Example sentences of "[adv] could you have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please could you have more on Dalmations in your magazine . |
| 2 | Please could you have this checked by a Doctor and treat him with the appropriate shampoo before sending him back to school . |
| 3 | Social Worker : Then how could you have played it differently ? |
| 4 | ‘ How could you have come ? ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ How could you have known ? |
| 6 | How could you have wasted your life in such places ? |
| 7 | If you had written a full answer to each question , how could you have rearranged the word order to draw attention to the most important word or words ? |
| 8 | How could you have taken such a risk ? |
| 9 | How could you have known where it was ? ’ |
| 10 | A sentence such as ( 8 ) below could refer to the past ( How could you have expected me to know the answers to those questions which you asked me last week ? ) , the present ( Why are you asking me ? |
| 11 | Erm , but , how could you have improved it ? |
| 12 | ‘ How could you have guessed ? |
| 13 | How could you have ever doubted me after that ? ’ |
| 14 | How could you have finished up with an answer like sixteen it 's a bit like integration this where we 're working backwards . |
| 15 | Well one , how could you have bought that and two , how could you let her drone through it like that ? |
| 16 | How could you have seen it from here ? |
| 17 | Not all of them I accept and they 've been very helpful and when it comes to erm any other issue , I think basically , unfortunately sir , I think that we have strayed from the debate , we 've strayed onto ethnic issues er er and I think it 's a shame Mr , there was no need to introduce that and of course it was bound to bring a backlash , it was bound to introduce it it it it 's coloured it it 's made opaque the issues because you make it complicated , in actual fact er er I think that er being a governor of a school , I think that 's absolutely marvellous that some youngsters the future , I think the future will decide , I think there are kids out there will turn round one day and say how could you have done that ? |
| 18 | How could you have so many varieties of peanut butter . |
| 19 | Young Angus thought , You were a coward — no you were not — what else could you have done ? |