Example sentences of "how [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know how I dare confess it after that meal last night , but yes , ’ she admitted , privately thinking that in casual trousers , shirt and sweater Ven was certainly a man to make one 's pulses race . |
| 2 | ‘ Until I see the entire Argentine line-up , ’ he said , ‘ how can I possibly know how I shall mark him ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Until I see the entire Argentine line-up , ’ he said , ‘ how can I possibly know how I shall mark him ? ’ |
| 4 | I do not know how I shall manage this winter and dread it not for the weather which is rarely fierce , but for the loneliness . |
| 5 | She begins one sentence : ‘ Although I have no idea how I shall usefully fill the remainder of my life … ’ |
| 6 | I wonder if that 's how I shall finish up ? ’ |
| 7 | He thought : I believe that this is how I shall remember her when it is over , as over it will surely be sooner or later . |
| 8 | I do n't know how I shall manage to look at the screen . ’ |
| 9 | How I shall consider it . |
| 10 | I could not see , then , how I might press on with this bantering ; in fact , I decided it best to call a halt to the matter and , pretending to remember something I had urgently to attend to , excused myself , leaving my employer looking rather bemused . |
| 11 | For years I cut the grass — and living on water , grass grows at a prodigious and unnatural rate — and while doing so spent hundreds of man hours considering how I might stop it growing . |
| 12 | Since I was pipped at the post for the Periodical Publishers ' Association Columnist of the Year award by Maureen Lipman , star of stage and commercial , I thought I 'd better look up her column in She magazine to see how I might bring my stuff up to state-of-the-art standard . |
| 13 | I 've often reflected how I might have reacted in my early days as a Christian to such advice . |
| 14 | Can you suggest how I might persuade it to stay in one place ? |
| 15 | Not only did he tell me all the train times I needed to know ( without so much as a sigh ) , he also found out how I might get from Elstree station to the BBC studios . |
| 16 | Mark says , ‘ I 'd given my consent to AID but I could n't have told you how I might feel if Wendy did conceive . |
| 17 | I have no idea how I might have come by it . |
| 18 | Think how I might feel about you . |
| 19 | Before I pay a lot of money to try and get this problem sorted out , maybe you can tell me how I might be able to control this problem . |
| 20 | You know , hardly get a go-round in the in the Dictionary of Quotations but at least you got the person there which is right , but in actual fact , how I might have treated that and I might what might have grabbed me a little bit more would have been the story which I would be looking for , I 'd be looking for my journalist to turn that into and therefore you might as well try and do it for us , because journalists like , like count on your labour , as I |
| 21 | I don t know yet how I 'll manage it , but I 'll be here . |
| 22 | ‘ Though I do n't know how I 'll do that as she does n't have a telephone . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm now on Valium to get me through all this and feel desperate with worry about how I 'll manage alone . |
| 24 | ‘ I just do n't know how I 'll run in London until after I 've run Bath . |
| 25 | When Ruth dies I do n't know how I 'll emerge . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know how I 'll bring meself to serve her , ’ Lily grumbled . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I know how I 'll spend tomorrow . |
| 28 | I 'm not sure how I 'll react . ’ |
| 29 | What will happen to me , how I 'll develop , what I 'll be in five years ' time , in ten , in thirty . |
| 30 | I do n't know how I 'll ever let her go to school . |