Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [modal v] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't know how he 'll feed his nine year old son Annis . |
| 2 | If it is true that no man knows what may befall him , nor how he may make himself safe against all future evils , is it not therefore the wisest course to make no provision , but to live in the present experience only ? |
| 3 | He talked of all that remained to be done , of how he would do it all , bit by bit ; said that first of all the attic should be examined , for so much rain soaking in must have affected the beams . |
| 4 | The middle-aged manager might have well-thought-out ideas about how he would spend his enforced early retirement . |
| 5 | The smile she flashed into Rune 's brooding face was so blinding that he must have wished he 'd brought sunglasses with him , Gina thought uncharitably , wondering how he would take his peremptory dismissal to the bar . |
| 6 | He wondered how he would find her this evening . |
| 7 | The gleam in the missionary 's eye suggested that Jaq 's account of how much he could perceive — ‘ Even to a glimpse of the Emperor 's beacon ? ’ — and of how he could hide his own spark of phosphorescence , meant that this lad was singularly blessed . |
| 8 | Depending on your interpretation he was either cleverly biding his time , or drifting , baffled as to how he could top his past work . |
| 9 | I did not see how he could keep it secret for much longer , but that was his business . |
| 10 | He was coming home in July , when he would tell her all about his long-term plans to buy his ranch in America . |
| 11 | Had she judged the precise moment when he would make his chilling discovery ? |
| 12 | Soon she would go and he would forget all about her , except perhaps for those wry little moments when he would remember her childish temper and smile to himself in his superior way . |
| 13 | A person would be an active agent in deciding between two or more options when he could anticipate their potential existence and when , in doing so , he drew upon his previous experience and his previously formed values and interests to guide his judgement . |
| 14 | Slowly Lachlan moved to the side , to where he could see his two wives , one on his left , one to his right . |
| 15 | Melanie pictured the safe , made of very black metal , set squarely at the end of the bed where he could see it all the time , in the strange bedroom where he slept with Aunt Margaret in a bed that must sag deeply on his side , since he was so heavy and she was no weight at all . |