Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] later [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 2 | Twelve months later they could cover only 18 per cent . |
| 3 | When he came to about twenty minutes later he could n't get out . |
| 4 | But here he had to leave me to attend to stores which were being brought on board , and some twenty minutes later I could see the place for myself . |
| 5 | Twenty years later he could still recall the event : ‘ I can think about my loyal dog buried in the snow , ’ ( Death Of A Lady 's Man ) . |
| 6 | Two minutes later I could hardly hear myself , so I smiled ( less warmly , I admit ) and suggested that the time had come for walkies . |
| 7 | Now it is only his second touch of the ball , two minutes later it could have been two nil ; as Ian Beechey found Nigel Mott in space , he rounded the Rayner 's keeper , but Hanger Hines cleared it off the line . |
| 8 | But two weeks later I could not have quoted any of that translation ; it had gone from my mind , never to surface again . |
| 9 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |