Example sentences of "[noun] when he could not " in BNC.
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| 1 | How dare she , he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page , how dare she enjoy reading books when he could n't ? |
| 2 | He raised the stakes when he could not win . |
| 3 | She took the breast well and slept at night without the drops of laudanum with which the nurse had dosed the infant Benjamin when he could not sleep . |
| 4 | She had been so pleasant since Donald 's death that there were times when he could not believe that he was planning to murder her . |
| 5 | The nights when he could not sleep had been the worst , when the dark thoughts of despair and depression came creeping into the mind . |
| 6 | He stressed that he had relinquished his deferment after only two months , thereby allowing his name to go back into the draft pool at a time when he could not have known that the draft would be shortly replaced by a lottery system . |