Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [was/were] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er well it er it was normal because it was the only time I , I 've heard it happen in Street anyway but there were , there was kids being sent away all the time to borstal and er for doing wrong things . |
| 2 | Running the film group for ICI gave Haslam particular pleasure because it was the first time he had ever been fully in charge of a business , which he found very challenging . |
| 3 | I was so proud that day because it was the first time I wore a rather special red coat with matching red hat . |
| 4 | I was playing loads of rave music , and at the end they were begging us not to go off because it was the first time they 'd ever heard it properly . |
| 5 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 6 | He admits to being nervous because it was the first time this kind of operation was carried out . |
| 7 | Charles had chosen to stay in Scotland because it was the perfect time of year for all the activities he enjoyed there . |
| 8 | The sun was large in the sky because it was the hottest time of year , and there were no clouds . |
| 9 | because it was the same time . |
| 10 | I knew I 'd had a letter from him then , because it was the last time we were apart before he was called up . ’ |
| 11 | And it was not only because it was the third time I had heard precisely how that acrobatic quartet achieved congress . |