Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [Wh adv] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was Hayling and John Hoyland , Chris Walsh 's new assistant , who knew exactly how it could be done . |
| 2 | She was filled with an overwhelming desire to strike back at him , and suddenly she knew exactly how she could do it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Folly wondered just how she could have been so naïve as to accept Luke 's explanation of the porter 's tale . |
| 5 | And then her heart almost stopped as she remembered — and wondered instantly how she could ever have forgotten . |