Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] not the [num ord] time " in BNC.
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1 | It was not the first time the 48-year-old comedian and doctor had pooped the party . |
2 | It was not the first time , but it was the worst . |
3 | It was not the first time he had seen such symptoms . |
4 | It was not the first time Bill had felt let down by Mandy . |
5 | It was not the first time Stumpf 's skills had been put to such use . |
6 | It was not the first time that Orton , the veteran Malawi politician , had suffered this sort of torture . |
7 | It was not the first time he had come home covered in blood . |
8 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
9 | It was not the first time he had been the recipient of an undiplomatic reference to the absence of colonial genes in Alexei 's physique , manner and appearance . |
10 | It was not the first time they had been told this . |
11 | It was not the first time that Islamist sympathizers had succeeded in having action taken against a literary work — this had happened in 1959 and especially since the late 1980s . |
12 | It was not the first time they had played this mischievous game with each other , on stage . |
13 | Whilst the venue on this occasion was central and it was not the first time the A.G.M. had been held on a Friday evening , the Committee appreciates that perhaps the idea of holding the Meeting on the evening before the Dinner Dance to enable those travelling to London to attend both events was not a good one . |
14 | It was not the first time I had seen " my " insects . |
15 | It was not the first time that Sir Michael had indicated his view that Mr Hussey should leave his post as chairman . |
16 | It was not the first time that Sir Michael had indicated his view that Mr Hussey should leave his post as chairman . |
17 | It was not the last time that Mary Armour concluded that women artists were consigned to a different class of compartment . |