Example sentences of "could n't [vb infin] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory-album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home . |
| 2 | He could n't waste time in useless persuasion . |
| 3 | ‘ As Prime Minister , I could n't waste time having any internal arguments . |
| 4 | Lucy could n't find time to come over for an evening ; the globally significant exhibition was floating on some remote iceberg ; Jeremy had an agent , an opening ; Lucy 's sister was ill and needed her ( Jay recalled Lucy 's exasperated indifference to her sister ) ; the painters were coming . |
| 5 | Significantly , the journalists who could n't find time to come , were those Fleet Street hacks with famous names who write most noisily on the pros and cons of optic fibre for the cabling of Britain . |
| 6 | But not too concerned that he could n't find time to drop into Simon Butcher 's to have his picture taken . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm mad because I had the money for them but I just could n't get time to shop with the hours we 've been working . ’ |