Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [vb mod] [pron] [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the things they could have foreseen and prevented how could they possibly have foreseen this ? |
| 2 | How could we ever have believed otherwise ? |
| 3 | Now , how could we ever have forgotten it ? |
| 4 | How could she not have noticed what was going on under her nose ? |
| 5 | How could she not have known she was in love with him ? she wondered — it seemed impossible to believe that she had looked at him , touched him , made love with him , and not known until yesterday . |
| 6 | There were some risks to life and limb , however , over which she had no control ; how could she ever have guessed that she would outlive her son Robert by almost exactly 10 years ? |
| 7 | How could she ever have loved him ? |
| 8 | How could she ever have thought that his negligent self-involvement would be enough for her ? |
| 9 | How could she ever have doubted his motives ? |
| 10 | How she was to know , how could she ever have known ? |
| 11 | How could she possibly have foreseen a situation like this ? |
| 12 | How could she possibly have walked into the reception room at the hotel where Rune was holding his anniversary party and looked him in the face without betraying the fact that despite the passage of time and distance she still loved him ? |
| 13 | ‘ Oh ! ’ replied the flowers of the field , ‘ how could you not have loved Narcissus ? |
| 14 | How could you not have known ? |
| 15 | How could you not have known ? ’ |
| 16 | How could you really have witnessed that ? and when I say that finally I want to talk about terrier men because basically they 're the people who 've ruined your sport the terrier men are illegal , the terrier men are doing something that is definitely illegal in this country . |
| 17 | How could I not have known ? ’ |
| 18 | How could I ever have trusted her ? |
| 19 | How could I ever have thought La Tartine d'Albertine would make a good title ? he wrote . |
| 20 | How could I possibly have neglected to think about her when a few weeks ago I could think of little else , in lubricious detail ? |
| 21 | How could he possibly have done so ? |
| 22 | Now that his consciousness was changed , how could he possibly have allowed himself to speculate about its identity , postpone the means of putting his mind at rest and then , ostrich-like , avoid the issue altogether ? |
| 23 | But how can he ever have forgotten it ? |
| 24 | How can she ever have felt anything for him as a man ? ’ |
| 25 | It became , ‘ how can it possibly have come about in so short a period of time that so many women have become involved in politics ? ’ |
| 26 | They have they have t why should they even have to contemplate taking this type of industrial action ? |
| 27 | If there is indeed any foundation for these fears — which I do not at all suppose , for why should he not have contacted me if he was in such trouble ? — I shall settle the matter at once . |
| 28 | If God created primitive living things like plants for animals to eat ( do plants have theos rights ? ) , then why should He not have created more complex but still primitive beings which kill each other and may be eaten by man who has been set in dominion over all else ? |
| 29 | ‘ Why should he suddenly have materialized out of the blue ? ’ |
| 30 | But in that case , why could they not have called in the authorities and have the other fellows cleared out ? — only this would have made but a tame end to the story . |