Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] i could " in BNC.
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1 | I never run when I know I could crawl . ’ |
2 | When I know I could make valuable contributions to the business … ’ |
3 | Eventually when I felt I could not take any more I threw the blanket off and sat up . |
4 | I went back to bathe my eyes and when I returned I could not see them . ’ |
5 | Another door , Harry had said , down by the river 's edge : and in fact , when I looked I could see it , a once-painted slab of wood set in brickwork , its bottom edge barely six inches above the water . |
6 | ‘ The big turning point was against Norway , when I proved I could go for 90 minutes . |
7 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
8 | ‘ I wondered what exactly was going on when I found I could n't get into my own garage because of a great red car parked in the way . ’ |
9 | You took my youth , my innocence — everything I had ! — and then you flung me aside when you knew I could give you nothing … and you left me nothing ! ’ |
10 | I thought she might not be there long and when she left I could stop her and try to persuade her . |
11 | I could n't really tell what it was till she told me , but when she did I could see it . |
12 | I had few friends , just one or two left over from school , but on the infrequent occasions when we met I could see from their faces that they pitied me , finding me foolish and Syl a bore . |
13 | When we arrived I could n't come into the house because I knew … thought I knew what was coming . |
14 | I could only see him when they said I could , and they would be stood right next to me , watching me all the time . |
15 | Well when he said I could come it was er September . |
16 | When he discovered I could play the piano , whenever we were off together he dragged me down to one of the older lecture rooms in the Medical School basement that happened to possess a piano , to thump out the background beat . |
17 | I knocked on his door and when he answered I could tell from his face that he 'd been crying . |