Example sentences of "was the [adj] time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the fifth time I had him on the floor , so the referee was right to stop it ’ . |
| 2 | It was the twentieth time he had confessed such ignorance , but for the twentieth time it did not satisfy Jane Sharpe who sat naked to the waist at the room 's small dressing-table . |
| 3 | It was the second time they had broken up and been reconciled . |
| 4 | This was the second time they had done the walk , and they found it tougher than in previous years . |
| 5 | It was the second time they 'd searched for her , following sightings in North Oxford . |
| 6 | It was the second time I had failed to finish an AAA Championship and I vowed to do better . |
| 7 | That was the second time he had been saved from drowning . |
| 8 | It was the second time he had heard the term . |
| 9 | It was the second time he had ignored the ban — he competed in a road race in Cardiff last month . |
| 10 | ‘ That was the forty-seventh time we 'd done those few lines . ’ |
| 11 | After drinking with a friend , Mr. Clarkson , in 1803 , he declares it was the best time he had had since he came into Westmorland . |
| 12 | ‘ That was the only time we kept something from her and even then it was only for a short time , ’ says Mike . |
| 13 | ‘ That was the only time I had contact with him . |
| 14 | That was the only time I had known real fear . |
| 15 | Although there have been many marvellous performances that have meant a great deal to me , the most important to me , without doubt , was the only time I heard my first teacher sing . |
| 16 | This was the only time I heard anyone get the better of Wellington . |
| 17 | That was the only time I 'd seen a stick being used . |
| 18 | It was the only time I saw Anderson close to tears . |
| 19 | That was the only time I saw her . ’ |
| 20 | It was the only time I saw Cantona play for Leeds live . |
| 21 | It was the only time I felt slightly frightened and that was mainly because I 'd heard that a posterior labour could last a long time — even 24 hours . |
| 22 | ‘ Except when we were making love — that was the only time you seemed to let me anywhere near you . ’ |
| 23 | It was the only time she had seen her old friend in tears . |
| 24 | ( That was the only time she did n't use |
| 25 | This was the only time she allowed herself away from the business of the shop or the house above it . |
| 26 | One thing did upset him , and that was innovation ; if the Vicar discovered anything new , on either the theological or the social horizon , he grew hot it was the only time he did get hot . |
| 27 | It was the only time he defeated Linford all year . |
| 28 | This was the first time we had returned to Eggleston Burn since a summer visit in search of the Grass of Parnassus and butterwort that grow in its boggy flushes . |
| 29 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 30 | Visits supervisor Jenny Wallace said of the group : ‘ This was the first time we had welcomed a party from the Salvation Army . |