Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fancy falling in love with the same man twice — when I knew he could never be interested in me ! ’ |
| 2 | Eventually when I felt I could not take any more I threw the blanket off and sat up . |
| 3 | I went back to bathe my eyes and when I returned I could not see them . ’ |
| 4 | Just when I thought it could n't get any better the Turkish police steamed in a chinned Big Nose and Bryan ‘ As I say ’ Knobson . |
| 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 | He had returned from Addis Ababa two days before , apparently cured , but his throat had now flared up again and when I arrived he could hardly speak . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | So , just when you thought you could n't afford a real Paul Reed Smith and were going to spend what money you had managed to save on something else , along comes the new EG range . |
| 11 | You admit you hate me , yet it did n't stop you from practically raping me when you thought you could get away with it . |
| 12 | It rained that Summer and when you thought it could not rain any more , it rained again . |
| 13 | when you said they could 've done it |
| 14 | 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 ! ’ |
| 15 | When she felt she could not naturally stand by the window any longer she went and inspected the gritty old review copies of books which had somehow collected over the years on the office shelves — Take Your Car to North Africa ! |
| 16 | There were times , as Mhoira once wryly remarked , when she wished she could join the Masons or even use the gents ' lavatory . |
| 17 | She had not wanted to love this man , especially when she knew he could never love her back . |
| 18 | Furthermore , she was reaching the point when she knew she could n't go on working with Beatrice and the others , deceiving them with her wrong-doings . |
| 19 | I thought she might not be there long and when she left I could stop her and try to persuade her . |
| 20 | So deeply and dreamlessly that when she woke she could n't think at first where she was ; nor place the strange noise at the back of her head . |
| 21 | She had spoken the truth when she said she could n't imagine her life without him . |
| 22 | She was right when she said he could be a bastard , he really could . |
| 23 | I could n't really tell what it was till she told me , but when she did I could see it . |
| 24 | My relationship with Isobel started going wrong when we discovered she could n't have children and started having infertility treatment . |
| 25 | We , on the other hand , were at that stage of life when we felt we could find time for anything that took our fancy . |
| 26 | When we said we could not recall the SoS intervening to revise county estimates of population growth downwards ( although he had just intervened to revise Gwynedd 's upwards ) we were told that of course Mr Hunt shares the counties ' desire for growth and expansion . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When we arrived I could n't come into the house because I knew … thought I knew what was coming . |
| 29 | I was just thinking that maybe at the beginning of the day people could , if she knows who is due she could actually write that in , and when they came she could just tick that that they 'd arrived . |
| 30 | I could only see him when they said I could , and they would be stood right next to me , watching me all the time . |