Example sentences of "[Wh adv] anyone could " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to see how anyone could notice the absence of white meat or fish with such an unending variety of tastes set before them . |
| 2 | Still , I wondered how anyone could find sitting for an artist boring . |
| 3 | I could not understand how anyone could act as this man did towards another human being suffering as I then was . |
| 4 | ‘ I never could understand how anyone could feel any enthusiasm for going ahead . |
| 5 | Accordingly , leaders of the Jewish community were packed off to Vienna to receive first-hand information on organising mass emigration , though how anyone could think of forcing thousands of destitutes over the border — . |
| 6 | It 's hard to see how anyone could fail to have been convinced by the arguments put forward by the ‘ pro ’ lobby on Wednesday afternoon . |
| 7 | He was backed by Walton colleague Daphne Hall , who said she could not see how anyone could fail to support it , and felt it was better to have the Naze under a management scheme . |
| 8 | I still do n't understand how anyone could get turned on watching the X-rated frolicking of a very large pregnant woman and her pimply-butted lover . |
| 9 | Mum-of-two Jane , 29 , of Cleethorpes , said : ‘ I 'm baffled how anyone could have ignored his lorry for three days . ’ |
| 10 | Anyone seeing the second round of Ingle and Choi must have wondered how anyone could have decided that the Korean had won that round 5-2 . |
| 11 | How anyone could have expected you to get properly well there I can not imagine ! |
| 12 | The ceilings were so low that one wonders how anyone could get at the carding machines to clean them . |
| 13 | How anyone could thread bits of bread on hooks then snag the poor buggers in the crop and just reel them in I 'll never understand . |
| 14 | Do n't assume you 're being told the whole story this week just because you ca n't imagine how anyone could distort it . |
| 15 | Fowler looked at the tiny fields of black soil and wondered how anyone could scratch a living from them . |
| 16 | Although he tried hard to do so , Richard could never see how anyone could live without things in working order . |
| 17 | He turned back to the frying-pan , and she wondered how anyone could make her hackles rise with so few words . |
| 18 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 19 | ( 5 ) , on the other hand , seems to call into question the existence of any conditions which could have led to someone leaving Pa unattended : the speaker can not understand how anyone could have done such a thing . |
| 20 | Good call on Kelly although if he keeps playing like he is that would be a conservative estimate , how anyone could ask 1.4 for fat ‘ mars ’ mel is beyond belief though — he has n't kicked a ball in 2 years ! ! ! |
| 21 | I can not believe how anyone could say that . |
| 22 | Did anyone else see on teletext last night , that gobber Fergie was voted best manger in the world ? admittedly by some shitty magazine , but how anyone could think that he 's a good manager is beyond me . |
| 23 | I find that about 5 per cent of the students I teach are never able to overcome this difficulty ( even though they may have perfect hearing and in some cases a high level of linguistic and musical ability ) ; of the remainder , a few are especially gifted and can not understand how anyone could find the task difficult , and most others eventually learn after five or ten hours of practical classes . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know how anyone could have done this . |
| 25 | I do n't know how anyone could sit and listen to tapes . |
| 26 | It is probably all to the good that I did n't have this book with me , since the ready availability of a thick volume containing every registration number ever carried by every aeroplane currently registered or based in the United Kingdom could only have prompted further unanswerable questions as to why anyone could therefore need to write them down . |