Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She breathes her lament into the earth filling her mouth , saying over and over , for the habit of power has made her take the past on her shoulders , ‘ If I could return to that time , I would no longer change men into beasts as I did , and then find myself unable to change them back into men . ’ |
| 2 | Then I think I read some of my favourite English poems — Hardy , Hopkins , Housman , Blake , Yeats , Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , and I think one each by Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn , the only contemporaries I could stand at that time . |
| 3 | At the moment I 'm not getting any results , and I could go at any time . |
| 4 | Er , it was the best word that I felt I could use at this time , it may be that a , if a debate ensues from this , or from er , other er , writings about , of myself and other people over this next few months , that a term will emerge that people feel happy with , but certainly we are talking about community partnership . |
| 5 | Searching through her mind the only emotions she could recreate from that time were a dizzying pleasure that someone as sophisticated , cosmopolitan , successful and confident as Doctor Anthony Gillingham should appear to want anyone as dull and provincial as she had been and a kind of a triumph that she could present Comfort with Anthony 's declaration of love . |
| 6 | Perhaps I could suggest her getting someone in to look after him and she could come for half time . |
| 7 | You could check at this time that there is actually a male present , as two females sometimes act out the spawning procedure , producing infertile eggs ; I have not seen this where males were available , so do not be too hasty to split up a pair , especially if you are not yet confident about sexing your Angels . |
| 8 | No doubt you could do with some time to reflect on things . ’ |
| 9 | They could rip at any time . |
| 10 | Last night , Platt said : ‘ It could go at any time , walking across the training ground or even sitting down to lunch . |
| 11 | He thought he had probably broken it , but there was little he could do at this time of night . |