Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] time [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 2 | The motorbike slowed so that for the first time they could see the outlines of the rider , a derelict farmhouse appeared in its headlight beam and the car behind them started flashing its lights . |
| 3 | He began to sleep through the night , and became much less active — for the first time he could sit down and watch a television programme through to the end . |
| 4 | For the first time she could smell the dankness and the odour of rotting seaweed . |
| 5 | For the first time she could sense what it must be like to possess the surgeon 's power almost of life and death , the satisfaction of knowing your actions had helped to save a life or bring a new one into the world , and she had been a part , albeit a small one , of the drama . |
| 6 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 7 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 8 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 9 | They would be more effective and useful ; and at the same time they could be employed to reflect a new approach to the balance of education for which I have argued . |
| 10 | At the same time they could become excited about house matches or school matches and take part in such events with earnest aggressiveness . |
| 11 | In fact , the work we have done together has always been very harmonious — although I imagine if we were in a sit-com at the same time we could get a bit waspish — ‘ She 's got more lines than me … but it 's never happened so far . |
| 12 | There had already been a kerfuffle over the pornographic ones ; they could n't be included in the facsimile edition and yet at the same time it could hardly be called a complete edition if they were n't there . |
| 13 | Local residents again pointed out that so far all the dust that had blown had come from one three-acre section of the lake : ‘ The worry is that if it 's not attended to and if the entire 150 acres rise up and start blowing at the same time it could be a national disaster . |
| 14 | And at the same time she could sell the emeralds , a task she had been dreading . |
| 15 | She suspected that some aspects of rural life would be lost for ever but at the same time she could see that much was gained . |
| 16 | At the same time she could n't help but wonder about the fact that in the space of twelve months he had been involved in three relationships , Anna Wallace , Amanda Knatchbull and herself , any one of which could have ended in marriage . |
| 17 | At the same time she could feel her neck muscles being strained . |
| 18 | At the same time she could n't help feeling surprised by the discovery that all was not as Aunt Bertha had surmised . |
| 19 | At the same time he could be penetratingly serious ; but , above all , he was poignantly lovable . |
| 20 | He was very sorry , but at the same time he could not help feeling excited by the prospect of owning a new jacket . |
| 21 | But at the same time he could look like a fool , crooning ‘ Proud Mary ’ along with Snow White on Oscar night ; he thought he was just being a trouper . |
| 22 | At the same time he could be gentle with students ; a thoughtless question would be sympathetically answered . |
| 23 | Beads of blood appeared along the cuts , which alarmed me , though at the same time I could see that the wounds were superficial . |
| 24 | At the same time I could hear someone tapping frantically on the glass door of the kiosk , someone far too anxious to clamber in with me . |
| 25 | At the same time I could see Terry standing close by , on firm ground . |
| 26 | And at the same time I could n't help seeing Barber was a bit of a sham . |