Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [pers pn] could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some time I could not speak . |
| 2 | If , instead of ‘ piecework ’ , the men contracted to get the harvest in by the end of a month , it meant that should they finish before that time they could then go to other jobs on the farm , drawing their usual wage whilst doing so . |
| 3 | This was because at that time I could not find a Salome . |
| 4 | At that time I could only eat alone . |
| 5 | Yeah At one time we could n't get Jessy to talk , he 'd got a little girl with er and |
| 6 | At one time I could easily have become a fundamentalist advocate of natural childbirth ( Reaching for certainty NI 210 ) . |
| 7 | The same reasoning , I suspect , saw to it that at one time you could n't get olives , only peanut and crisps , in smart bars in Spain , because olives were what peasants ate . |
| 8 | I know things have altered recently , but certainly at one time you could n't speak to God yourself and confess your sins direct to Him . |
| 9 | The moral is clear : when gustiness is getting near to the limit for safe flying , assume that at any time it could suddenly increase . |
| 10 | By this time she could already have borne him their two sons , Swegen and Harold . |