Example sentences of "[pron] can [vb infin] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You say we have no liberties , ’ Hope replied to a rather over-eloquent statement of George 's , ‘ but I can think of no time when we have had a greater chance to take what freedom we want . |
| 2 | There followed as fierce and nasty a little campaign as I can remember in the time I spent with the health service . |
| 3 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 4 | ‘ I like a woman who can keep to the time I give her , ’ Roman said as she came into their sitting-room . |
| 5 | You can stay for the time being . |
| 6 | Make do with what you ca , what you can afford at the time . |
| 7 | I do n't think you can have in the time . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm the kind you can trample for a time . |
| 9 | In reality , a business — like everything else — is worth no more than the best offer you can obtain at the time of a sale . |
| 10 | I was majorly unpleased as you can imagine at the time but I think what it does show is that the Indians have got a terrific sense of humour . |
| 11 | Turn back your currents in their course , the stiff breeze and the gentle wind , pull back the tide and send the sun , the moon , and the stars spinning in the churn of the heavens — so that we can return to the time before this time . |
| 12 | We can leave for the time being , however , the implications of his activist approach to Truth in order to look again at his concept of Truth as hitherto elucidated . |
| 13 | If we sort of reverse things in our minds eye , and look backwards into the past history of the universe , we can come to a time where apparently all the material in the universe would have been on top of itself , that it would all have been squeezed into a point , and this moment sometimes people call the big bang , or the initial singularity . |
| 14 | In the words of Stuart Eizenstat , Jimmy Carter 's domestic policy chief , ‘ One can trace from the time of the New Deal through the early and mid-parts of the Nixon administration , a clear , gradual , perceptible increase in presidential power relative to the legislative branch . |