
| 23 | Although they had often stayed in the country , this was the first time they had lived in it , and that makes all the difference . |
| 24 | It was the first time they had ever spoken of the affection they felt . |
| 25 | It was the first time they had met although he had known of her existence as he had of all the handful of people who lived , as the Lydsett villagers said , ‘ t' other side of the gate ’ . |
| 26 | Many speakers rose to say that this was the first time they had actually met so-and-so , although they had spent hours communicating with them electronically . |
| 27 | It was the first time they had conceded four goals at home since the Manchester United of Charlton , Law and Best rammed four past them in 1969 . |
| 28 | Rumours about them had circulated for several years but this was the first time they had been linked by a named source — former US ambassador Lewis Fields . |
| 29 | It was the first time they had been alone together since Abbotsfield . |
| 30 | Duncan realized that this was the first time they had discussed their private lives since they had met . |