Example sentences of "was the [num ord] time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian , a twenty-year-old draughtsman , had seen it all before , but it was the first time for Jane , his nineteen-year-old wife , whose daytime job is as a telephonist . |
| 2 | They ordered , sipped drinks , and Therese was conscious that it was the first time for years she had eaten a meal alone with a man . |
| 3 | It was the first time in Israel 's 41-year history that a government had been brought down on a vote of confidence . |
| 4 | A man has made medical history by having four organ transplants.In two operations he was given a new heart , two lungs and a kidney.It was the first time in Europe so many organs had been replaced successfully.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 5 | It was the first time in ages he 'd demonstrated any kind of protectiveness towards her and she could n't help warming to that . |
| 6 | This was the first time in history that a trade union banner had been borne aloft in a great military and naval display . |
| 7 | A rifleman hit two men crouching near the Colonel , who later wrote that ‘ this was the first time in warfare that I truly felt fear . |
| 8 | It was the first time in years that I had blown my top in such a way , and I vowed that it would never happen again , that I would save all my aggression for the track . |
| 9 | The popular endorsement of Labour in 1966 was the last time to date that the party in government has been re-elected . |