Example sentences of "[modal v] she [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could she have been so blind ? |
| 2 | How , she wondered bemusedly , could she have been so trivial recently as to wish to upset these unexceptionable people . |
| 3 | How could she have been so blind ? she thought privately , as they began to head out to the lagoon . |
| 4 | How could she have been so gullible ? |
| 5 | How could she have been so stupid ? |
| 6 | How could she have been so pliable in her aunt 's hands ? |
| 7 | How could she have been so foolish as to imagine he had issued the invitation on a personal level ? |
| 8 | How could she have been so … so treacherous ? |
| 9 | How could she have been so thoughtless , so foolish , done something so unarguably dangerous ? |
| 10 | If it had been Jamie Baird who was waiting for her in the drawing-room , would she have been so angry ? |