Example sentences of "but [pers pn] was [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was a magical time because running through everything like a fine , golden thread was the knowledge that we loved one another . |
| 2 | The football might n't have been very good but it was a great time , magic . |
| 3 | Everybody in Avonlea was very kind to them , but it was a sad time . |
| 4 | We called the police and ambulance but it was a long time before the police arrived . |
| 5 | Several workers suggested that there must be a tissue phase , in which the Plasmodium went to ground , but it was a long time before objects , evidently forms of the parasite , were recognized in microscopic sections of the spleen and liver of infected domestic fowl , monkeys and finally man . |
| 6 | Some hours later — no one counted , but it was a long time — eight soaking , snow-covered individuals just — but only just — on the right side of hypothermia made it to the main Teesdale road , which snow ploughs had kept open . |
| 7 | ‘ But it was a long time ago , before … ’ |
| 8 | Not a dish for a dieter , she allowed , but it was a long time since she 'd enjoyed anything quite so much . |
| 9 | Lord , Ellie , but it was a long time ago , and what a green girl I was . |
| 10 | But it was a long time ago and other things have happened since . ’ |
| 11 | It must all sound rather tame to today 's children , but it was a happy time ; a time of predictable routine , which gave us a sense of security . |
| 12 | We issued a statement pointing out that she was n't talking to the kidnappers in Beirut , and sent a letter to that effect to every MP , but it was a busy time and no-one really noticed . |
| 13 | When I arrived on the scene , Joe was trying to come to terms with the situation but it was a difficult time all round . |
| 14 | Brian , a twenty-year-old draughtsman , had seen it all before , but it was the first time for Jane , his nineteen-year-old wife , whose daytime job is as a telephonist . |
| 15 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 16 | Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind . |
| 17 | But it was the first time Saddam Hussein had ever offered to withdraw his troops from Kuwait . |
| 18 | But it was the first time these five principles had been drawn together and proclaimed specifically for the Gulf . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But it was the first time they had ever lived privately together . |
| 21 | ‘ Richard has done it before , but it was the first time I have abseiled down a mine-shaft and the last , ’ said John , of Whitton Close , Acklam , Middlesbrough . |