Example sentences of "[vb past] how [pers pn] could " 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 | And I learnt how we could organize to improve our conditions through sharing as a community . |
| 4 | These machines created a stink in holland last year when a magazine showed how they could be used to copy paper money . |
| 5 | The flying display , with a falconer , showed how they could be controlled , even in free flight . |
| 6 | A recent drama festival in Bihar , Central India , showed how it could be used to raise awareness about the region 's marginalised communities . |
| 7 | Instead , I wrote a short paper with Jan Moss in the same journal in which we pointed out this problem with the bubble and showed how it could be resolved . |
| 8 | The desk was a chaos of open books — she never understood how he could read so many at once . |
| 9 | We showed how to achieve certain basic patterns by using the processes that we discovered and then we saw how they could be combined to achieve a large class of patterns . |
| 10 | Now Jenna knew how he could afford the great house outside Paris . |
| 11 | ‘ You knew how he could get if his acting was n't working out — it was about the only thing that could really bring him down . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I knew how I could make you feel , ’ he corrected , ‘ but there 's a great deal of difference between bodily chemistry and love . |
| 13 | And you kissed him ; and I thought how he could be with you whenever he wished . |
| 14 | For Augustine , mystical experience operated in the gap between the Creator and creature , enabling man to recognise his own true nature and so come to a knowledge of God — a process possible only because of the Incarnation , the love poured out from the being of God to his creatures which revealed how He could be known . |
| 15 | They asked how they could tell other parents the anti-opt-out reasons he gave and he suggested they produce a leaflet . |
| 16 | " The judge asked how we could possibly do any more with the garden , and it 's true that the only way forward is by making small changes , which we like to do as it gives us so much enjoyment . " |
| 17 | I remembered this when one of my daughters asked how I could be so apathetic about the world and its problems . |
| 18 | But the Scottish Office remained unsure how the board could proceed without the use of juniors , and asked how it could continue once the exemption ended . |
| 19 | And , if you recall , I asked how she could be so sure . |
| 20 | For some time I was left standing at the counter but eventually one of four assistants came over , introduced himself to me as Mr Palmer and asked how he could help . |
| 21 | Amidst the excitement after that earthquake , a team of physicists from Athens University discussed how they could put their knowledge of the behaviour of solids to practical use for predicting earthquakes . |
| 22 | Irritably , she slammed it down and went to wash and change , while she considered how she could trace this mysterious boy , this disgusting boy , this juvenile delinquent . |
| 23 | Her own imagination suggested how it could have happened . |
| 24 | ‘ She will entertain us every evening after supper , ’ said Goibniu and Floy nearly abandoned the entire thing there and then , because there had been something so meaningful in the way that Goibniu had said entertain that he wondered how they could ever have considered leaving her here alone . |
| 25 | The kitchen seemed dark and cheerless and Hari wondered how she could go on living and working in a house that held so many memories . |
| 26 | When Liz Headleand woke on the first day of 1980 and found herself in bed with her husband , she remembered instantly the scene of the night before , and wondered how she could ever have been so upset by it . |
| 27 | Miranda fleetingly wondered how she could ever have thought that Adam had a withholding , guarded nature . |
| 28 | She wondered how she could explain this to him if he did n't see it already . |
| 29 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
| 30 | This Scarlet had done , and now she wondered how she could have : maybe you became more squeamish the further away you grew from the experience of childbirth . |