Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [pers pn] can " 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 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
| 3 | Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant . |
| 4 | With a little bit of extra time you can |
| 5 | From this time we can probably date the development of Banbury Lane as a road rather than a wide corridor . |
| 6 | If you can get your book out in reasonable time I can see it being a real winner , and position-wise it wo n't do you any harm , that 's for sure . |
| 7 | At that time we can respond by the greatest amount and at the greatest speed and we perceive it as being least difficult . |
| 8 | They were good value , because they were in a style that he could wear anywhere and they were strong enough for all his walking and kept his feet from being bruised on the city pavements , for when you walk as much and as far as Boy did at that time you can hurt your feet badly . |
| 9 | At half time you can change your tactics and bring on a substitute . |
| 10 | At this time they can be observed rummaging around in search of food . |
| 11 | Most hotels maintain records of the occupancy of the room so that at any time they can refer to it and see when and by whom the room was occupied . |
| 12 | At any time you can take too much or too little of something and die . |
| 13 | At any time you can draw one card from below any pile , that is to say it does n't have to be on top of the pile . |
| 14 | In another case around this time we can see how different newspapers use familiar but different tags to identify a particular ‘ sex beast ’ . |
| 15 | But the English reader has a label ready to tie on to Theophile Gautier ; and by this time we can guess what is written on it — ‘ arid aestheticism ’ . |