Example sentences of "be [adv] the [num ord] time [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , you were right the first time boy ! |
| 2 | ‘ This is only the second time Derry has got through to the final in 35 years , so tickets this year are like gold dust , ’ he said . |
| 3 | This is not the first time golf has stumbled on its projected step into the 21st century . |
| 4 | This is not the first time Seitz had pondered what Digest calls ‘ the Norman puzzle ’ . |
| 5 | It is not the first time Robins has been angry at deals negotiated by his predecessor . |
| 6 | This is not the first time Mr Gorbachev has shown his brutal streak . |
| 7 | It 's not the first time Faringdon 's been flooded , but in living memory this may be the worst deluge |
| 8 | It 's not the first time Birdland has been hit by thieves , last year parrots were stolen in a similar raid . |
| 9 | It 's not the first time Birdland has been hit by thieves , last year parrots were stolen in a similar raid . |
| 10 | It 's not the first time punters , who bet £1.6billion a year just on the dogs , have found themselves cornered in the doghouse . |
| 11 | It 's not the first time airmen have died in this way near Upper Heyford. 23 years ago , the pilot of a Voodoo jet reconaissance aircraft crashed into a tree after just managing to clear the roof of Steeple Aston school . |
| 12 | Well , first of all , I 've heard that — it 's not the first time he 's been arrested , and it 's not the first time de-programmers have been arrested . |
| 13 | It 's not the first time Barphone has been a takeover target . |
| 14 | It 's not the first time Milton Keynes has been hit by firebombers . |
| 15 | It was only the second time Meg had seen Arthur really angry . |
| 16 | It was only the third time Huntworth has got round in his last 13 races under Rules , but those three completions have brought three wins . |
| 17 | It was not the first time Bill had felt let down by Mandy . |
| 18 | It was not the first time Stumpf 's skills had been put to such use . |
| 19 | This was not the first time Alice had caught suggestions that Jasper liked being bound over — needed the edge it put on life . |
| 20 | This was not the first time feminists had mobilized politically around religion , both to mount a searching critique of patriarchal society and to envisage more egalitarian forms of social organization . |
| 21 | ‘ The bomb in Newtownards was not the first time Connors Chemists has had to cope with the aftermath of a blast . ’ |
| 22 | Not that I complained because I was having a great time with it , but I noticed that there were a few changes and when I went back to England from Mustique , that was probably the last time MainMan existed . |
| 23 | It was also the first time Liverpool had gone ahead of their rivals — 45 wins to 44 — since the derby series , than at 127 games , began . |
| 24 | It was n't the first time Berowne had spent the night in St Matthew 's church vestry . ’ |
| 25 | But this was n't the first time Perkins had been charged with drug possession in Britain . |
| 26 | It was n't the first time Isabel had said the words . |
| 27 | It was n't the first time Juliet had wished she were n't an only child . |
| 28 | It was n't the first time Luke had contacted her since their sight seeing expedition — the flowers that by now she was coming to expect had arrived promptly next day , and with them a handwritten note — but it was the first time that she had heard his voice . |