Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] could ever [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know how you could ever forgive me . |
| 2 | As the words formed themselves in her mind , she did n't know how she could ever utter them . |
| 3 | Now , I do n't understand how I could ever have thought I was fat . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ruth found herself crouching on the floor , almost fainting ; wondering how she could ever have thought before that Fincara was casting spells . |
| 7 | In mounting anger she glared up at the taunting dark face , wondering how she could ever have thought his laughter attractive . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's hard to see how they could ever get to know each other long enough for it to come to this . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Miranda fleetingly wondered how she could ever have thought that Adam had a withholding , guarded nature . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His eyes shone with mischief , and she wondered how she could ever have thought him boring . |
| 15 | I remembered that they had been there all along , and wondered how I could ever have forgotten them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |