Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [be] [art] first time " in BNC.

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1 It would not be the first time that it had done so .
2 It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose .
3 I pause to observe that this would not be the first time that , in this field , Parliament has conferred on the English court a jurisdiction of unlimited territorial application .
4 It would not be the first time that a Court sorcerer had been lured away from the strong pure magic of Ireland and sworn allegiance to the Dark Realm .
5 Might he not be playing a far deeper game although not a new one , since it would not be the first time that the man who hatched the plot and encouraged others most ardently to join it , should be the very one to turn his fellow conspirators over to the magistrates .
6 Would n't be the first time your husband 's come back when you did n't expect him , would it ? ’
7 It would n't be the first time .
8 There were questions he still needed to ask and it would n't be the first time that he had taken advantage of tiredness or grief .
9 I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ?
10 It would n't be the first time Littlewoods had copied a successful high street idea .
11 It would n't be the first time .
12 It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role .
13 It would n't be the first time that a man has been seduced by female beauty and been left the poorer for his pleasure , nor the first time Lotta has attempted by stealth to deprive me of something which I value . ’
14 It would n't be the first time , but I did n't say it .
15 The test car I drove had a serious wind noise problem , which will not be the first time Ford has heard that about the Escort , but it otherwise came across as well conceived — it 's easy to load and has a completely flat floor with rear seats folded — and competent .
16 This will not be the first time it has been tried , and the observations of one former planning official are worth quoting at length :
17 The World Championship match will not be the first time the two players have contested a world title .
18 If these fears prove justified , it wo n't be the first time Asian families would be forced through deliberate government policies to live in terrifying isolation .
19 ‘ I did wonder , ’ I said , ‘ but it wo n't be the first time the map 's been wrong . ’
20 ‘ It wo n't be the first time that people who think they 're in the fast track come across a roadblock and are overtaken by people in what was falsely described as the slow track . ’
21 ‘ It wo n't be the first time , ’ she muttered .
22 ‘ It wo n't be the first time I 've had to come to your rescue and haul your ass out of trouble . ’
23 probably wo n't be the first time you have to edit it either .
24 It wo n't be the first time he 's spent a night on the tiles ! ’
25 But if there is to be an Oxford mafia in Washington , it wo n't be the first time former University College students have made history .
26 Wo n't be the first time .
27 Wo n't be the first time Bob .
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