Example sentences of "[pers pn] [Wh adv] [pron] could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because so many parents were asking her how they could help their children with reading , teacher and mother of three Barbara Geere wrote Seven Ways to Help Your Child With Reading ( Seven Ways Series , £1.95 ) , which sets out simply how to make a start , build up your child 's confidence , make reading fun ( with plenty of learning games to make or buy ) and , at the end , how to form letters . |
| 2 | I told him how I could freeze my eidetic images , then project my phantom body into them , to discover things that I could not possibly have known . |
| 3 | Mark asked him how he could reconcile his views with what was clearly Britain s basic needs ; the need to maintain a strong manufacturing base as a defence capability ; the need to correct a massive and worsening trade deficit on manufactured products ; and the need to provide talented school-leavers with creative career opportunities in the manufacturing sector as designers , physicists , chemists and engineers as opposed to the more mundane jobs in the service sector as warehousemen and handlers of other countries ' goods . |
| 4 | All I did was spend my time tell telling them how they could do their job better . |
| 5 | ‘ But would you care to tell me how I could turn it round , since the snow 's narrowed the width of the road to a single track ? |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't know who he was , either , but he asked me where he could find you , and I told him I did n't know , and he said ‘ Are you new too ? ’ and then you arrived and … ’ |
| 7 | And if he ever decided to stay over when he had n't told me in advance , he 'd always ring and tell me where I could reach him . |
| 8 | ‘ We could n't have , you did n't even tell us where we could find her , ’ said Merlyn . |