Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , and there was the last time I cut it I remember . |
| 2 | Spring is in the air and it 's the perfect time to start preparing your body for those glorious summer months . |
| 3 | ‘ I took Fleck off and that did n't work so I took Le Saux off , put Eddie up front and he got a vital goal — and it 's the second time he 's done that for us . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll tell you what , I love my holiday when we went on our own and it 's the best time we 've ever had . |
| 5 | And it 's the first time since you 're . |
| 6 | Now I mentioned that this was Chest Week and it 's the first time that the er Chest , Heart and Stroke Association have had a , a , a week specifically aimed at people with chest problems , or , or looking at chest problems . |
| 7 | ‘ Four o'clock , ’ Luke murmured huskily , ‘ and it 's the damnedest time to say what I want to say — what I 've wanted to say many times … |
| 8 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
| 9 | Lord Aldington replied : ‘ This will be the hundredth time you say what I 've said is a lie , and it is the hundredth time you have made me very angry . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd always wanted to work with Mutt Lange ; I 've actually tried to work with Mutt since 1984 , but he was always busy on a project , but he wanted to do it and it was the right time for both of us . |
| 11 | And it was the one time that it mattered more than anything else . ’ |
| 12 | The meeting was held in Harvey Haddon Stadium in Nottingham , and it was the first time that I had ever been on an Inter-City train . |
| 13 | Simon said , and it was the first time she had heard that name . |
| 14 | " He does n't like me very much , " I explained , and it was the first time I 'd ever realized that " It was a very sad thing not to be liked by your own father , and obviously it must be just as sad not to like your only daughter . |
| 15 | ‘ We made it up between us , ’ she said , ‘ and it was the first time ever we two met outside these walls . |
| 16 | Prior Robert , still stonily silent and shocked out of his normal studied dignity , led away his shattered clerk to the second of the two penitentiary cells ; and it was the first time , as far as Cadfael could recall , that the two had ever been occupied at the same time . |
| 17 | I thought it was interesting as well that the stuff I got from the I and R V with it , was a lot about audio description and the tape and how much it cost and how wonderful this was and it was the first time it had ever been done , but there was nothing , as is always the case , there was nothing actually about what the film was about , it was full of sort of , this is the first time it 's done , but nothing about sort of this is the film about , about this , this is what the story 's about , you know . |
| 18 | ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says . |
| 19 | ‘ The rallies were a spontaneous reaction to the troubles of the time and it was the first time there had been any movement like it in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | ‘ I first came across Virginia Woolf through Orlando when I was a teenage person and it was the first time that I felt really addressed by a writer , ’ she says . |
| 21 | I once conducted a major European orchestra , a German orchestra , and I conducted the introduction Allegro of Elgar and it was the first time they 'd ever , ever played any Elgar , and they did n't like the piece . |
| 22 | He was ‘ a great Labour man ’ , a non-smoker and non-drinker , an elder of the kirk until the minister mistakenly , suggested he had a hangover — ‘ and it was the last time my grandfather was ever inside a church . |
| 23 | It was the first time she had left little Bradley , the first time she had been out to celebrate his birth — and it was the last time he would ever see his mother again . |
| 24 | Ask them how it 's being transported and what 's the expected time of arrival . |
| 25 | That is pretty obvious , but it is the first time the Najibullah government has said so . |
| 26 | But it is the first time that we have seen such a phenomenon on a large scale . |
| 27 | ‘ But it is the first time we have established formal procedures which ensure that we deliver and measure against set and agreed criteria . |
| 28 | Later , Fiat issued a statement saying it had learned of the arrests ‘ with great astonishment ’ but it is the second time the company has been involved in the ongoing scandal . |
| 29 | He made a mess of things in the park , but it 's the first time he 's got it wrong . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , fishing is my hobby , but it 's the first time I 've caught a squirrel . |