Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For some time I could not speak . |
| 3 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This was because at that time I could not find a Salome . |
| 6 | At that time I could only eat alone . |
| 7 | At that time you could you could trust people . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yeah At one time we could n't get Jessy to talk , he 'd got a little girl with er and |
| 10 | At one time they could turn to the Government 's agricultural advisory service , but now this charges for its help and is too expensive to consult in many cases . |
| 11 | At one time I could easily have become a fundamentalist advocate of natural childbirth ( Reaching for certainty NI 210 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At one time you could have travelled up the Aspe valley by railway , and entered Spain through a tunnel five miles long under the final ridge . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | at one time you could of done , but now , you 've got to take the guards off |
| 16 | The desert was an unforgiving place , but their training had equipped them to cope , when at any time they could have taken the easy way out and walked down to the coast road to surrender . |
| 17 | The moral is clear : when gustiness is getting near to the limit for safe flying , assume that at any time it could suddenly increase . |
| 18 | At any time it could turn into a strident chorus , a demand for humanity . |
| 19 | But at any time she could be called out to back up the site 's regular fire crew . |
| 20 | ‘ Unfortunately , by that time they could be HIV positive . |
| 21 | By that time he could have arranged to be called away . |
| 22 | A.H.Q. expected to detect these transports east of Malta at extreme range and by that time I could spare some Marylands while still meeting the P.R . |
| 23 | By this time he could smell the hydraulic fluid . |
| 24 | By this time she could already have borne him their two sons , Swegen and Harold . |