Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 2 | She was joined for a short time by another dancer back from war service , Alan Carter . |
| 3 | The case against Therese Dunne ( 42 ) , a buyer with Dunnes Stores , was halted for the second time in three months yesterday because of the alleged interference . |
| 4 | Thus Saxony was conquered for a second time . |
| 5 | The case was heard for a second time in mid-1986 , when he was convicted on six counts of espionage and sentenced to life imprisonment , but the verdict was later overturned . |
| 6 | Finally , Yusuf advanced and the thunderous roll of the Moorish drums was heard for the first time on Spanish soil . |
| 7 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 8 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 9 | One patient also had a distal gastric cancer which was resected at the same time as the colonic primary . |
| 10 | she , she was baptised at the same time as I was , you know , er , the same day , Manchester assembly , that was nineteen seventy four seventy five no , seventy four , yeah |
| 11 | In the report the former President , Chiang Kai-shek was criticized for the first time for failing to punish the officials responsible for the massacre . |
| 12 | The first PC-5A assembled in India was flown for the first time in August 1941 and one report suggests that fifty were delivered to the Indian Air Force from 1942 , but this has not been confirmed . |
| 13 | The launch of the space shuttle Columbia was delayed for the third time since May following the discovery of a fuel leak near its engines . |
| 14 | At this point I could have gone home , foreseeing a frustrating week ahead full of missed takes ; nevertheless after a few words ( all unprintable ) from Rick the cat rod was recast for a third time . |
| 15 | JANSHER KHAN narrowly avoided a ban but was fined for the second time in six weeks by the International Squash Players Association yesterday — and lost ranking points which may cost him his world No.1 spot . |
| 16 | Fighting was reported for the first time in the east Bosnian towns of Visegrad and Foca , near the Serbian border . |
| 17 | It was much more elaborate than the first of the famous series of astronomical clocks in Strasbourg Cathedral that was installed about the same time , 1350 . |
| 18 | North-East champion Brian Rushworth finished a best-ever 11th in the senior men 's race , which was won for the second time by Commonwealth Games 10,000 metres gold medallist Eamonn Martin , of Basildon . |
| 19 | The Prix de l'Avenir — Marne la Vallée , worth F30,000 was won for the first time by kayak paddler Bernard Bregeon . |
| 20 | Robin Culley was interviewed for the fiftieth time . |
| 21 | The EC markets are closely linked , points out the Meat and Livestock Commission , and , although the sudden , sharp fall in UK prices was largely irrespective of other European markets , a similar move in Continental prices was expected within a short time . |
| 22 | Guildford skatepark was demolished and as a result Farnborough was noticed for the first time outside the immediate area . |
| 23 | The 20th session of the World Economic Forum , a meeting of senior economists from some 60 industrialized countries , was held in Davos , Switzerland , on Feb. 1-6 , when the discussion was attended for the first time by representatives from Eastern Europe . |
| 24 | The annual meeting was attended for the first time by a Soviet delegation led by Viktor Gerashchenko in anticipation of full Soviet membership of the Fund and the Bank . |
| 25 | It was attended for the first time by observers from China and France , neither of which was a signatory of the treaty . |
| 26 | The Wimbledon defender will also request a cut in a six-month playing ban , suspended for three years , which was imposed at the same time . |
| 27 | After the attempt various constitutional clauses were suspended and press and television censorship was imposed for the first time in over 30 years to exclude media coverage of coup leader Chávez Frías . |
| 28 | The sanction of cold-shouldering was imposed for the first time in relation to Dundee Football Club ( see Panel Statement 1992/9 ) after hearings before the full Panel and the Appeal Committee . |
| 29 | With the academic year 1992/93 seeing the first full year of modularised courses at Napier , it was seen as an appropriate time to examine undergraduate , postgraduate , and HND courses in relation to the inclusion of enterprise/ transferable skills in course descriptors . |
| 30 | More important , in 1762 recruitment was made for the first time a direct concern of the government , taking it out of the hands of the regimental officers who had hitherto controlled it . |