Example sentences of "[verb] how you [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dolly , healthily peckish , said , ‘ I do n't know how you can be so good to me , nursin' me ankle , givin' me your bed , and feedin' me as well , and me a girl that 's done pinchin' and nickin' . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't know how you can be so tired when you only get up at half past ten in the morning ! |
| 3 | There are so many cases of genuine , unbearable hardship [ he wrote ] that unless your protégée can produce some family connection here , I do n't see how you 'll be able to swing it . |
| 4 | I ca n't see how you could be conscious , without it matters , but it 's interesting you know the hearing tests we were talking about . |
| 5 | Some of you may have put this book down feeling slightly faint , wondering how you can be so stupid while the rest of the world is so clever . |
| 6 | I know how you must be feeling — ’ |
| 7 | It will be a time for you to use all the imagination of which you are capable , to try to think how you would be feeling if you were in her shoes , and to handle her fragile emotions very gently . |
| 8 | " I ca n't imagine how you can be so ungrateful , child , " she said between coughing fits . |