Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] could possibly [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't understand how I could possibly make the individual pine-needles knit ; it was like trying to carry grain in a net , or water in a cloth . |
| 2 | Talei said later : ‘ I was thrilled to have found my real parents but I did n't know how I could possibly get out there . ’ |
| 3 | They could not understand where I had come from , or how I could possibly survive . |
| 4 | ‘ Only then someone destroyed my confidence , my ability to trust , and , looking at you now , I ca n't for the life of me see how I could possibly have thought myself in love with someone so shallow , so completely self-centred . ’ |
| 5 | Her nanny , though , was once stopped in the street by someone demanding to know how she could possibly have a child by a black man . |
| 6 | Though how she could possibly have killed her husband , I ca n't think . ’ |
| 7 | I felt aggrieved at this because I had not worked with the sister during my placement , and could not imagine how she could possibly assess my work and capability . |
| 8 | Chairman , I ca n't imagine how you could possibly contemplate that . |
| 9 | He did not see how we could possibly do so under modern conditions . ' |
| 10 | " The judge asked how we could possibly do any more with the garden , and it 's true that the only way forward is by making small changes , which we like to do as it gives us so much enjoyment . " |
| 11 | And I just sort of wonder how we could possibly address some of that . |
| 12 | And wondered , in the same moment , how they could possibly hope to cheat the Sentry Spells . |
| 13 | She said that she had had people come to her office in tears , not knowing how they could possibly meet the cost of a funeral . |
| 14 | He had the added confusion of not knowing what he wanted to be and when an ambition did dawn , not knowing how he could possibly achieve it . |
| 15 | Comment was made this morning , er earlier on by Mr Timothy about the fact that the new settlement would be likely to generate a higher usage of transport than is the norm for Greater York , if I understood him correctly , erm , knowing the public transport system in Greater York , erm , I fail to see how he could possibly come to that conclusion , because bus services in the rural part of Greater York are very poor , clearly that 's partly because of the distribution of the rural population , and I fail to see that a settlement of the size being suggested would actually generate a level of usage of public transport any higher than that which ex already exists in the York in flat , and certainly no higher than exists within the exis existing urban area . |
| 16 | And there 's a very important and most people ca n't understand why we could possibly sell the flap until of course you realize that that 's taken off |
| 17 | Unfortunately it is exactly these thoughts and behaviours which make the panic attack worse , make us terrified of having another and make us begin to avoid any and every situation where it could possibly happen again . |