Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [vb mod] you [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.

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1 How might you explain that ?
2 ( iii ) How might you improve this capacity in the future ?
3 How 'd you do that ? ’ asked Carrie , pointing to Willie 's leg .
4 How 'd you do that ?
5 How could you suggest such a thing ?
6 How could you explain this human stuff to Globo , Arch Lord of the System of the Blabbenoids ?
7 If I said right you 've got a second chance this morning , how could you improve that piece of work in front of you now .
8 What things how could you improve that retention
9 ‘ You 've upset your father ; how could you do such a thing after all he 's done for you ? ’
10 How could you do such a thing ? ’ she demanded .
11 How could you do such a thing ? ’
12 How could you do such a thing ?
13 How could you do all this and not remember about it ?
14 How could you do that ?
15 Her eyes fixed widely on his , despair and unhappiness in their depths , she asked miserably , ‘ You said you wanted me ; how could you do that if you thought I was selfish and self-centred ? ’
16 How could you do that ?
17 How could you do that to me ?
18 I cried a lot and said : ‘ How could you do this ? ’ ' said Mr Koc .
19 I cried a lot and said : ‘ How could you do this ? ’ ' said Mr Koc .
20 How could you do this to the vicar ? ’ she demanded .
21 To Norman he would behave in contrary fashion , agreeing to certain things and then turning on him , affronted , with the remark , ‘ How could you do this to me ? ’ , together with accusations of selfishness .
22 How could you do this to me ?
23 How could you do this to me ?
24 I mean , how could you do this ?
25 " How could you bribe this man ? "
26 " Hari , how could you think such a thing ? " cried the Collector , shocked .
27 How could you think that , querida ?
28 How could you believe that of me , Ruth ?
29 And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong .
30 How could you say that yet ? "
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