Example sentences of "how [pron] [modal v] [verb] if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that within 10 minutes of our first conversation , Christopher asked me how I would feel if we closed down the Birmingham head office — his view was that the way to change the company 's culture was to close the headquarters and start again somewhere else . |
| 2 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
| 3 | I caught myself wondering how I would feel if I knew I was being transfused with the blood of someone of 85 : would it be strong enough ? |
| 4 | Two French UNRWA workers were released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the year and I had watched their press conference imagining how I would feel if it were John delivering the speech . |
| 5 | I may well know how I would react if I could remain consistently aware of what I know in the abstract , yet yield to the opposite reaction , so that ‘ I see , and approve , the better : I follow the worse ’ ( Ovid 's Video meliora proboque , deteriora sequor ) . |
| 6 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 7 | I said how I 'd feel if it was you and me , and we 'd quarrelled , and you 'd died … ’ |
| 8 | Susan wondered how she would feel if he did ; or if she touched him or let him know in some other way that she was there ? |
| 9 | She wondered how much longer it would be before Jack was brought in in this sort of state , and how she would feel if he was . |
| 10 | Liz was asked to imagine how she would respond if she was faced with the same problems again . |
| 11 | As an advocate you are paid to present your client 's case , not to offer a sincere opinion on how you would decide if you were the judge . |
| 12 | Talk with your husband or wife about how you would react if you found one of your children was using drugs . |
| 13 | Probably , subconsciously or , I dare say , consciously , you knew how you would react if you had a baby and that is why you never wanted one . |
| 14 | Imagine how you would fare if you were learning English as she is spoke in Oxford and met a Geordie . |
| 15 | ‘ Imagine how you would feel if you were on the receiving end of your criticism , ’ she suggests . |
| 16 | We all have the capacity to feel and how much more would an unborn child feel in its internal world , within its mother 's body ? just consider how you would feel if you were locked up in a room with someone in a state of fear , anxiety , anger or grief for nine months ! |
| 17 | Think how you would feel if you were asked : " I 'd like you to be slaves in the hold of a sailing ship . " |
| 18 | Ask yourself how you would respond if you were the ‘ victim ’ , and what form of compensation would be appropriate . |
| 19 | To counter this , we distributed thousands of copies of a special leaflet explaining how the inquiry worked and how you should prepare if you wanted to speak . |
| 20 | ‘ Just imagine how we 'll feel if we get Alzheimer 's . ’ |
| 21 | Sympathy involves ‘ feeling sorry ’ for the other person — or perhaps , it involves our imagining how we would feel if we were experiencing what is happening to him . |
| 22 | Pupils are encouraged to consider how they might feel if they were carrying the virus and how they might care for people with HIV/AIDS , especially those with unfamiliar lifestyles . |
| 23 | well for god 's sake , I mean I often wonder about people who make noise like this how they would feel if we did do the same , but I still say because we 've done our polystyrene insulation she ca n't hear us , it 's worked in the reverse ai n't it ? |
| 24 | Those who were not incontinent ( 3584 ) were asked what they thought they would do and how they would feel if they were incontinent . |
| 25 | Just waiting for the flash line to ring , not even knowing whether the kidnappers would have heard the radio show at all , or how they would react if they had , made Sam nauseous from stress . |
| 26 | She knew he would be in hospital a long time and wondered how they would manage if he ever came home . |
| 27 | Thoughts about how the spectacles would appear to me if I moved towards them leftwards must be related in the correct way to thoughts about how they would look if I moved above them to the right ; thoughts about their being artefacts must be related to thoughts about their not existing before a certain time or not coming into existence in the kitchen as the kettle boils . |
| 28 | If anybody in Milton Keynes can imagine how they 'd feel if it was their parents or grandparents . |
| 29 | ‘ Just think , ’ she said , smiling , ‘ how it would feel if you were head … of the family . ’ |
| 30 | For instance , a group of adolescents intending to look at how a family might drive one of its members to suicide , began their drama by working out the family 's relative positions round the graveside , concerning themselves with ‘ how it would look if it were a still photograph ’ . |