Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] time it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advent of the new political regime changed this ; for the first time it was possible to conceive of a legal order which rested on a basis different from that of the civil law . |
| 2 | Last year also for the first time it was televised by Yorkshire Television . |
| 3 | When I took Jack [ Rosenthal ] home for the first time it was my parents ' silver wedding anniversary . |
| 4 | The intactness of the tomb meant that for the first time it was possible to analyse fully how the many objects found within it were used , and their ritual and social implications within the Sicàn culture better understood . |
| 5 | For the first time it was me who provoked the break in a relationship . |
| 6 | A master who freed a slave could take back his freedom three times in succession ; after the third time it was assumed that the judgement of the master could no longer be trusted . |
| 7 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |