Example sentences of "how [indef pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She cleaned up the room , did not even hear his curses , and thought how nothing could affect her any longer . |
| 2 | I think of [ name ] and how someone could do that to a wee woman like that . |
| 3 | She stole into the kitchen to find Sabina and beg some hot water in secret , before the others found her out ; Sabina giggled and her eyes flicked from side to side as Rosa described how she must have sleep-walked , how dangerous it was , how someone could have accidentally woken her and she might have fallen down , without being able to put out a hand to stop her fall , and died . |
| 4 | The question of how one could broach the topic of reducing his responsibilities was not , then , an easy one . |
| 5 | Marshall raised the question of how one could go about drawing financial-value contours on a portfolio grid . |
| 6 | Above all I fail to see how one could worship God or expand one 's religious sensibilities by looking to this past . |
| 7 | If it is accepted that we are in possession of logically adequate criteria of particular-identification , I do not see how one could deny that such criteria are ever fulfilled ; for how else would we know that they are indeed adequate ? |
| 8 | There was an intense debate over whether auditors should have a right or a duty to report and , in either event , how one could define what exactly the auditors would be expected to volunteer . |
| 9 | In the High Court , Taylor J found it ‘ very difficult to see how one could come to any other conclusion than that J had a learning difficulty ’ . |
| 10 | Mrs Hollidaye had pointed out how one could see creatures even more clearly when they were silhouetted as in a shadow cut-out . |
| 11 | One great difficulty in the event was that the picture of the man of science as an open-minded searcher after truth does not fit all of them ; indeed it is hard to see how anybody could work in the kind of vacuum envisaged by some of those who invoke a Baconian inductive method . |
| 12 | I do n't know how anyone could sit and listen to tapes . |
| 13 | Do n't assume you 're being told the whole story this week just because you ca n't imagine how anyone could distort it . |
| 14 | Accordingly , leaders of the Jewish community were packed off to Vienna to receive first-hand information on organising mass emigration , though how anyone could think of forcing thousands of destitutes over the border — . |
| 15 | Did anyone else see on teletext last night , that gobber Fergie was voted best manger in the world ? admittedly by some shitty magazine , but how anyone could think that he 's a good manager is beyond me . |
| 16 | It 's hard to see how anyone could fail to have been convinced by the arguments put forward by the ‘ pro ’ lobby on Wednesday afternoon . |
| 17 | He was backed by Walton colleague Daphne Hall , who said she could not see how anyone could fail to support it , and felt it was better to have the Naze under a management scheme . |
| 18 | Fowler looked at the tiny fields of black soil and wondered how anyone could scratch a living from them . |
| 19 | ‘ I never could understand how anyone could feel any enthusiasm for going ahead . |
| 20 | How anyone could thread bits of bread on hooks then snag the poor buggers in the crop and just reel them in I 'll never understand . |
| 21 | He turned back to the frying-pan , and she wondered how anyone could make her hackles rise with so few words . |
| 22 | It is difficult to see how anyone could notice the absence of white meat or fish with such an unending variety of tastes set before them . |
| 23 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 24 | Good call on Kelly although if he keeps playing like he is that would be a conservative estimate , how anyone could ask 1.4 for fat ‘ mars ’ mel is beyond belief though — he has n't kicked a ball in 2 years ! ! ! |
| 25 | Although he tried hard to do so , Richard could never see how anyone could live without things in working order . |
| 26 | I can not believe how anyone could say that . |
| 27 | Still , I wondered how anyone could find sitting for an artist boring . |
| 28 | I find that about 5 per cent of the students I teach are never able to overcome this difficulty ( even though they may have perfect hearing and in some cases a high level of linguistic and musical ability ) ; of the remainder , a few are especially gifted and can not understand how anyone could find the task difficult , and most others eventually learn after five or ten hours of practical classes . |
| 29 | Mum-of-two Jane , 29 , of Cleethorpes , said : ‘ I 'm baffled how anyone could have ignored his lorry for three days . ’ |
| 30 | Anyone seeing the second round of Ingle and Choi must have wondered how anyone could have decided that the Korean had won that round 5-2 . |