Example sentences of "how [pron] could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stole into the kitchen to find Sabina and beg some hot water in secret , before the others found her out ; Sabina giggled and her eyes flicked from side to side as Rosa described how she must have sleep-walked , how dangerous it was , how someone could have accidentally woken her and she might have fallen down , without being able to put out a hand to stop her fall , and died . |
| 2 | But I expect that you all want to know how I could do it — how I could have walked in and scooped up this yummy young man from the arms of his loving and lawful wife . |
| 3 | I do not know how I could have coped without you and your friends here . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , I think an investigation into the bogus account will be very revealing , I do n't see how I could have managed to go on robbing the customers from inside Swansea Jail , you should have stopped when you were ahead , Spencer . ’ |
| 5 | I raised my hand to my eyes wondering how I could have hit it so hard . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't see how I could have . ’ |
| 7 | I could n't understand it , could n't understand how I could have found myself so violently drawn to someone so … ’ |
| 8 | Has anybody any idea how I could have unscribed without knowing it ? |
| 9 | I now ask myself how I could have been so daft . |
| 10 | She was longing for a drink — some of her emergency ration of scotch — but she did not see how she could have one herself without also offering one to her visitor , something she had no intention of doing . |
| 11 | Then she said , ‘ I do n't see how she could have turned you down — knowing how you felt about her . ’ |
| 12 | This Scarlet had done , and now she wondered how she could have : maybe you became more squeamish the further away you grew from the experience of childbirth . |
| 13 | Folly wondered just how she could have been so naïve as to accept Luke 's explanation of the porter 's tale . |
| 14 | Except that that kiss and her response to it had taken her so much by surprise that , even in hindsight , she did not see how she could have forestalled it . |
| 15 | Yes , I have heard of her , ’ Belinda murmured , wondering painfully all over again how she could have let Tom capture her heart . |
| 16 | Smiles came from within , they were n't just a facial movement , and she stared at him assessingly as she wondered how she could have been such a fool . |
| 17 | Ducking her head , she busied herself arranging her skirts comfortably , fighting embarrassment and wondering how she could have forgotten all about their audience . |
| 18 | And as she worked beside Silas one question hammered to demand an answer — the question of how she could have lost control of her own emotions when she 'd known that all he needed was time to sort out his own feelings for Doreen . |
| 19 | Sitting weeping in the bathroom Agnes demanded of herself how she could have been so responsive to every whim of Magill 's mood and so dull but demanding and clumsy with Maxim … |
| 20 | Always analyse how you could have improved your approach and landing and why you did not manage to touch down nearer to the spot . |
| 21 | If you 've helped someone and you feel really good about it , let go all those negative feelings about how you could have done it better . |
| 22 | Think about how you could have foreseen them . |
| 23 | We learnt a few lessons on how we could have improved it but we felt very pleased with it as our first attempt . |
| 24 | After a short while the new way of moving begins to feel less strange and sometimes we can not understand how we could have moved so clumsily for so many years without realizing it . |
| 25 | HOW we could have done with some frogs ' legs among the dire fare served up for national consumption at Stamford Bridge yesterday . |
| 26 | As the car chugged down the M1 motorway I stopped cursing my bad luck and thought of how we could have made the first descent if only we had concentrated on the job in hand and not got the press involved or told so many people all about our daring endeavour . |
| 27 | I thought of you every day , of how we could have been together , and now we may start again . ’ |
| 28 | If we had n't had the shop , I do n't know how we could have managed . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And I do n't see how we could have just driven around in a circle . |
| 30 | In particular , I do not see how there could have been an appeal against such an assessment pursuant to paragraph 10(3) of Schedule 20 ; because such an appeal presupposes an assessment which , apart from the impugned error , would otherwise have been valid . |