Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [pers pn] [modal v] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
| 2 | For some time I could not speak . |
| 3 | With the coming of civilisation and the beginning of this , the third of the Three Periods into which the reader is reminded the explanation of the Created God is divided , man was on the threshold of the era of his greatest testing , even though at that time he may not have been aware of it . |
| 4 | This was because at that time I could not find a Salome . |
| 5 | By this time he would not have been surprised if she had taken up the lecture and returned him a brief history of the next four centuries . |