Example sentences of "[noun] when [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't need to listen to the words when she could read her future in their eyes . |
| 2 | Packaging and handling charges do not come cheap , so what 's the point of paying for ten plastic packets along with the extra labour when you could buy one box containing 100 hooks and save up to 33 per cent ? |
| 3 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But thieves almost put paid to his invalid car , by stealing the battery and then trying to smash the car when they could n't get it started . |
| 6 | Driving your car when you could have walked is like cheating at cards — you do it because you can get away with it . |
| 7 | Sure , I was aware of the possibility that he too could have the perfect hand — even that he had cunningly rolled that five to mislead my own investment when I could have collared his . |
| 8 | Even then , there was a moment in the doorway when he could have reached her . |
| 9 | Yeah , its just er I feel you know its , its a waste of your life , you know sitting , I have to drive through the , the necessity to work every day , its an hour of my day spent just behind a wheel when I could be in the train , you know reading or doing something more productive |
| 10 | Do n't hoard savings when they could be better used to repay borrowings . |
| 11 | We snatched opportunities when we could , when my children were staying with friends or even , once , and extra dangerously , when they were asleep ( though the fear that one of them might wake put me off so I did n't try that again ) . |
| 12 | He had never achieved a rapport with the automobile and avoided the driving seat when he could . |
| 13 | Noel Hulse , a National Union of Teachers spokesman , said : ‘ It is a pity that resources are being wasted on repairing schools when they could be used for books . |
| 14 | BOUNCERS barred Madonna from a Hollywood club when she could not prove she was over 21 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But soon she experienced the misery of the lonely wife , staying at a Bel Air mansion , coping with two babies and playing tennis when she could to fill the void . |
| 17 | At the prices that were being charged would you go to Slaley Hall when you could go to Portugal ? ’ |
| 18 | Nonetheless , stateless justice was underwritten by the state 's justice with which it coexisted ; and the officers of state justice , for economy of control and to avoid conflict within the force , encouraged groups to make their ad hoc settlements when they could . |
| 19 | I just did n't feel that it was justified , adding notes like that to the file when she could barely uncover all the relevant facts . ’ |
| 20 | What had the members seen for their entrance fees and contributions when it could be shown that in that year they received some £pound9,000 in benefit while over £pound32,000 went into the management of the union ? |
| 21 | ‘ They lined the rapids when they could , lowering down the boats on a rope . |
| 22 | Office workers who on the first day possible in the early year had rushed out in their lunch hour to cover any patch of grass with bare legs and arms , floral patterns and jackets , as if some strange immediate growth had been brought out by the sun , to die back in the early afternoon , had by now got the habit of staying in the dark bowels of buildings when they could . |
| 23 | What about in rounders when you could n't pick up the ball . |
| 24 | Also engineers are singled out here as the culprits when it could well have been social ( and technically incompetent ) scientists ! |
| 25 | They seem to have treated the lifters as brainlessly as they did a student with a night job in Bournemouth when he could n't give a sample despite an hour of trying on a roasting day in London . |
| 26 | ( A pity , really , just at the point when you could do it so well ! ) |
| 27 | Cos we just got a real fright when we could n't stop the water pouring out . |
| 28 | By the time of his third Melbourne Cup in November he had already won eight races as a five-year-old and had become a national idol , but the handicapper had shovelled ten stone ten pounds on his back for the Cup , so it was no disgrace when he could finish only eighth . |
| 29 | Why they should want ti work in them smelly places when they could be out in God 's good air , Aah sh 'll nivver know . ’ |
| 30 | England full-back Jon Webb had some game … he joined in the attacks when he could and kicked five out of five penalties … |