Example sentences of "how [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I said that it would be unkind and discourteous to decline a visit , but I could not for the life of me see how I could help him where persons of much greater power were impotent . |
| 32 | I had that in mind all week , but I could n't see how I could afford it . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ The thief did that , ’ she told him , ‘ and I do n't quite know how I can repair it . |
| 34 | Could you possibly tell me what this was , what caused it and how I can prevent it from happening again ? |
| 35 | Tell me how I can make it up to her . ’ |
| 36 | Do you have any suggestions on how I can get them to budge ? |
| 37 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
| 38 | I 'll see how I can help you in the meantime . |
| 39 | Usually when I sit and stare at my blank sheets of A4 paper every month , I am trying to think how I can help you with your Duomatic machines . |
| 40 | ‘ I do n't know how I can help you . |
| 41 | " Do tell me how I can help you . " |
| 42 | ‘ In any case , ’ he continued , ‘ I do not see how I can help you . |
| 43 | ‘ I 'm sorry about Billy , but I do n't see what it has to do with me or how I can help you . |
| 44 | And if you , if you do n't do that , many people will pick it up and say , you know , ‘ There 's been a new thing , what the hell , I do n't see how I can use it , ’ into the wastepaper basket . |
| 45 | And here 's how I 'd change them : |
| 46 | They must have realized how I 'd cherish them . |
| 47 | Even if I found one I do n't know how I 'd use it . |
| 48 | Not how I 'd describe it myself . |
| 49 | I said as how I 'd see you through the move and I 've already stayed on longer , just to help out , like . ’ |
| 50 | That was how I used to treat them . |
| 51 | This world is called Positos VI PH Wow , how I used to hate it ! |
| 52 | For the moment , my mother still recognises me but later on I do n't know how she 'll take it . |
| 53 | She had no idea of how she might use it : draining him of pity would be worse than draining him of money , and she would drown in guilt . |
| 54 | She thought of him , of how he must feel now , mourning his dead sister and wishing he had had some last word from her ; and then , how she would give him Mrs Gotobed 's message , to comfort him . |
| 55 | I had no idea how she would take it , but on past showing from other senior staff nurses I suspected badly . |
| 56 | He waited , breath held in , to see how she would take it . |
| 57 | He was not sure how she would take it , leaving the house before they had intended and moving up north ; also , in the last few years he had got into the habit of sparing her any unnecessary decisions or arguments . |
| 58 | Heaven knew how she would conceal it at school tomorrow , especially as she had games . |
| 59 | I often think how she would despise me when I am driven by curiosities to ask the children what they had for lunch when they were invited out . |
| 60 | She was weepy when her husband was first admitted to hospital , concerned as to how she would find him and worried as to what would happen if he came home . |