Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , and to add to the injustices he had already suffered , Meehan was obliged to wait five years , which was the time it took Lord Hunter to complete and publish his report . |
| 2 | It had occurred to Cecilia as soon as the words were out of her mouth that five minutes to twelve , which was the time when she had seen Jasper , was rather early for a lunch hour to begin . |
| 3 | Which was the time of Recovery . |
| 4 | Then there was the time Vic and company decided to detonate a smorgasbord of Spam and boiled sweets . |
| 5 | There was the time we were getting off a crowded coach on a day trip to Brighton and he pushed me back into my seat . |
| 6 | Then there was the time Joe Hulme asked if he could stay for the weekend in his native Lancashire after an away match at Bolton . |
| 7 | There was the time , too , when he kept a Wellington side very much under wraps before a Ranfurly Shield challenge against Auckland , and then took the hugh gamble of removing his best five-eighths , Steve Pokere , from fly-half to centre , and bringing in a new youngster — a gamble which failed quite spectacularly . |
| 8 | Although there was the time when he was round about that age and had developed meningitis . |
| 9 | There was the time we gave out some information about a stolen motor coach . |
| 10 | Then there was the time when he was arrested for driving a loaned car which the police insisted had been reported stolen . |
| 11 | " There was the time I saw the bear , " said Marcus unguardedly , remembering the bear . |
| 12 | There was the time I took some of my work round for him to look at . |
| 13 | There was the time , too , when her refusal to recognize any point in the purchase of a most promising yearling had both distressed and exasperated him . |
| 14 | ‘ There was the time I turned up at the Arts Lab ( first and last time ) to see the Dylan film and could n't afford it . |
| 15 | There was the time he kicked the ball in the house and smashed his mum 's good plates , but apart from that he was a decent youngster . |
| 16 | There was the time , for instance , when they had a love scene in Carry On Up The Khyber in 1968 . |
| 17 | It was the time of the Miners Strike ; just afterwards . |
| 18 | It was the time of the Baedeker raids , when German bombers struck cathedral towns , and some of the guests who stayed in York the night before had sleepless hours . |
| 19 | It was the time of their lives when they found it hardest to make ends meet . |
| 20 | It was the time of progressive rock . |
| 21 | Cockney Rebel had it a bit , and it was the time of the film Cabaret , The Rocky Horror Show and Biba 's nightclub on the roof of what used to be Derry and Toms Every other phrase in the newspapers seemed to be ‘ Iounge lizard ’ . |
| 22 | Adaptation to Roman society and culture ; doctrinal self-definition , and organizational solidification : the century and a half after Constantine 's conversion was all this ; but more than anything else , it was the time in which Christians learnt to live in the new conditions of their existence . |
| 23 | It was the time for the dissemination and transcription of stories and songs by means of travelling storytellers and poets ; many of these , like Chrétien de Troyes and certain trouvères and troubadours received royal patronage . |
| 24 | Rhetorically , it was the time of the great horticultural images of education , derived perhaps first from Rousseau and reinforced by Froebel , for whom the child was the tender plant growing in the garden , the kindergarten . |
| 25 | The vital question facing the union was precisely the vital question facing Britain at that time ; it was the time to make a choice . |
| 26 | It was the time of my own personal greatness , before any human hurt had got in the way . |
| 27 | It was the time of suffragettes and Mr Norman McCorquodale was reported as saying that a spray of water through the hose on them would be a good thing . |
| 28 | It was the time when he had to choose between , on the one hand , learning to limit the purely sensual pleasures offered him by his physical evolution , and on the other hand , accepting that failure to do so would either destroy or delay the enjoyment of the much broader and deeper pleasures which were becoming available to him by virtue of the developing emotions within him . |
| 29 | It was the time when many stars started to come out of the political closet and openly voiced their support for one candidate or another . |
| 30 | It was the time of day when the tables were mostly occupied by kids , all dressed to the nines , playing more with the Steve Davis ‘ cool ’ than the St£e Davis ‘ skill ’ . |