Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] how we [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know how we can make that judgment until we have seen the texture of the decision that we are being asked to make . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As we have no continuous contemporary account of the persecution of Antiochus IV and of the Maccabean reaction , I do not see how we can decide whether any Psalm may be labelled as Maccabean . |
| 4 | I do not see how we can separate principle from practice , policy from implementation . |
| 5 | ‘ If ever we had to move , ’ said Edward to Joan one sunny afternoon , ‘ I ca n't think how we 'd begin to sort out this lot . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know how we 'll survive without him , I really do n't . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't know how we shall get them out , because they are exhausted and probably they will find it difficult to walk . |
| 8 | In the locker room the steel grilles are pasted with letters that say , Thanks for your kindness for making a tough time much easier to bear , and , If it was n't for all of you there at the hospital I do n't know how we would have survived . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know how we would have done . |
| 10 | If we had n't had the shop , I do n't know how we could have managed . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know how we will manage Tom and Oliver , Kit has her difficult days , you know , but we will do our best . |
| 12 | But I do n't know how we 'd go about that other than just writing to town councils . |
| 13 | The sort of applications which we might wish to make in the future would be for an example that an interim payment be made out of the money in court or that the money be transferred to the public trust office , we do n't know how we should proceed yet , but if we are at liberty to apply generally |
| 14 | I ca n't understand how we can have so much of the ball and end up losing . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't see how we would belong . |
| 16 | ‘ He 'll be 21 next month and I honestly ca n't see how we 'll hold onto him . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I really do n't see how we can accommodate your dear grandmother at such short notice … |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't see how we can carry on much longer , ’ Father admitted to me . |
| 19 | So I 'm not saying th th that there are n't these th the important other inputs , but , but what I am saying is that if you ask yourself where the kind of gene behaviour interface really exists is clearly in the human er in , in the human mind and it may be that the basic kind of parameters erm have , have been set for our emotions and I really do n't see how we can change those . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't see how we can avoid that , ’ said Robert , ‘ unless you use some kind of periscope . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't see how we can stop them , ’ said Floy , his eyes on the circling Tree Spirits and on the four Oaks who were now hauling on their claw-like roots , dragging Balor 's limbs outwards away from his body . |
| 22 | And I take this opportunity to say that , erm , I had , I moved this at budget revue , and my intention was to move erm , pretty much the wording that Mr moved at property , but I was unable to obtain that wording by the time of the meeting , so I put this forward , erm , knowing that it obviously was different words , but but with that same sense , that we do have to address some very real issues about County Farms and not to pussyfoot about it I think that er , any comparison between the County Farms and a commercial enterprise is a coincidence of terms , but I ca n't see how we can have forty million pounds worth of estate , as it 's valued on the free market , to be making two hundred and ninety-one thousand pounds a year out of it , and think that that is commercial . |
| 23 | ‘ And I do n't see how we could have just driven around in a circle . |
| 24 | If we ca n't blend Rocky in smoothly , I do n't see how we 'd manage to blend Gazza without pissing off a number of players . |
| 25 | I ca n't imagine how we would have reacted if our teacher had identified herself as a practising heterosexual and shared the secrets of her lifestyle . |
| 26 | I du n no how we could do it before Friday , not unless erm |
| 27 | Du n no how we could choose it though ? ? |