Example sentences of "[art] time [Wh adv] you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we go way back — way , way back , back to the time when you could still buy mono records , when kiwi fruit were yet to be devised , when the khaki-clad representative of the Automobile Association would salute the passing motorist , when a packet of Gold Flake cost a groat and a half and you still had change for a flagon of mead . |
| 2 | ‘ There was a time when you could n't make jokes about Germans , but I think perhaps it 's becoming fashionable again . ’ |
| 3 | One who claimed to revere life yet who wrote , at a time when you could be hanged for stealing a lamb , those dreadful , gloating sonnets on ( ‘ Fit retribution by the moral code ! ’ ) the punishment of death ? |
| 4 | But it just did n't seem to be a time when you could er get an entry . |
| 5 | There was a time when you could n't go through a week , perhaps could n't even going through a day , without hearing the British National Anthem somewhere . |