Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] could [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jealous people asking how I could earn such money on a government salary . ’ |
| 2 | Could you advise me as to how I could solve this problem ? |
| 3 | She sat on the edge of his bed , eating the Nux Bar and wondering how she could make some money . |
| 4 | If the answer is no , then you need to think about how you could improve that piece of work , somebody is speaking now it 's bad enough you owe me ten minutes if it 's not the best piece of work you 've ever done , why is n't it ? |
| 5 | You are going to decide now , by looking at your graph how you could improve this piece of work and I want you to write the target you decide on , it could be more than one , in the space that says I would improve this work by , you 're to write that now please , off you go and while you 're doing that let's get the register done , shh , shh shh , shh Sarah |
| 6 | Video Plan 4 on page 42 shows how you could use this technique with a cartoon . |
| 7 | Video Plan 3 shows how you could organise silent viewing of a short sequence of about one minute . |
| 8 | CUSTOMER to landlord in The Old Dog and Grommet : ‘ I can tell you how you could sell more beer . ’ |
| 9 | It is hard to see how we could know this truth , or even understand what is meant by it , unless we were acquainted with something which we call ‘ I ’ … |
| 10 | They asked how they could tell other parents the anti-opt-out reasons he gave and he suggested they produce a leaflet . |
| 11 | On 8 March , the establishment will tell architects and administrators how they could cut that cost by as much as 40 per cent . |
| 12 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 13 | I just had no idea what he was doing , how he could get those sounds . |
| 14 | but he , he 's at that age now where I could have another kid and look after it quite easily if I had one , but I do n't wan na go through , not the pregnancy , but I do n't want to go through all the babies and getting up in the night and , one that 'll come out six months old |
| 15 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 16 | That was why she could hear that thrush , that blackbird , that cuckoo . |
| 17 | However you could avoid these situations happening to you , should you have an accident … if you join the Midland Personal Accident Plan now . |
| 18 | We all knew each other anyway — I 've known Si the bass player and Chris the drummer for years — but it was one of those places where everyone was going at the time , where you could meet other musicians and bounce some ideas around . |
| 19 | If you feel , for example , that your appearance lets you down , perhaps you could spend a little time studying magazine features to see where you could make some changes . |
| 20 | I doubt any more whether we live in the sort of society where you could have such rules . |
| 21 | But after a few shows together you got to the point where you could read each other 's thoughts . |
| 22 | Martha rarely went from the valley to where she could meet young men . |
| 23 | Over a period of time , it 's the meetings to begin with , but if you could then reach a stage where she could sort most problems out herself and only came to you when necessary . |
| 24 | Winning Veronica 's confidence to the point where she could ask direct questions about her husband 's death looked like being a slow job , and Loretta 's bank balance would not stand many trips to establishments like the Waldorf . |
| 25 | The theatre was not large , and the bulk of the audience were out in a couple of minutes , umbrellas raised , heads dropped , darting off into the Village to look for their cars , or a place where they could put some drink in their systems , and play critics . |
| 26 | And at that stage , our members were then at the s at the point where they could take industrial action , if they so desired . |
| 27 | He would have to be very careful , only going out after dusk when he could do some jobs for other people in exchange for a little food . |
| 28 | He had sent his outriders on ahead to make ready for him at Haughmond , or Lilleshall , some retired place where he could swallow this wormwood in solitude , out of the eyes of men . |
| 29 | He traced its origin to his former position in the trade union movement ( hinting that he had an agreement to go back to the TUC where he could make more trouble for any government if they pressed him hard ) . |
| 30 | His routines were organized so as to facilitate this intellectual process : weekends were reserved for Colombey , where he could take long walks and mull over problems ; workday schedules at the Elysée were strictly adhered to ; he insisted on absolute punctuality and an atmosphere of unruffled calm . |