Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adv] he could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amiss wondered how long he could last without murdering this old fool : the ffeatherstonehaugh crew were sparkling wits by comparison . |
| 2 | He wondered if he could do her dreadful job ; or rather , how long he could stand it if he ever tried it . |
| 3 | In fact , he was able to take the morning coach to Holborn and walk the brief distance to Clerkenwell , but the fare troubled him and he did not know how long he could afford to pay it . |
| 4 | How easily he could dissemble , Merrill thought wearily as she drew up the chair and prepared to take his dictation . |
| 5 | Huy was grimly amused at how easily he could deny his former master 's name . |
| 6 | Only now did it occur to her how easily he could have taken advantage of the situation . |
| 7 | The man knew how close he could approach , then he would turn , drop one shoulder and half-glance behind him , as a mare watches the foal following her . |
| 8 | They would see how still he could sit ! |
| 9 | It was the most mature of his symphonies so far , and it shows how quickly he could assimilate aspects of national style , such as in the brilliant arpeggio passage which opens it — the famous ‘ premier coup d'archet ’ ( opening bow stroke ) of which the French were particularly proud . |
| 10 | Browne had tentatively suggested the summer of that year as the " deadline " for it , but Eliot was uncertain how quickly he could recover his dramatic skills and , since he often needed to work slowly , he believed the spring of 1949 to be a more appropriate date.Throughout the spring and summer of 1948 he worked on it as consistently as he could , although there were egregious interruptions : in April , for example , he had to make the British Council trip to Aix-en-Provence which had been postponed the previous winter . |
| 11 | Mr Gorbachev told the Americans that the Soviet people would judge his perestroika by how quickly he could get food and consumer goods into the shops . |
| 12 | But even as the words echoed in her brain , she knew she would n't voice them , would n't give him the satisfaction of knowing just how childishly he could make her behave . |
| 13 | He seemed intent now on pushing to see how far he could go and she appeared willing to give way in everything in order to pacify . |
| 14 | Bobet was a cyclist who knew just how far he could go before digging deep into his reserves . |
| 15 | In being who he was : that was his vocation , and discovering how far he could go and even , fatally , what he could get away with . |
| 16 | Dobson was an expert at knowing just how far he could go without actually breaking the law . |
| 17 | For example , he enjoyed seeing how far he could push the teachers — with concealed insults , fomenting riots , with prying into their private lives . |
| 18 | Primed with the good advice , but uncertain how far he could follow it , Greg went in through the hall of the cottage , artificially created by modern alterations , and knocked at the far door on the right . |
| 19 | Seeing how closely Weis was watching him , he made an effort to be more warm , more friendly in his greeting there , but all the while he was wondering just how far he could trust the man . |
| 20 | Suddenly it occurred to Alexei that in the event that he failed to return from the embassy the question of solemnising the marriage would not arise , and he wondered again how far he could trust Burun . |
| 21 | He was not quite sure how far he could trust Horridge . |
| 22 | But no desert when it comes to wild life , for this is the Flow Country where David Bellamy brought to popular attention how deep he could sink as he cavorted from tuft to tuft of floating bog . |
| 23 | She had forgotten how fast he could move — he must have been off Chalon in seconds — but as soon as he hauled her to her feet Isabel began to struggle , swinging her free arm up . |
| 24 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |
| 25 | Had she really been so innocent that she 'd forgotten how passionately he could kiss ? |
| 26 | Martin looked up into the dark sky where now he could see a faint pattern of grey , scudding clouds , then whispered , ‘ I do n't think it 'll last long with this wind , and there 's more snow in the air . |