Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] anyone could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ceilings were so low that one wonders how anyone could get at the carding machines to clean them . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know how anyone could have done this . |
| 3 | I do n't know how anyone could sit and listen to tapes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although he tried hard to do so , Richard could never see how anyone could live without things in working order . |
| 6 | I could not understand how anyone could act as this man did towards another human being suffering as I then was . |
| 7 | ‘ I never could understand how anyone could feel any enthusiasm for going ahead . |
| 8 | I still do n't understand how anyone could get turned on watching the X-rated frolicking of a very large pregnant woman and her pimply-butted lover . |
| 9 | ( 5 ) , on the other hand , seems to call into question the existence of any conditions which could have led to someone leaving Pa unattended : the speaker can not understand how anyone could have done such a thing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I can not believe how anyone could say that . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mum-of-two Jane , 29 , of Cleethorpes , said : ‘ I 'm baffled how anyone could have ignored his lorry for three days . ’ |
| 16 | Still , I wondered how anyone could find sitting for an artist boring . |
| 17 | Fowler looked at the tiny fields of black soil and wondered how anyone could scratch a living from them . |
| 18 | He turned back to the frying-pan , and she wondered how anyone could make her hackles rise with so few words . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |