Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Customs officers say it 's the first time European green law has been used in Britain this way . |
| 2 | Customs men say it 's the first time they 've used Cites to seize timber |
| 3 | What does it mean when it says it is the last time . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've said it 's the wrong time of the year for that . |
| 5 | Yeah he 's a very you know it 's funny I know it 's the worst time to do a phone in actually because people are doing other oh I 've got me foot caught in the whatsit but erm I thought I thought we 'd get loads of people on saying I 'd been very rude saying that this was er er er nation of animal haters and abusers . |
| 6 | Actuality of warden describing the snake followed by interview where she sez it 's the first time she'stouched a grass snake and slow worms . |
| 7 | I mean I suppose it is the first time , it 's the only film of its type , you , you know what I 'm getting at , it 's exactly the same thing we , we tried very hard to avoid in the access guide , actually being able to say what instead of just saying you know |
| 8 | I guess it was the first time really in my life I 'd been totally left on my own . |
| 9 | It was the first time we 'd had proper monitors on stage — which meant it was the first time John heard his own voice . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She replaced the receiver , standing unmoving , staring across the room towards the Knudsen with hungry eyes , knowing it was the last time she would ever see it . |
| 12 | I , I bet , I bet i I bet it 's the first time in your life you felt shi , yes come on ! |
| 13 | What time do you think it 's the best time today ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Er of course it 's , it 's , it 's I think it 's more longwinded than er I mean it 's the first time you 've fully got into it , and it 's more longwinded than the fifteen minutes allows you erm but I , I thought you were doing quite well to be honest . |
| 16 | Duncan realized it was the first time Myeloski had mentioned Oldenburg 's Russian origins . |
| 17 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
| 18 | After drinking with a friend , Mr. Clarkson , in 1803 , he declares it was the best time he had had since he came into Westmorland . |
| 19 | I think it 's the first time she 'd actually seen Oliver look clean . |
| 20 | I think it is the first time he actually worked hard . |
| 21 | I think it was the first time you really spoke to me . |
| 22 | Or if somebody has a premiere it means it 's the first time that they do something . |
| 23 | And she has n't got two , that means it 's the first time I 've seen those three lights on . |
| 24 | Now if your person were to say come round , said it 's the first time they 've had a fit you get , call an ambulance , it may be epilepsy but it could be anything else , it could erm be , be the start of er something else in the brain because that 's all an epileptic fit is , it 's an electrical impulse , nobody actually knows why or when or how it 's caused , but it happens erm , but above all be very , very nice to your casualties , they 'll want to get up and they 'll run away , they want to get out , especially if it 's outside , because they 're embarrassed by it . |
| 25 | A spokeswoman for the band , whose hits include Love Cats and The Walk , said it is the first time The Cure will have played at such an intimate venue for almost ten years . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | Announcing the award of £162,150 , Mr Justice Otton said it was the first time such an action had been brought . |
| 28 | He said it was the first time he 'd done so but he was damned if he was going to be wheeled into a restaurant like a blasted mental patient out with his nurse . ’ |
| 29 | Philip Head , Chief Executive of the WDA , said it was the first time the agency had been asked to source Welsh suppliers for a company based in Germany and resulted directly from the WDA campaign to build business links with the motor regions of Europe . |
| 30 | , business director of Courtaulds Aerospace in Germany , said it was the first time in the world that a chromate-free coating had been given the go-ahead for civil aircraft manufacture . |