Example sentences of "can [pers pn] ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Why , " he thought , " in this country it is uncommon to see even one elephant ; how can I ever expect to find a hundred ? " |
| 2 | How can I ever make that thing stay upright ? you ask yourself . |
| 3 | How can I ever drop my eyes as deep |
| 4 | How can I ever stop loving him when he 's always here ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ How can I ever treat her quite the same again' , he said . |
| 6 | How can I ever leave this behind ? she wondered . |
| 7 | ‘ Nor can I ever lose sight of that flood of tears which then poured from his eyes , when reluctant nature was constrained to resign a beloved child to the cold arms of death . |
| 8 | Can I ever forgive you that ? ’ |
| 9 | How can I ever become a good painter when I know so little geometry and mathematics ? |
| 10 | How can I ever escape from it ? ’ |
| 11 | If this is true , then what else can I ever have that is more precious than the possession of his Holy Spirit within me ? |
| 12 | In the method described previously , the analyst tries to select sentences ( or passages of some other size ) whose meaning is fairly ‘ neutral ’ from the emotional point of view , and will tend to avoid material such as ‘ Why do n't you leave me alone ? ’ or ‘ How can I ever thank you enough ? ’ because the lexical meaning of the words used already makes the speaker 's attitude pretty clear , whereas sentences such as ‘ She 's going to buy it tomorrow ’ or ‘ The paper has fallen under the table ’ are less likely to prejudice the listener . |
| 13 | I ca n't ever remember being more than healthily hungry , nor can I ever remember coming home from school or play when my mother was not there to welcome us . |
| 14 | Can I ever trust him again ? |
| 15 | can you ever control the service charge component to make it level with inflation as opposed to the management charges ? |
| 16 | Can you ever remember your husband asking you to go out and leave him alone with anyone ? ’ |
| 17 | Can you ever remember all the second-by-second nuances , points of view , movements in a single evening , let alone a generation ? |
| 18 | Cath , can you ever remember whether we 've had a photograph taken at the recruitment fair ? |
| 19 | Er can you ever remember any what might be called , failed harvests or d d difficult harvests ? |
| 20 | ‘ How can you ever forgive me for I shall never forgive myself . ’ |
| 21 | when you 've got a budget for an oncoming year , assuming you and I are here together in November ninety three and we 're preparing a budget up till November ninety four , can you ever have precise figures which will be accurate to the last pound ? |
| 22 | How can she ever have felt anything for him as a man ? ’ |
| 23 | How can we ever speak again ? |
| 24 | How can we ever hope to make the sport clean when we treat offenders so leniently ? |
| 25 | If we allow multi-media to remain so shapeless and subjective , how can we ever hope to understand its implications for the information industry and the generations of information users who may ( or may not ) benefit from it ? |
| 26 | How can we ever look up to Jane Fonda again ? |
| 27 | Only by reducing them to sharply defined and manageable areas , it is felt , can we ever begin to understand their systematic nature and operate their rules . |
| 28 | ‘ If we can not win now , when everything is against the Government , when can we ever win again ? ’ |
| 29 | Mr Kinnock has been If we can not win now , when everything is against the Government , when can we ever win again ? consistently less popular than his party . |
| 30 | Can we ever know one another well ? |