Example sentences of "[Wh adv] could [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anybody has seen her or knows her whereabouts could you please contact B B C Radio York immediately all right ? |
| 2 | How could they both stand there smiling when Bill might be dead ? |
| 3 | My Lord Mayor , how could they not throw out their socialist ideology when so many Labour Councillors , Labour Councillors , were buying , and some in this very Chamber , were indeed buying their own Council house . |
| 4 | Given their straitened horizons , and their own abnormality , how could they really think in terms of something as being significantly abnormal ? |
| 5 | Of all the things they could have foreseen and prevented how could they possibly have foreseen this ? |
| 6 | How could they possibly assess the value of the trinkets being imported — suitcases and crates crammed with carpets , pictures , furniture , diamonds , strings of pearls , ruby rings , emerald earring , tiaras , silver money transfers -all most every rich person in the country suddenly want this of her money telexed to accounts in Switzerland , Paris London , New York , the Cayman Islands . |
| 7 | How could they before pay rents then ? |
| 8 | How could they ever forget ? |
| 9 | For example , if the notion of human rights is a meaningful one ( itself in hot dispute ) , and if it extends to all humans , including the severely and terminally brain-damaged , then how could we logically fail to extend the notion to at least some animals ? |
| 10 | Assuming ( as we all do ) that our experience is somehow intrinsically different from the bat 's , how could we even conceive of what the bat 's experience is really like — that is to say , what it is like for the bat ? |
| 11 | How could we even fight them ? |
| 12 | The first approach replied that this was all very well but then how could we ever assess the importance of one variable against another in the overall changes ? |
| 13 | Now , how could we ever have forgotten it ? |
| 14 | How could we ever have believed otherwise ? |
| 15 | I agree Gazza 's a brilliant player , who would be an asset for any club , but I really do n't think we should be getting too excited about this — how could we possibly afford him ? |
| 16 | How could we possibly challenge such assertions ? |
| 17 | How could we possibly overlook the Schleyer Halle , the Festhalle , the Rothenbaum and the Rochusclub ? |
| 18 | How could one not admire a woman so clear as to her needs that she did not care whose flesh she carved her way through , who did not care whose sleep she shattered in the small hours of the dawn ? |
| 19 | How could one not smile around someone as irrepressible as her gorgeous red-headed cousin ? |
| 20 | After the wounds he 'd seen in his time , how could one little splinter have such an effect ? |
| 21 | Yet how could one possibly become acquainted with his wife , Marie , a woman who had been on the stage and who , it was known , had lived with him in adultery while waiting to be divorced ! |
| 22 | How could one so shy and so timid rule Ireland after Dierdriu was gone ? |
| 23 | ‘ How could anyone not want to go for a sail on a day like this ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ How could anyone not like it ? |
| 25 | How could anyone ever manage to chat up Carol ? |
| 26 | ‘ How could anyone possibly hate such adorable little creatures ? ’ she said indignantly . |
| 27 | How could anyone seriously want to go back to wind and rain and the grey walls and streets of north Britain forever ? |
| 28 | How could she even think such things about a man whose reputation as a womaniser rivalled Casanova 's ? |
| 29 | How could she just go home when she needed the money ? |
| 30 | She was not proud to have been the cause of splitting her family up ; nor could she forget how her father 's love had turned to disgust ; and how could she easily reveal the shame which she had brought down on the Wards ? |