Example sentences of "[pers pn] was not the [adj] 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 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 . |
| 18 | It was not the only time that the Home Secretary , Sir George Grey , was identified as a sentimentalist . |
| 19 | Now he saw that it was not the right time . |
| 20 | It was not the last time that Mary Armour concluded that women artists were consigned to a different class of compartment . |