Example sentences of "[was/were] not the [adj] time [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not the only time Poindexter had to shut North up : partly because North genuinely did not know how widely the secret was known , but partly because he could hardly resist it anyway . |
| 2 | It was not the first time Bill had felt let down by Mandy . |
| 3 | It was not the first time Stumpf 's skills had been put to such use . |
| 4 | This was not the first time Alice had caught suggestions that Jasper liked being bound over — needed the edge it put on life . |
| 5 | ‘ The bomb in Newtownards was not the first time Connors Chemists has had to cope with the aftermath of a blast . ’ |
| 6 | It was n't the first time Berowne had spent the night in St Matthew 's church vestry . ’ |
| 7 | But this was n't the first time Perkins had been charged with drug possession in Britain . |
| 8 | It was n't the first time Isabel had said the words . |
| 9 | It was n't the first time Juliet had wished she were n't an only child . |
| 10 | It was n't the first time Luke had contacted her since their sight seeing expedition — the flowers that by now she was coming to expect had arrived promptly next day , and with them a handwritten note — but it was the first time that she had heard his voice . |