Example sentences of "could [pron] ever " in BNC.

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1 How could I ever have thought La Tartine d'Albertine would make a good title ? he wrote .
2 How could I ever work for this man again anyway ?
3 How could I ever forget ! ’ said Mark , holding a hand over his eyes .
4 Indeed , how could I ever go back to Bristol without having done my prep ?
5 How could I ever listen to office gossip
6 ‘ My dear Mildred , how could I ever forget you .
7 ‘ How could I ever forget ?
8 In no way could I ever have imagined that this poem could have done anything but rouse the Church to action .
9 As the landlady 's footsteps died away , Miss Malcolm ( how could I ever , did I ever , think of her as ‘ Miss Malcolm ? ’ ) stirred .
10 ‘ How could I ever forget ?
11 How could I ever have trusted her ?
12 Could I ever start a new life after this ?
13 Could I ever again trust the being I had turned into a sort of god ?
14 It 's so utterly impossible — even if I could overcome the physical thing , how could I ever look in any way but down on him ?
15 The thought still brought a pain : for how could I ever truly forget you , my love ?
16 How could I ever question what I 'm doing ? ’
17 ‘ How could I ever love that stupid girl ? ’ he asked .
18 ‘ After all , how could I ever possess a brother who was remotely talented ?
19 How could I ever explain to them and how could I tell Jennifer ?
20 No way could I ever vote for a person who approved of cruelty to animals and I would urge anyone who cares anything about animals to cast their vote elsewhere .
21 I says c how could I ever forget it , I said it must have been near halloween , one halloween , for I remember her coming to the party and that 's how her and Richard met .
22 With such numbers , and so many set speeches , and with most of the participants having done no work beforehand , could you ever get clarity into a report produced by a mass debate ?
23 Could you ever imagine that happening to one of you ?
24 Could you ever see me as a full-time mother ? ’
25 But could you ever be sure of making it trite and meaningless enough ?
26 And who could you ever get to play Satan so wicked ?
27 How could you ever believe that ? ’
28 ‘ How could you ever accuse me of something so totally … impossible ! ’
29 A multi-millionairess with a fortune estimated at more than £10 million , a property tycoon in Australia where she was spending a fortune renovating her latest acquisition , a mammoth Victorian town house in the Melbourne suburbs , a singer poised to come of age with a backing band of her own and a world tour — the hologramic face of high technology in Japan , how could she ever again have been expected to have slipped into oily dungarees to tinker with the engine of a Land Rover ?
30 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 ?
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