Example sentences of "how he [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if he disagrees or do n't do anything , but I ca n't see how he ca n't leave it , can be without it , has to know |
| 2 | That 's how he 'll always be . |
| 3 | He was studying to be a commercial artist and when he was in Mr Frampton 's art class ( this was Peter Frampton 's father ) in his later tears at Bromley tech , Frampton lectured the form on how he would not tolerate tapered trousers . ’ |
| 4 | In the silent happiness that was life in la Sologne , Jean-Claude explained to me why he was not working on Frontenac 's libretto and how he would not do so for any amount of money . |
| 5 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 6 | He told him how much of his pay he had saved up for today , how he would personally kick him all the way back to Newmarket if he did n't win , how he was a big beautiful bastard that could n't fucking lose , could he ? |
| 7 | Elinor felt privileged to be one of his girlfriends for she was aware how little he cared for women and how he would sometimes wince when sitting next to one . |
| 8 | The Eastphalians and Engrians submitted without giving battle , and Charles retired to consider how he might best keep the Saxons under submission . |
| 9 | She wanted to cry and she imagined the tears flowing down her cheeks and dripping on to her jersey and how he 'd probably say that she should go somewhere else to cry . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps not , ’ Travis agreed , then said how he 'd dearly love to ring Rosemary at her parents ' home , but that he knew for sure that he could definitely give up even the frail hope he had left of sharing his life with Rosemary if he did that . |
| 11 | After the matinée , she had met him for tea , and he had held her hand , and looked soulful , and told her how innocent she was and how easy it would be to fall in love with her , but how he must n't , he could n't , because he would be leaving and it would n't be fair to her , and anyway , he had his career to think of , etc . |
| 12 | It also gives the PRO a chance to find out how he can best help that particular journalist , and the questions of background material , samples for photography or testing and in-depth features can all be raised . |
| 13 | One very distinguishable talent of Dickens is the way how he can so easily move from a very serious solemn scene to an extremely comical one . |
| 14 | But Jenny told him , without making any bones about it , how he could best say thank you to her . |
| 15 | Henry had been involved in many of these discussions , had indeed had a pint with Dave Sprott to debate the issue , but when Elinor put the question to him he saw , suddenly , how he could not only perform a helpful , neighbourly act , and another last tribute , but also serve something that would , in all senses of the word , Finish 'Em . |
| 16 | They recall the occasion when , as a boy , he had read in an epigraph two lines from Henry King 's " Exequy " — and how he could not rest until he had found and read the poem entire . |
| 17 | He remembered writing of Paula 's death , — of how he could not live without knowing the truth , and how , if he gave himself into the hands of the great Whale , he knew that he would be reunited with her in death . |
| 18 | They heard from two different witnesses how Harris had told how he could not live without her and if he could not have Faye , then no one else could . |
| 19 | How he could just sit there in that silence was the hardest thing I have ever tried to figure out . |
| 20 | I suspect that Pound never went further into Aubeterre than this inn , and one needs to have walked in his footsteps from Chalais to Aubeterre to see how he could well have done this , skirting the hill , stopping for perhaps a mid-day meal in the inn , and then pushing on at once for La Tour Blanche . |
| 21 | It explained how he could n't find switches and did n't know the layout very well . |
| 22 | Yet each time that third line came round the tune seemed to gather itself up and find new energy from somewhere , and perhaps it did n't fall quite so far each time in the fourth , and Tabitha was captivated despite herself , watching the pretty man play and wondering how he would end it , how he could ever resolve the disagreement between the rush and the ebb , until she realized suddenly that he had , with a quiet , lilting little rill that ran up and then down and flicked its tail and was gone . |
| 23 | How he could ever have bowled legspin so successfully with his fraught temperament is a marvel in itself . |
| 24 | Yes , but will the Minister say how he could ever expect to balance exports and imports when the Chancellor has forecast growth of only 1 per cent ; when we have rising unemployment , falling investment and companies going bankrupt ? |
| 25 | Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time . |
| 26 | He had the added confusion of not knowing what he wanted to be and when an ambition did dawn , not knowing how he could possibly achieve it . |
| 27 | Comment was made this morning , er earlier on by Mr Timothy about the fact that the new settlement would be likely to generate a higher usage of transport than is the norm for Greater York , if I understood him correctly , erm , knowing the public transport system in Greater York , erm , I fail to see how he could possibly come to that conclusion , because bus services in the rural part of Greater York are very poor , clearly that 's partly because of the distribution of the rural population , and I fail to see that a settlement of the size being suggested would actually generate a level of usage of public transport any higher than that which ex already exists in the York in flat , and certainly no higher than exists within the exis existing urban area . |
| 28 | There was what has come to be called the inverted story , that is , a mystery which begins with the murderer being seen to commit the murder and in which the interest lies in seeing how he will not get away with it despite that apparent perfection of his method . |
| 29 | How he will now speak of the methods used last weekend by the security services could become clear in the next few days . |