Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [pron] could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have read of a good bishop that was to be burnt for his religion ; and he tried how he could bear it , by putting his fingers into the lighted candle : so I t' other day tried , when Rachel 's back was turned , if I could not scour a pewter plate she had begun . |
| 2 | He tried how he could bear it by putting his fingers into the lighted candle , so I the other day tried if I could scour a pewter plate . |
| 3 | But I expect that you all want to know how I could do it — how I could have walked in and scooped up this yummy young man from the arms of his loving and lawful wife . |
| 4 | In fact , I do n't know how he could authorise it — he has n't got the men . |
| 5 | Do n't know how you could drink it ! |
| 6 | As a photographic subject , but yeah , I , it 's simple and it 's , it 's a bit sort of small , the actual , I do n't know how you could make it any bigger but I do do n't know what you could do . |
| 7 | I do n't know how you could say it was the best . |
| 8 | This leaflet details the main features of the Income & Growth PEP and highlights how it could benefit you . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you happen to know where I could find him now ? ’ |
| 10 | Do n't know where I could put you , except in me bedroom , only if I did it might send me young man potty . |
| 11 | I just do n't know when we could get it all together though — that 's the only problem . ’ |
| 12 | The chief wanted to know when he could bring us news of his uncle 's barges . |
| 13 | And if you can think of that , you can repackage your particular thing not in terms of your own interests and ideas and so forth , but you can package it in such a way that it 's intriguing , or at the very least , the people who are going you hope will use it can actually see how they could use it . |
| 14 | Yeah yeah well you see what he said was he could not see how they could warrant him that sixty odd come as interest justify doing it . |
| 15 | Offers continued to roll in , some so tempting that I did not see how she could refuse them , but with four children now of whom none was over twelve , she was adamant that she wished to be with them , and this meant that we could move further afield . |
| 16 | I wish I could suggest a meeting before I go , but it 's all happened so suddenly I just ca n't see how I could fit it in . |
| 17 | Even if I did , I do n't see how I could silence her . |
| 18 | God knows how much there still is down there ; I 've seen great stacks and bales of it still with the Royal Navy markings on it , and I 've dreamed up any number of ways of getting at it , but short of tunnelling in from the shed and taking the cordite out from the back , so that the bales looked untouched from the inside of the cellar , I do n't see how I could do it . |
| 19 | I had that in mind all week , but I could n't see how I could afford it . ’ |
| 20 | Well I do n't , you do n't see how he could do it ? |
| 21 | Even that slight contact sent a shudder through her body , but she fought it , refusing to let him see how he could move her . |
| 22 | I did not see how he could keep it secret for much longer , but that was his business . |
| 23 | I could n't understand how she could give you up , do n't you see ? |
| 24 | He said he had always known politics was a dirty game and he could not understand how I could endure it . |
| 25 | There 's an unseemly haste among people who do n't have to live on £25 a week to suggest how they could do it better , manage on a minimum and feed the 5,000 . |
| 26 | Ever since the two disastrous meetings she had had recently about Matilda , the first with the Headmistress and the second with the dreadful Mr and Mrs Wormwood , Miss Honey had been thinking a great deal about this child and wondering how she could help her . |
| 27 | She had bought some cigarettes for John and was wondering when she could give them to him . |
| 28 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 29 | ‘ A girl called Louise Stacey has been on to them , asking how she could contact you . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew how I could make you feel , ’ he corrected , ‘ but there 's a great deal of difference between bodily chemistry and love . |