Example sentences of "he [vb past] [Wh adv] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | In time Michael too came to accept their centrality , although for a long time he asked when he could go home to his parents . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He 'd been helping his wife to , she must work for the council and he 'd been helping her and he said er the matron at Comfort House had asked and he , and he 'd noticed Jim 's name on when he delivered ours so he knew where they could , he 'd take them . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | ‘ I told him he knew where he could put it ! |
| 7 | The place next door had a large attic that could be divided into two or three rooms — he knew where he could get the partitions for next to nothing . |
| 8 | His tone was grave , but there was a twinkle in his eye as though , heaven forbid , he knew why she could n't seem to keep off the subject of his personal relationships . |
| 9 | I guess he heard Barbara and me discussing the good time we had with you , and he kind of picked up on it , and he wondered why he could n't come down to the Bahamas and isolate himself from drugs . |
| 10 | He wondered where he could find a chance of quieter work . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Standing at the counter waiting for the coffee , he wondered how he could have let it come about , and he felt a stranger to himself . |
| 13 | He wondered how he could get a word , alone , to warn her . |
| 14 | He wondered how he could have displeased the man as he 'd yet to perform for him . |
| 15 | He could see them himself , for that matter , but he wondered how she could . |