Example sentences of "how [pron] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If not , apparently , they 've worked out how everyone will actually go to school . |
| 2 | She begins one sentence : ‘ Although I have no idea how I shall usefully fill the remainder of my life … ’ |
| 3 | I do n't know how I 'll ever let her go to school . |
| 4 | — you were always a gentleman while you were at Kirkcaldy and that 's how I 'll always think of you , regardless of where you are in the future . |
| 5 | I suppose I must have been intending to explain to Mr Farraday how I would thus be able to explore an option which might prove the ideal solution to our present small problems here in this house . |
| 6 | Alec Clifton-Taylor describes this stone as being ‘ absolutely dependable ’ , which is how I would also describe ‘ The Hagge ’ . |
| 7 | Every time I wonder about going to join George and to use my TEFL qualification , I wonder how I would REALLY do teaching English to people , though I guess I have had quite a lot of ad hoc and ungrammatical ( ! ) experience with the various language students who have stayed here . |
| 8 | ‘ Cypress Hill are smoking funk , and they 've rolled it into a fat album featuring ‘ How I Could Just Kill A Man ’ and ‘ Hand On The Pump ’ . |
| 9 | Now , I do n't understand how I could ever have thought I was fat . |
| 10 | I remembered that they had been there all along , and wondered how I could ever have forgotten them . |
| 11 | I could n't understand how I could possibly make the individual pine-needles knit ; it was like trying to carry grain in a net , or water in a cloth . |
| 12 | Talei said later : ‘ I was thrilled to have found my real parents but I did n't know how I could possibly get out there . ’ |
| 13 | They could not understand where I had come from , or how I could possibly survive . |
| 14 | ‘ Only then someone destroyed my confidence , my ability to trust , and , looking at you now , I ca n't for the life of me see how I could possibly have thought myself in love with someone so shallow , so completely self-centred . ’ |
| 15 | As I was unable to see how I could realistically expect students to take responsibility for classes after only six weeks in the School of Education , I decided ( after much self doubt ) to put the students on their first teaching practice in the fourth and fifth years of schools offering our joint GCE O Level/CSE French for Communication syllabus where they would be expected to work with the teachers in a variety of roles . |
| 16 | He was ribbing me about how I could never score against United under him . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't see how I can possibly help you , ’ she had said firmly . |
| 18 | Everyday I look at myself , and see how I can better myself . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know how I can ever thank you . |
| 20 | How I can never get through to your programme , never ever ever . |
| 21 | But I ca n't see how I 'd actually be able to use that . ’ |
| 22 | Write a report , warning her briefly of any problems and difficulties of interpretation that might occur and suggest how she might best proceed with the study . |
| 23 | She had not realised how she would never stop needing him but now she could see the future and it was dark . |
| 24 | He guessed that was how she would always be , blocking out everything for the preferred world of her own creation until an idea was spent . |
| 25 | It was touching to me to see how she would sometimes act helpless because she loved him being , as he often was , masterful with her , as well as tender ; and for his part it was easy to see that he thought her a wonderful woman and admired every inch of her . |
| 26 | Theresa 's had to get a gas mask for little James but she ca n't imagine how she 'd ever put it on the poor child . |
| 27 | That Ann probably be alright now , but that 's how she should ever so |
| 28 | Aunt Harriet would have been cross , normally , for the seat of the swing made green press-marks on her skirt , but the visitor had spoken up for her , taken whatever blame there was and Aunt Harriet had led Eleanor away to wash her hands before tea , telling her how very , very lucky she was , and how she must always be grateful to the Minister and remember this occasion in future years . |
| 29 | It screwed me up thinking how the invalid 's hopes must have soared at the sound of my entry , and how she must now be falling into deeper and deeper misery because of the silence and the nothing happening . |
| 30 | She wondered again what sort of trouble he was in and how she could best help . |