Example sentences of "[adj] time [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can also , if I erm come across the same problem a few times I could hopefully work on that and then probably eradicate altogether . |
| 2 | That slow laugh came again , but this time I could identify for sure the menace and the mockery in it . |
| 3 | This time I could not have cared . |
| 4 | I waved frantically , but this time I could actually sense my body temperature falling rapidly with the physical exertion . |
| 5 | Denis Norden was as delightful and urbane a guest as Don Black had been , but this time I could actually hear and respond to what he was saying . |
| 6 | Remember , at this time you could buy a really good Martin flat-top for around forty dollars , but the cheapest Tri-Plate — the plain , unengraved Style 1 — would cost you eighty-five dollars . |
| 7 | But the negotiators , led by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan 's Jalal Talabani and including the nephew of Masoud Barzani , the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party , claimed that this time it could all be different . |
| 8 | There was a luxurious pleasure in being able to share a secret with one of the very few people he could call a friend , but this time he could resist . |
| 9 | By this time he could smell the hydraulic fluid . |
| 10 | At least this time he could justifiably claim to be doing so in a higher cause than that of his own political survival . |
| 11 | He found peace in the fact that this time he could help , and decided to watch over her until she recovered . |
| 12 | Herbert tried to look hopeful about his future , but this time he could n't even manage his usual cheerful smile . |
| 13 | This time he could almost hear a patient sigh coming down the telephone . |
| 14 | This time he could n't help himself and he laughed outright , but he put his arm around her as he did so . |
| 15 | It was in 1985 that he won this championship at Dornoch when nobody expected him to , but this time he could start favourite over what he calls ‘ my own private Shangri La ’ . |
| 16 | This time he could not believe the white flag . |
| 17 | This time he could afford to make no mistake ; his former pupil , the Crown Prince , was there at his elbow , watching every move . |
| 18 | This time she could n't stand by and meekly witness cruelty . |
| 19 | This time she could drink with scarcely a tremor . |
| 20 | The thought crept into the warmth and she trembled , afraid that this time she could not face rejection . |
| 21 | By this time she could already have borne him their two sons , Swegen and Harold . |
| 22 | Then Shiona had preferred to deny the evidence of her eyes , but this time she could no longer do so . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | They waved once and I waved back , and for some time I could see their bright jackets in the dappled shade of the afternoon sun . |
| 25 | For some time I could not speak . |
| 26 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 27 | And after raising the board and finding six washleather bags of sovereigns she had really believed him , and for only the second time she could remember in her life , she had cried . |
| 28 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 29 | Oh it 's so funny , cos the second time he could n't , he came back and I think I was upstairs , and she did n't shut the door and I said all four , cos I 've got to pick her up at five , he said oh , anyway he went back , after dinner he 'd gone back and I said told you about it 's five o'clock , he said are you on me . |
| 30 | but now they 're all set up and I 'm left alone and the children , three of them , have n't got time to look after me to give me what I , what I need and especially one in the truth , that one is less getting in touch with me than the ones that told me the truth , boys ring me , twice , three times a week , Julia rings every , every night , but Ted rings twice or three times a week , three times I could go , the one |