Example sentences of "when you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | It simply means that you have ‘ frozen ’ on the airbrake lever and have undershot when you could have saved the situation . |
| 2 | Packaging and handling charges do not come cheap , so what 's the point of paying for ten plastic packets along with the extra labour when you could buy one box containing 100 hooks and save up to 33 per cent ? |
| 3 | But why go to all that trouble to make a 2D character appear solid when you could generate it on a computer in 3D in the first place ? |
| 4 | But maybe your Ministerial colleague is n't going right for the very top , McLeish thought with unreasonable conviction , and you were going to stop her working at Yeo Davis when you could . |
| 5 | Time was when you could find an old millstone round the back of the shed at your local nursery and offer the owner 15 quid to take it away . |
| 6 | ‘ At a late stage , when you could n't change very much . |
| 7 | You 'll be surprised when you could need it . |
| 8 | ‘ That was in the days when they were laying tracks on the ice ; in the days , too , when you could get married out there . ’ |
| 9 | You may sound like a Victorian headmaster , but how much worse would you feel to read of those people being injured , lost or killed when you could have prevented it ? |
| 10 | • when you could buy all of the top five best-selling singles and still have change form a pound ? |
| 11 | You use phrases like ‘ instead of ’ , ‘ for not ’ or ‘ without ’ , to praise your child for desisting from previous bad behaviour , thus : ‘ Thank you for sharing your toy instead of snatching it away ’ ; ‘ I think you 're a big boy for not whining when you could n't go out ’ ; ‘ you got ready for bed ? without a fuss ’ . |
| 12 | A pretty reckless lie when you could so easily have checked , but he often demonstrates an indifference to risk . |
| 13 | THERE was a time , I suppose , when you could expect to carry the essentials of modern technological developments in your head , and retrieve them pretty quickly and accurately . |
| 14 | And fancy borrowing her ghastly old umbrella , when you could have had anyone else 's for the asking ! ’ |
| 15 | Even when you could figure it out , the student generally could n't play it anyway ! |
| 16 | The ideal way would be to call your own death , to fear it all through life , and then reach an age where fear disappears , when you could say , ‘ I 'm ready now . |
| 17 | At the prices that were being charged would you go to Slaley Hall when you could go to Portugal ? ’ |
| 18 | Another example would be a picture made up of shades of grey , when you could accompany a grey or silver frame with a pale mount , perhaps dove grey in colour , with a dark charcoal backing which would show off all the silvery grey leaves and white flowers in the design . |
| 19 | Another idea would be the lace anniversary , when you could perhaps arrange some cow parsley over a fabric lace background . |
| 20 | So you wo n't have to shuffle the chops or the toast , when you could be getting on with the vegetables . |
| 21 | Some time , not that long ago , when the sun always shone , when you could still hear church bells over the roar of traffic , and when the bobby rode a bike not a panda . |
| 22 | Why stay rooted to the spot while some shaman with a drum machine picks your pocket when you could be flying high with Coil ? |
| 23 | ‘ You 've got plenty of money , why should you want me when you could pay the best in Swansea ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Nor did you , when you could get out of it . |
| 25 | The name Tourmalet means literally ‘ bad way round ’ , but that was a billing which the col earned in more demanding times than the present , when there was no proper road over the pass but when you could hire porters to carry you from one valley to the next by chair . |
| 26 | Why invent a mystery force that magically knows how hard to pull on everything to make them go round the same path when you could say that everything has to go in that curved path because that is how the space itself is curved ? |
| 27 | To Branson , paying tax was ‘ a waste of money ’ when you could plough that money back into the company . |
| 28 | Why waste time on her when you could be out making money ? |
| 29 | It does n't kill you , but it means you spend an hour on it when you could be doing the rest of your exam . |
| 30 | ‘ What makes you think you can succeed now , when you could n't all those years before ? ’ |