Example sentences of "[pers pn] was the [adj] time [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know if it was the first time since his appointment as executive chef at the Carlton Tower in 1968 , but I do know it was a rare occurrence to see him even emerge from his kitchen , let alone dine . |
| 2 | It was the first time since her death that he had been able to think of it with anything like acceptance . |
| 3 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 4 | It was the first time since the store opened 80 years ago . |
| 5 | Taylor said enthusiastically : ‘ After the win against Turkey , it was the first time since I 've been England manager that I 've gone back into the dressing room and felt the emotions I did as a club manager . |
| 6 | Their spirits had parted , and though their bodies stayed together for a while longer , it was the first time since they had met that they found it difficult to talk . |
| 7 | It was the best time because not only were there so many cars , but they went slowly enough for Denise to write down their numbers and makes as Tony shouted them out . |
| 8 | It was the right time as she came around to the front of the house . |
| 9 | It was the third time since the Temple Mount killings in October that the United States had declined to use its veto against a Security Council resolution harshly critical of Israel [ see pp. 37759-60 ] . |
| 10 | Malcolm , myself and Chris went round I think it was two days before , looked for the well it 's a lot tidier that it was the previous time because of the new racking . |