Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] when [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the little things she missed such as those blissful moments of privacy when she could listen to her favourite composers on the car stereo at full blast . |
| 2 | What about in rounders when you could n't pick up the ball . |
| 3 | Neither should he be forced to remain in hospital when he could be treated in the community . |
| 4 | It was odd that he 'd first spoken to her in English when he could n't possibly have known … |
| 5 | Beatrice Hastings commented on it obliquely in her column and the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz , who used to invite Max Jacob and Modi to lunch when he could afford it , found himself warmly advised to embrace the faith . |
| 6 | Surely a being so undeveloped — no , not even a being , an appendage , a little lifeless nubbin of my own flesh — had no claim on me , no claim on life when it could n't even sustain an existence of its own . |
| 7 | In turn the later reptiles could diversify on land when they could lay eggs away from a watery environment . |
| 8 | Mrs Singh expressed a worry about Balbinder refusing to dress himself and ordering her to get him ready for school when he could do this perfectly well if he wanted to . |
| 9 | The reason for this seems to be that the opportunity cost of keeping boys at school when they could go out to work is greater than for girls , especially for poor rural families . |
| 10 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |