Example sentences of "[vb infin] how [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 If we had n't had the shop , I do n't know how we could have managed . ’
2 In fact , I do n't know how he could authorise it — he has n't got the men .
3 ‘ I do n't know how he could have done it , but where the hell else could he be ? ’
4 I do not know how I could have coped without you and your friends here . ’
5 ‘ Rain , you must know how I could know .
6 Do n't know how you could drink it !
7 I do n't know how you could do that though .
8 As a photographic subject , but yeah , I , it 's simple and it 's , it 's a bit sort of small , the actual , I do n't know how you could make it any bigger but I do do n't know what you could do .
9 I do n't know , I do n't know how you could deal with them justly .
10 I do n't know how you could say it was the best .
11 I do n't know how she could manage the stairs
12 ‘ And I do n't see how we could have just driven around in a circle .
13 They could n't see how they could go wrong .
14 They can not see how they could begin to generalise about approaches to women in development that could be useful since women are represented in rich and poor , rural and urban , educated and uneducated , all ethnic , religious , cultural , tribal and other groupings .
15 And if you can think of that , you can repackage your particular thing not in terms of your own interests and ideas and so forth , but you can package it in such a way that it 's intriguing , or at the very least , the people who are going you hope will use it can actually see how they could use it .
16 There 's also another problem with land reform in I ca n't really see how they could implement land reform without reverting to similar sorts of they used in which is defining class distinctions and the chaos that that causes and the problems it causes erm it is almost as if , if you go back to erm settling of accounts
17 Yeah yeah well you see what he said was he could not see how they could warrant him that sixty odd come as interest justify doing it .
18 ‘ In virtually every respect , I ca n't see how they could have done better . ’
19 I do n't see how they could have caused an explosion .
20 Nor did she see how she could explain here , now .
21 She did n't see how she could fit Len and herself in anywhere .
22 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 .
23 She was longing for a drink — some of her emergency ration of scotch — but she did not see how she could have one herself without also offering one to her visitor , something she had no intention of doing .
24 Then she said , ‘ I do n't see how she could have turned you down — knowing how you felt about her . ’
25 Except that that kiss and her response to it had taken her so much by surprise that , even in hindsight , she did not see how she could have forestalled it .
26 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 .
27 Even if I did , I do n't see how I could silence her .
28 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 .
29 This was the Luton Post Office murder , and although , in view of my long labours on the Meehan case , I had resolved not to take up any more cases , this was one that I did not see how I could refuse .
30 ‘ I do n't see how I could leave Harry with Karen and come to London twice a week . ’
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