Example sentences of "at [adj] time [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was because at that time I could not find a Salome . |
| 2 | At that time I could only eat alone . |
| 3 | At that time you could you could trust people . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yeah At one time we could n't get Jessy to talk , he 'd got a little girl with er and |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At one time I could easily have become a fundamentalist advocate of natural childbirth ( Reaching for certainty NI 210 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | at one time you could of done , but now , you 've got to take the guards off |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The moral is clear : when gustiness is getting near to the limit for safe flying , assume that at any time it could suddenly increase . |
| 14 | At any time it could turn into a strident chorus , a demand for humanity . |
| 15 | But at any time she could be called out to back up the site 's regular fire crew . |