Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [num ord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | you were right the first time . |
| 2 | ‘ No … you were right the first time : what happened between us was a dreadful mistake … unplanned . |
| 3 | No , you were right the first time boy ! |
| 4 | Last night there were a lot of people at the gig who were here the first time around and they can relate to what we 're doing . |
| 5 | He was dead the last time I saw him . ’ |
| 6 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 7 | This was their sixth successive League victory , and though it was only the first time they have scored three goals in a game this season , everyone at Highbury knows it could have been seven . |
| 8 | In fact , when he stunned Jim courier and double Wimbledon champion Stefan Edberg that week it was only the seventh time in over four years that feat had been achieved . |
| 9 | It was only the second time she had taken part and this race , taking less than ten minutes , had been a particularly fast one , but as she said , it was a family tradition to take part in it and she had really enjoyed it . |
| 10 | It was only the second time this season we 've been comprehensively beaten . |
| 11 | It was only the second time since they had been married that she had rebuffed him . |
| 12 | It was only the second time they had worked together . |
| 13 | It was only the second time Meg had seen Arthur really angry . |
| 14 | It was only the fourth time that one horse had completed a clear round . |
| 15 | This was only the fourth time that this legislation had been invoked . |
| 16 | This was only the fourth time on which the UN had imposed sanctions , the previous occasions being sanctions against Rhodesia , South Africa and Iraq . |
| 17 | It did not matter that it was only the fourth time they had met ; she knew this moment was exceptional in her life and that , while their physical passion might be impulsive and unplanned , it was inescapable . |
| 18 | It was only the third time Huntworth has got round in his last 13 races under Rules , but those three completions have brought three wins . |
| 19 | That was only the third time it had happened in New Zealand . |
| 20 | Ian Readman , honorary secretary of the Redcar Station , said he believed it was only the third time a crew at the station had received a medal in the 190 years since the Zetland was first launched from Redcar . |
| 21 | It was possibly the first time the BBC had had to take other equipment out of service because someone ( Voigt ) complained of its bad performance , which had shown up on this speaker . |
| 22 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 23 | Then I should think you came up here , and that was probably the first time you realised what had happened . |
| 24 | I think that erm the actual position er assured was that industry gave us a quotation in erm April nineteen ninety two which actually was somewhat higher than we 'd anticipated , but I 'm not sure that industry reyu viewed it as an increase because it was probably the first time they had formally quoted a price . |
| 25 | Not that I complained because I was having a great time with it , but I noticed that there were a few changes and when I went back to England from Mustique , that was probably the last time MainMan existed . |
| 26 | Using a new set of genuine Thomas Leavy documents based on his legal name change — the last thing he supposed the Federal authorities would be on the lookout for — Coleman then slipped back into the States , via Canada , for what he felt in his bones was probably the last time he would see his father and his country . |
| 27 | It was also the first time he had driven with navigator John Anthony , a retired fire officer from South Nutfield . |
| 28 | It was also the first time that her 21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi , Allen 's new lover , was not at the traditional family meal . |
| 29 | ‘ It was also the first time that steam , which is the lifeblood of THORP was introduced into the highly active area . ’ |
| 30 | It marked the dedication of a new city church … but it was also the first time a Roman Catholic cardinal had preached before the Monarch since the time of Henry The Eighth . |