Example sentences of "[was/were] the [adj] time he " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That was the second time he had been saved from drowning . |
| 3 | It was the second time he had heard the term . |
| 4 | It was the second time he had ignored the ban — he competed in a road race in Cardiff last month . |
| 5 | After drinking with a friend , Mr. Clarkson , in 1803 , he declares it was the best time he had had since he came into Westmorland . |
| 6 | It was the only time he defeated Linford all year . |
| 7 | Surely Ashenden would have gone up to the Pay-Out desk immediately , if he 'd been there especially since that was the only time he was going to be in the betting-shop . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 10 | Mr Deng has repeatedly promised to retire in recent years , but yesterday was the first time he had reissued the pledge since the Tiananmen Square massacre and a shake-up of the party leadership . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This was the first time he had ever talked about himself , so she knew it must be very important and felt flattered that he was confiding in her . |
| 13 | It was the first time he 'd bothered to read through them and he found much useful material for his hobby of persecuting Gina . |
| 14 | In years to come Karelius was often to reflect that this was the first time he had heard mention of the man whose destiny was to be so closely entwined with his own . |
| 15 | It was the first time he had spoken . |
| 16 | This morning was the first time he was to be given a serious piece of work before running later in the week . |
| 17 | But this was the first time he 'd offered to share any of his inner self . |
| 18 | It was the first time he 'd ever slept with a woman and it felt like burglary . |
| 19 | It was the first time he 'd realised that a woman 's blood had the power to excite him . |
| 20 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 21 | It was the first time he had used Dalgliesh 's Christian name . |
| 22 | ‘ Everyone seemed to think Benjamin was a virgin , but I never thought of him as that , but that it was the first time he was making love to a woman who was old enough to be his mother , and who was his mother 's friend . ’ |
| 23 | It was the first time he had seen Zach 's ‘ Joseph ’ jersey . |
| 24 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |
| 25 | He told me that the match on Sunday was the first time he had been properly man marked since playing in Italy . |
| 26 | This was the first time he had exercised his authority and it had worked . |
| 27 | It was the first time he had acknowledged sensational claims about his wife , Camilla , and Prince Charles . |
| 28 | It was the first time he 'd been really alone since the days when he 'd lived in a hole and had to go out hunting by himself because there was no one else . |
| 29 | It was the first time he had heard his name pronounced correctly since coming into the camp . |
| 30 | The effect of such correction can , in some instances , be dramatic , as in the case of a child who , after receiving his first pair of spectacles , spent several evenings looking at the stars as it was the first time he had ever been able to see them . |