Example sentences of "[adj] time [pron] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 2 | It was almost a relief to discover that even in the short time she had been on board ship she was already beginning to acquire a golden tan . |
| 3 | In the short time she had been in the City , she had been propositioned by a well-dressed lush , witnessed a gangland execution and been pursued through a deserted subway station by a bulky killer . |
| 4 | This was the first time I had been to the house and it seemed enormous . |
| 5 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 6 | It was difficult — you know , first time I 'd been in charge . |
| 7 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |
| 8 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 9 | It was the first time she had been into the city since that awful night of the cockfight back in February . |
| 10 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Athelstan stood in the hallway looking carefully around for this was the first time he had been to Cranston 's house and met his wife . |
| 13 | ‘ The — er — Palmer & Pearson job , ’ she interrupted , only then realising that they had barely touched on work the whole time she 'd been with him . |
| 14 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 15 | Only several weeks later , as she lay stifling in her cabin on a filthy steamer from Trebizond , did she reflect that the Kurd , in the whole time he had been with them , had executed Miss Fergusson 's commands with punctiliousness and honour ; further , that she had no means of knowing what had passed between the two of them that last night in the cave . |
| 16 | The next time I noticed was at the terminus |
| 17 | The last time they met was in the old second division at the county ground . |
| 18 | The storm was just triggering memories of the last time they had been in a storm together . |
| 19 | Last time we met was at the Training Centre at Achnacarry . |
| 20 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 21 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 22 | Patrick says the last time he ran was in Gloucester was in driving wind and rain |
| 23 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
| 24 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
| 25 | The last time he had been in Athens , when the group that called themselves ‘ November 17th ’ had hit the Procter & Gamble offices with an anti-tank rocket , he had not been admitted to the presence of this big man . |
| 26 | It was unfair , because last time he had been in the thick of the fighting when the message came , and Tuathal had fought to be beside him . |
| 27 | Last time it had been for a length of dress material . |
| 28 | The last time she had been to the office she had been confined in a poky little interview room near the editor 's office , but she hoped to avoid that fate this time . |
| 29 | She did n't remember anything like this the last time she 'd been on Earth . |
| 30 | Nothing she 'd care to trust too far , but it made the atmosphere a lot easier than the last time she 'd been in here with the door closed . |