Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] [art] [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guess so , it seems so , Graham , oh , he 's making people redundant , he 's gone off , it 's about the third time in three weeks take a day playing golf . |
| 2 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |
| 3 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 4 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 5 | In 1888 it was for the first time possible to go by train the whole way from Constantinople to Calais , and the Trans-Siberian railway was completed in 1904 . |
| 6 | But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member . |
| 7 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 8 | I saw it happen with Jaco Pastorius — I know what it was like the first time I heard him . |
| 9 | It was like the first time she 'd seen him , just after Peter had introduced her as his fiancée . |