Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is hard to know how we can ever tackle that , ’ one said . |
| 2 | I do n't know how I 'll ever let her go to school . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know how I can ever thank you . |
| 4 | That 's , my one , I do n't know how you 'd ever get over it , but that 's my one criticism of the thing is that sometimes when you walk in it 's the first thing that hits you and unless people are dancing it creates a cold atmosphere . |
| 5 | I did n't know how you could ever forgive me . |
| 6 | I do n't know how she can ever get on with anything . |
| 7 | As the words formed themselves in her mind , she did n't know how she could ever utter them . |
| 8 | I mean I did not need to stay on at school or get my B.A. at Strathclyde to know when not to F or C. Fuck-me shoes , I just handed them back to the saleslady with as much dignity as I could muster and says , thanks but no thanks , I do n't know when I 'd ever have the occasion to werr them . |
| 9 | And if he did n't do that she could n't possibly see how they would ever see eye to eye . |
| 10 | Now , I do n't understand how I could ever have thought I was fat . |
| 11 | We are due to review the morning service pattern at the church meeting on December 9th , although it is difficult to imagine how we could ever revert to a single service since already we have about 500 adults and children attending the two services ! |
| 12 | Her face was blank , and Meryl found herself wondering how she could ever have imagined that they had some kind of common bond , women in medicine , friendship . |
| 13 | Ruth found herself crouching on the floor , almost fainting ; wondering how she could ever have thought before that Fincara was casting spells . |
| 14 | In mounting anger she glared up at the taunting dark face , wondering how she could ever have thought his laughter attractive . |
| 15 | But there can not be an infinite series of causes stretching back endlessly ; for in that case , no matter how far back we were to look , we should never find a beginning of the whole process , and that in turn would make it quite impossible to understand how it could ever have got off the ground , let alone reached its present state . |
| 16 | It 's hard to see how they could ever get to know each other long enough for it to come to this . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , like everyone else we wonder how we can ever afford to replace the time expired capital equipment and infrastructure which was our legacy from the past 20 years of neglect . |
| 18 | And when you are in the troughs of those waves , you sometimes wonder when you will ever come up again . |
| 19 | ‘ She will entertain us every evening after supper , ’ said Goibniu and Floy nearly abandoned the entire thing there and then , because there had been something so meaningful in the way that Goibniu had said entertain that he wondered how they could ever have considered leaving her here alone . |
| 20 | When Liz Headleand woke on the first day of 1980 and found herself in bed with her husband , she remembered instantly the scene of the night before , and wondered how she could ever have been so upset by it . |
| 21 | Miranda fleetingly wondered how she could ever have thought that Adam had a withholding , guarded nature . |
| 22 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
| 23 | His eyes shone with mischief , and she wondered how she could ever have thought him boring . |
| 24 | I remembered that they had been there all along , and wondered how I could ever have forgotten them . |
| 25 | Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time . |
| 26 | Yes , but will the Minister say how he could ever expect to balance exports and imports when the Chancellor has forecast growth of only 1 per cent ; when we have rising unemployment , falling investment and companies going bankrupt ? |
| 27 | Theresa 's had to get a gas mask for little James but she ca n't imagine how she 'd ever put it on the poor child . |
| 28 | Sarah had told her that John had always argued with his father and defied him , and she wondered why he could ever have behaved like that with this gentle man . |
| 29 | I wondered when she would ever return to Dublin — I presume that 's why you 're here . " |