Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And deliberately provoking it whenever I could without making myself obvious . ’ |
| 2 | I mentioned that I missed my son and how I could n't see him . |
| 3 | Natasha 's father was there and was siding with my mother , saying how I could n't take Natasha , I was an unfit mother and how he was going to get me done . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 5 | the was that the first one was was more or less science orientated an I I , I looked at it and thought how how I could how I could make it such that it was common |
| 6 | Now , I do n't understand how I could ever have thought I was fat . |
| 7 | I remembered that they had been there all along , and wondered how I could ever have forgotten them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | They could not understand where I had come from , or how I could possibly survive . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He was ribbing me about how I could never score against United under him . |
| 14 | Both the children have brought me through extremely difficult times when I could easily have given up . |
| 15 | Dorothea was there and the person she used to bring as a partner for Faith 's bridge games when I could not play . |
| 16 | So I always had meat during the rainy months when I could not go out with a gun . |
| 17 | Maybe if I keep mum and keep my fingers crossed — what did my father always say when I could n't have something : ‘ Them that ask do n't get , them that do n't ask , do n't want . ’ |
| 18 | There were days when I could n't even walk . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That 's not true because I 've won many of my matches when I could n't hit my serve in court . ’ |
| 20 | There have been many times when I could n't write . |
| 21 | McGahern : ‘ There have been many times when I could n't write ’ |
| 22 | One day when I could n't answer a question about the workings of the British Parliament , Terry said , ‘ What 's the matter , you dumb or what ? ’ |
| 23 | I felt guilty — I seem to do that a lot , like when I could n't be with my parents when my father was dying , even when I know at an intellectual level that I do n't need to . |
| 24 | ‘ You know better than most , Naylor , that there were some nights when I could n't bear to let him go home at all ! ’ |
| 25 | There came a day shortly afterwards when I could no longer ignore the fact that he was losing his mind . |
| 26 | I was subsequently paid to fly by the RAF ; after a lapse of 33 years I returned to the skies five years ago , when I could finally afford a share in a Cherokee which I now fly regularly from Ludham . |
| 27 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 28 | Yep , there 's been a lot of occasions in the last two to three months when I could really have done with access to a computer . |
| 29 | However I could not become a sperm donor ( Letters NI 189 ) , especially if this would mean I would never know my child or the woman who bore it . |
| 30 | A doctor friend of mine found this home on Welfare Island where I could just observe old people . |