Example sentences of "because [pers pn] was [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The er secretary went because he was a full time official . |
| 2 | The coffin was carried on a horse-drawn cart because it was a long time before a motor hearse became available . |
| 3 | They sat together , in the small-sized chairs brought up by Balor , and ate their breakfasts and told one another was n't this the finest meal ever and would they all look at the roasting oxen , because it was a long time , well it was years , really , since any of them had seen such a sight . |
| 4 | Maybe it was because it was a first time and she was n't going to be a good mother , like some humans . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was so proud that day because it was the first time I wore a rather special red coat with matching red hat . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He admits to being nervous because it was the first time this kind of operation was carried out . |
| 11 | Charles had chosen to stay in Scotland because it was the perfect time of year for all the activities he enjoyed there . |
| 12 | The sun was large in the sky because it was the hottest time of year , and there were no clouds . |
| 13 | because it was the same time . |
| 14 | I knew I 'd had a letter from him then , because it was the last time we were apart before he was called up . ’ |
| 15 | And it was not only because it was the third time I had heard precisely how that acrobatic quartet achieved congress . |