Example sentences of "when [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lengthening day that pushes back your train Of clinging shadow , but keeps you here , has woken The seeds from the sleep they fell to when you went Down with them to darkness , the dread time When nothing could reach you , when you were hid away , And I retreated , sorrowing , hidden also ; And seed cast in the barren furrow rotted And trees withered and died ; and in the womb Of many a beast the embryo miscarried And then no germination ; and the earth sickened When in the womb of darkness you were stifled . |
| 2 | Maybe if I keep mum and keep my fingers crossed — what did my father always say when I could n't have something : ‘ Them that ask do n't get , them that do n't ask , do n't want . ’ |
| 3 | His trip here was a homecoming , and there were times when I could see in his eyes that he was reliving his first memories . |
| 4 | I must want my head tested sorting mail all day when I could be picking up wads of it on the lorries . ’ |
| 5 | There was a time when I could have stocked a chemist 's shop with male toiletries ! |
| 6 | I think I obscurely felt relief that I would continue to live alone , to have at least a few hours of the day and night when I could try to regain one of my mixed-up selves . |
| 7 | Dorothea was there and the person she used to bring as a partner for Faith 's bridge games when I could not play . |
| 8 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 9 | There were days when I could n't even walk . ’ |
| 10 | Why would I want to go and wander around on these featureless big sods at the weekend , when I could be rollicking along a precipice on a terrifying , craggy west-coast mountain ? |
| 11 | I identified deeply with Hal 's predicament : there were many moments when I could feel my brain going — especially in Hawaii . |
| 12 | It was this that had caused the shin injury , pushing me on when I could have taken things more slowly . |
| 13 | I was subsequently paid to fly by the RAF ; after a lapse of 33 years I returned to the skies five years ago , when I could finally afford a share in a Cherokee which I now fly regularly from Ludham . |
| 14 | Looking Bob straight in the eye , she added , ‘ There was a time when I could have drifted into marrying him , but no longer . ’ |
| 15 | The greatest single restriction on my practice was not being able to request X-rays when senior medical staff were not in the department , This rendered me ineffective at times when I could be best used , namely evenings and weekends . |
| 16 | Both the children have brought me through extremely difficult times when I could easily have given up . |
| 17 | Second , that having worked hard in the acting profession all my life , the last thing I would enjoy was working the clock round every summer when I could be sunbathing and swimming in Bala Lake . |
| 18 | There came a day shortly afterwards when I could no longer ignore the fact that he was losing his mind . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's not true because I 've won many of my matches when I could n't hit my serve in court . ’ |
| 20 | There have been many times when I could n't write . |
| 21 | McGahern : ‘ There have been many times when I could n't write ’ |
| 22 | So I always had meat during the rainy months when I could not go out with a gun . |
| 23 | One day when I could n't answer a question about the workings of the British Parliament , Terry said , ‘ What 's the matter , you dumb or what ? ’ |
| 24 | By the way , this was the period when I could to a milk shop for a hape'orth of milk , but it 's not the halfpenny that people think now , cos the currency 's been altered quite a lot , it was very trifling , but it 's true . |
| 25 | I had paid my rent early on with the last inelastic cheque I 'd written , had n't paid my Poll Tax , had tried to find bar work but been unsuccessful , and was borrowing off Norris , Gav and a few other pals to buy food , which comprised mostly bread and beans and the odd black pudding supper , plus a cider or two when I could be persuaded to squander my meagre resources on contributing to the funds required for a raid on the local off-licence . |
| 26 | ‘ I tell you , there are times when I could agree with the good doctor of Norwich , old Tom Browne , that it were better if we humans propagated in the manner of trees . |
| 27 | I looked forward to the time when I could speak well enough to talk to them . |
| 28 | I felt guilty — I seem to do that a lot , like when I could n't be with my parents when my father was dying , even when I know at an intellectual level that I do n't need to . |
| 29 | I had no idea when we might be going to Dili , so I was unable to time my campaign , to know when to bring it to a climax , to know when I could afford to cool things down , to be nice to her , for I did n't want to be thrown out of the house there and then , did I ? |
| 30 | She 's not a bad sort but there are times when I could shake her . ’ |