Example sentences of "was the [adj] time " 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 | Whitsuntide was the traditional time for wearing new clothes and the little girls were all smart in their prettiest dresses , mostly white , with ribbons and flowers in their hair . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I could n't work in those circumstances , so I decided this was the right time if I really wanted to do something with my solo career , just break loose completely . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd always wanted to work with Mutt Lange ; I 've actually tried to work with Mutt since 1984 , but he was always busy on a project , but he wanted to do it and it was the right time for both of us . |
| 6 | He repeated , together with the Chairman of the Social Work Committee , Mrs Mairhi Trickett , that seven o'clock in the morning was the right time to take the children , as it was a time when families would all be together . |
| 7 | ‘ It was the right time to get married . |
| 8 | And although 75 per cent of them thought 16 was the right time to start having sex , girls admitted they still made the mistake , often with drastic consequences , of saying Yes when they really meant No . |
| 9 | In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go . |
| 10 | ‘ That was the right time . |
| 11 | In the Western calendar a new decade had just begun — it was the right time for a new beginning ! |
| 12 | Oh the teachers were very good , they usually greeted you with a big plum or something , if it was the right time of the year , which it usually was . |
| 13 | Perhaps now was the right time to ask Rohmer just what the hell he really was , just what the hell was really going on … ? |
| 14 | It was the right time as she came around to the front of the house . |
| 15 | He was pleased that this was the right time . |
| 16 | Catherine agreed that now was the right time to go there . |
| 17 | He seemed to have decided that now was the right time to clean the Great Hall floor and was poking the mop head in among the boys ’ legs , muttering to himself . |
| 18 | A week ago , sterling joined the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ; it lifted the gloom for the Tory Party Conference in Bournemouth , and this afternoon , the Chancellor , John Major , came to explain why now was the right time for Britain to join . |
| 19 | It was the second time in 24 hours that they had acted to stop a party in the county . |
| 20 | It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues . |
| 21 | ‘ Sometimes we can argue , but on this occasion we 'll have to throw ourselves on the mercy of the court because once again , and this was the second time running , simple , basic errors cost us the game . ’ |
| 22 | It was the second time Vonetta and I had met ; both times she struck me as an extremely self-possessed young woman with a lot of presence . |
| 23 | It was the second time they had broken up and been reconciled . |
| 24 | It was the second time that Oldfield , a bachelor and former public schoolboy from Crosby Road , Birkdale , Southport , had come under suspicion for sexually abusing children in his care . |
| 25 | It was the second time this season that the two Gwent sides had finished all-square , and that was the only sign of any lingering bitterness from the earlier match . |
| 26 | In 1941 , after a brief and inauspicious period of Vichy French rule , Lebanon was again occupied by Allied armies ; it was the second time in 24 years that British troops had crossed the southern frontier from Palestine . |
| 27 | That was the second time he had been saved from drowning . |
| 28 | It was the second time I had failed to finish an AAA Championship and I vowed to do better . |
| 29 | It was the second time that Edinburgh had staged the Commonwealth Games . |
| 30 | This was the second time they had done the walk , and they found it tougher than in previous years . |