Example sentences of "to imagine [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 2 | When other people are taking the mickey out of someone else , try to imagine how they feel about it . |
| 3 | Mr Kennedy says : ‘ If that 's how they treat a witness , I dread to imagine how they treat a suspect . ’ |
| 4 | Given the variety of motif etc. in the Broad Street , Halstock , Bacchus and Leopard and Bishopstone pavements , it is difficult to imagine how they could have grown out of the Chedworth — Tockington sequence . |
| 5 | We are due to review the morning service pattern at the church meeting on December 9th , although it is difficult to imagine how we could ever revert to a single service since already we have about 500 adults and children attending the two services ! |
| 6 | Short of actually achieving this , it is hard to imagine how we would then perceive social relations , and what sort of responses would seem appropriate to the actions of others . |
| 7 | As he says , quoting from Freud 's Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis , If we started life as " a chaos , a cauldron full of seething excitations " , with " no organization " and given to satisfying our wishes by hallucination , it is hard to imagine how we could begin to experience the external world in such a way as to learn adaptation from it . |
| 8 | We can not begin to imagine how we could force our readers to return their newspapers , or how the collections could be organized nationwide . " |
| 9 | He began to imagine how he would run the wires under the carpet , and had to stop before it became too real . |
| 10 | At least the scientists can agree about the age of his body and others can draw on the evidence to imagine how he lived . |
| 11 | Liz was asked to imagine how she would respond if she was faced with the same problems again . |
| 12 | It was simply impossible to imagine how she would depart . |
| 13 | He tried to imagine how she might be thinking : the sudden joy that the impossible had happened , that a man had returned from the dead . |
| 14 | She tried to imagine how she would look when she was old enough to wear a wig , like her mother and the great ladies of the court who surrounded Queen Ankhsenpaamun , though the queen was not much older than she was herself . |
| 15 | I tried to imagine how I 'd have coped with a year 's solitary confinement . |
| 16 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 17 | It is best not to build it at all but to imagine how it would work . |
| 18 | Can we , in the West , begin to imagine how it must be to have your farm taken over by the state . |
| 19 | As competent users of English , it is not easy for us , when looking at a piece of discourse which we understand , to imagine how it appears to the language learner . |
| 20 | Well there 's been speculation about that , but no nobody can actually tell us how it began but it 's it 's easy enough to imagine how it began , I think . |
| 21 | It was easy enough to imagine how it had gone . |
| 22 | Erm , it it , it makes it very , very difficult to imagine how you 'll recover erm , but in the end it 's a personal decision to , to try to achieve self respect , to care for yourself better , to adopt good habits of nutrition and exercise , not dieting , cos diets are the biggest con trick of all and certainly , to rid your life of people who do n't respect and accept you the way you are . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's certainly hard to imagine why you should invent such an elaborate story . ’ |
| 24 | And I ca n't even begin to imagine why you 're here . ’ |
| 25 | I tried to imagine why he lived such a quiet and lonely life in this far-off place . |
| 26 | She had not been able to imagine why she should be suffering those anxiety attacks for so long . |
| 27 | A good tip to avoid the terrors of the night is simply to imagine where you are in the daylight , and by picturing the pleasant surroundings of your tent in brilliant sunshine , the dark night will hold no satanic secrets . |
| 28 | The sweeping contours of the hill at that point have always reminded me of a huge wave about to break , and it 's an uncomfortable thought trying to imagine where you might stop for lunch , and what would happen if you dropped your orange . |