Example sentences of "how could [pers pn] [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reviewing national programmes , however , raises key and difficult questions for both donors ( why did they not co-operate more effectively ? ) and recipients ( how could they justify a range of prestige projects ? why are they more dependant on aid than ever ? ) |
| 2 | So how could we get a combination of all four ? |
| 3 | How could she love a man she did n't trust ? |
| 4 | I mean how could she have a son like Joe ? |
| 5 | ‘ How could you think a thing like that ? ’ |
| 6 | How could you love a child who , because of its strangeness and deformity , precluded you from having a child of your own because it might bear the same strangeness and deformity ? |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , I know that she deceived us as to who she is , but how could you believe a word Lord Blaine said about her , and she such a good hardworking girl ? |
| 8 | How could you direct a team when your staff practised half a dozen different scientific disciplines , used their own methods , were responsible for their own results , stood finally alone to justify and defend them in the only place where the quality of a forensic scientist 's work could properly be judged , the witness box of a court of law ? |
| 9 | They say my leg is dodgy but how could I referee a game like this one if that were the case . ’ |
| 10 | this is the this is it 's so easy , you think what 's an alternative to steel , oh it must be a metal , how could I make a bath out of copper or what could it be . |
| 11 | But how could I get a fire going fast enough to catch them ? |
| 12 | How could he have a son and heir ? ’ |
| 13 | How could he afford a place like this if he was playing dives like the Moebius Strip ? |