Example sentences of "[pron] when [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I checked up on you when I could . ’ |
| 2 | You were getting yourself into a whole load of trouble , Fran , and I needed to ensure that there would be someone around to look after you when I could n't be . |
| 3 | It was , by now , Saturday , a day on which the registrar 's office was normally closed , so special arrangements had to be made and the registrar had to open up just for me , which , I imagine , had n't put him in the best of moods , which manifested itself when I could n't remember the date on which Nigel and I were married . |
| 4 | All that is except this one when it could be said he was dealing with a special case — of cutlery . |
| 5 | Now Léonie was thinking about Thérèse , how unfair it was boys wanted her when anyone could see , however well-developed her figure was , she was n't interested in all that . |
| 6 | Why waste time on her when you could be out making money ? |
| 7 | But there was Dinah ; how would he support her when he could barely support himself ? |
| 8 | She knew very well that he had always regretted marrying her when he could have had Martha , and secretly longed that the family feud could be ended . |
| 9 | Her voice was so dry now that sometimes Kit fancied he heard her when he could not , in the scraping of the boughs of trees , the footfalls in the dusty earth . |
| 10 | But hell , why was she taking all the blame and why was she letting him punish her when he could easily have done some of the running himself ? |
| 11 | Sometimes an emigrant would advertise in the newspaper in Madeira for a suitable wife , marry her by proxy and pay for her passage out to join him when he could afford it . |
| 12 | Will was usually writing , and I did bits of business for him when I could . |
| 13 | And I 'm not prepared to go on paying three thousand a year renting it to give to him when I could be buying one myself . |
| 14 | Rolling over was a painful if not too difficult manoeuvre , but , even with Travis helping all he could , it was an exhausting process trying to find his pocket and reach into it when she could only go by touch . |
| 15 | It would eat anything — bread , even fruit — but I saved bits of melt for it when I could . |
| 16 | It does n't kill you , but it means you spend an hour on it when you could be doing the rest of your exam . |
| 17 | Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration . |
| 18 | He loved books , bought them when he could , and soon knew much of the writing of past and contemporary poets by heart . |
| 19 | The last few months she did n't me and fed me when he could , and cared for me . |
| 20 | Joe always aided and comforted me when he could , in some way of his own , and he always did so at dinner-time by giving me gravy , if there were any . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've got plenty of money , why should you want me when you could pay the best in Swansea ? ’ |