Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I could afford it you know , but erm , there was n't so much money in those days I ca n't remember exactly how much we , we used to get in for coppers you know . |
| 2 | Although she snatched a moment whenever she could to telephone her much missed family , ‘ you could feel her disappointments , her lack of freedom . |
| 3 | Whenever she could afford it Nina tried to buy one of his drawings , but most of the artists thought he was simply a nuisance and told her she was wasting her money . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , she says that whenever she could persuade her scribe to let her dictate to him , ‘ she was hale and whole suddenly in a manner ’ . |
| 5 | It would be many more months till the carapace matured into full symbiotic harmony with his body — and of course his spirit must be tested and tempered in combat before sockets would be cut into the carapace , whereby he could plug himself into power armour in a full fusion of man and equipment . |
| 6 | She cleaned up the room , did not even hear his curses , and thought how nothing could affect her any longer . |
| 7 | Even if I did , I do n't see how I could silence her . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew how I could make you feel , ’ he corrected , ‘ but there 's a great deal of difference between bodily chemistry and love . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | He said he had always known politics was a dirty game and he could not understand how I could endure it . |
| 11 | But this did not mean I was happy with it , or knew , precisely , when and how I could carry it out . |
| 12 | I wish I could suggest a meeting before I go , but it 's all happened so suddenly I just ca n't see how I could fit it in . |
| 13 | But I expect that you all want to know how I could do it — how I could have walked in and scooped up this yummy young man from the arms of his loving and lawful wife . |
| 14 | God knows how much there still is down there ; I 've seen great stacks and bales of it still with the Royal Navy markings on it , and I 've dreamed up any number of ways of getting at it , but short of tunnelling in from the shed and taking the cordite out from the back , so that the bales looked untouched from the inside of the cellar , I do n't see how I could do it . |
| 15 | And I was thinking awful things — like how I could get my revenge … ’ |
| 16 | Now I would be calling a solicitor to see how I could get it dissolved on the best possible terms . |
| 17 | It was broken already so I glued it up , just had a look at it see how I could get it , its broken it again . |
| 18 | ‘ But would you care to tell me how I could turn it round , since the snow 's narrowed the width of the road to a single track ? |
| 19 | I told him how I could freeze my eidetic images , then project my phantom body into them , to discover things that I could not possibly have known . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | That 's how I could afford my passage to England and this holiday . |
| 22 | I had that in mind all week , but I could n't see how I could afford it . ’ |
| 23 | She was filled with an overwhelming desire to strike back at him , and suddenly she knew exactly how she could do it . |
| 24 | Vi knew it too , for how she could prevent it she was too shaken , at the moment , even to contemplate . |
| 25 | As the carriage drove on through Blackmoor Vale , Tess now began to awake from her sorrow and wonder how she could face her parents . |
| 26 | Offers continued to roll in , some so tempting that I did not see how she could refuse them , but with four children now of whom none was over twelve , she was adamant that she wished to be with them , and this meant that we could move further afield . |
| 27 | Debbie hesitated , wondering how she could refuse somebody who had just been so helpful ; but she did . |
| 28 | I could n't understand how she could give you up , do n't you see ? |
| 29 | The Doctor began to speak , in a voice so quiet Piper wondered how she could hear his words above the storm . |
| 30 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |