Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [adv] [verb] how [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must also show how it is possible to translate a novel into the visual medium , as a film . |
| 2 | He 'll never know how I love him . ’ |
| 3 | He did n't say anything , but she could imagine the ranging of his thoughts — how he himself had tried to talk her into something , though he could n't know how she had stonewalled past the point where she knew what she was doing . |
| 4 | He could n't understand how his world had collapsed and although he said to himself , several times a day , that it was all the fault of the theatre , that sick , all-pervading fever that seemed to turn everyone foolish and mad , in his heart he knew it was more than that . |
| 5 | He could n't understand how I had been married and been in the bloody Air Force and yet did n't know . |
| 6 | He could n't remember how he came to be here . |
| 7 | It seemed to Alexei as he considered it that a great deal of effort must be required to sustain such a relationship , and he could not imagine how his father could be bothered with it , or how the women could be content . |
| 8 | Richardson said he could not understand how his men had thrown away the game . |
| 9 | He said he had always known politics was a dirty game and he could not understand how I could endure it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , while the views of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) on Europe have not always been similar to mine , I was pleased to hear him say that he could not see how it was possible for 12 Finance Ministers in ECOFIN — about which we hear a great deal these days — to control a European central bank established on the model set out in the present draft treaty prepared by the Dutch Government . |
| 12 | He could not know how his words had affected her . |
| 13 | Ask Jacob Manor about the land that belonged to Mrs Zamzam 's husband in the village of Um Al-Farajh and he could immediately explain how it came into the hands of the development authority and was then leased to the village of Ben Ami . |
| 14 | He could only see how I had been , not how I was . |
| 15 | Though over thirty years had passed , he could still remember how his first major role for the Oxford University Dramatic Society had been greeted by an undergraduate critic ( who , incidentally , later became a particularly malevolent Minister of Health and Social Security ) : |
| 16 | But he would not reveal how his daughter 's character — child bride Fizz — would be written out . |
| 17 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 18 | He would never understand how his mother had managed to manoeuvre so many bulky items up the stepladder and through the hatch . |
| 19 | He ca n't change how he thinks . |
| 20 | Sometimes an opportunity is so obvious to the person who has thought of it that he can not imagine how it is not equally obvious to everyone else . |
| 21 | He can not imagine how he got here , with his son with … and a whole plane full of … and some fat spiv in a green tie next to him . |