Example sentences of "was the [num ord] 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 | 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 in 24 hours that they had acted to stop a party in the county . |
| 4 | It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was the second time they had broken up and been reconciled . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That was the second time he had been saved from drowning . |
| 12 | It was the second time I had failed to finish an AAA Championship and I vowed to do better . |
| 13 | It was the second time that Edinburgh had staged the Commonwealth Games . |
| 14 | This was the second time they had done the walk , and they found it tougher than in previous years . |
| 15 | It was the second time that Kate had had dinner at his house , and he was finding that he liked her being around . |
| 16 | It was the second time he had heard the term . |
| 17 | It was the second time in their acquaintanceship that she had put her hand on his thigh . |
| 18 | It was the second time the teacher-turned-comic had been hit by car vandals . |
| 19 | She knew with total certainty that her imagination had n't been playing tricks , and that it was the second time in only a few minutes that she 'd heard those precise words . |
| 20 | It was the second time in eight months that Barre had changed the government , and no official reasons were given for the changes , but Barre called on the new Cabinet , sworn in on Sept. 5 , to solve the current civil war and economic crisis . |
| 21 | This was the second time that the centre-left coalition government of President Patricio Aylwin Azócar had successfully introduced changes to the authoritarian 1980 Constitution inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship [ for January amendment see p. 37958 ] . |
| 22 | That was the second time this afternoon he had mentioned Seville and that was a bit of a coincidence . |
| 23 | For the 87 year old , it was the second time thieves have raided her home . |
| 24 | It was the second time they 'd searched for her , following sightings in North Oxford . |
| 25 | It was the second time there 'd been a breakout at the court in the space of a week . |
| 26 | It was the second time this season Dettori and Michael Roberts have split a decision after Shujan and Haddaaj proved inseparable at Sandown in July . |
| 27 | It was the second time in a fortnight the Glens had gone down to Portadown , but Saturday 's was a much brighter performance than the 3– |
| 28 | It was the second time witnesses had failed to turn up for Tapping 's trial . |
| 29 | It was the second time he had ignored the ban — he competed in a road race in Cardiff last month . |
| 30 | ‘ That was the forty-seventh time we 'd done those few lines . ’ |