Example sentences of "how [pron] [modal v] have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | I do not know how I can have fathered such children . |
| 3 | I started working out how I 'd have answered that Julius Caesar question . |
| 4 | Ducking her head , she busied herself arranging her skirts comfortably , fighting embarrassment and wondering how she could have forgotten all about their audience . |
| 5 | How you would have hated this , Gabriel , how you would have hungered for the sea and the sky , the hurly-burly and the heave-ho , the teamwork and the solitude , the unpredictability , the freedom , the danger of the waves . |
| 6 | Obviously we can not know the outcome of a new project , so let's consider how we might have proceeded 31 years ago . |
| 7 | How often do you dump a file on someone 's desk with a Post-it note on it saying ‘ do this ’ and get it back — okay — competently done but with no knowledge how it might have disrupted that person 's other work or even if they liked doing it enough to want to do more ? |
| 8 | ‘ But I can see how it might have rung all the wrong bells with young Folly here . |
| 9 | Now if that was totally inherent at the time , then I really fail how to see how it could have done eighty thousand miles , and I think that may be a point that 's put across at the same time . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , a broad understanding of the present Jovian interior , and how it could have got that way after its initial formation , now exists . |
| 11 | One wonders how he would have versified this set up . |
| 12 | I can well imagine how he must have looked that day , framed by the doorway of the vehicle , his dark , severe presence quite blotting out the effect of the gentle Hertfordshire scenery behind him . |
| 13 | Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck . |
| 14 | ( 5 ) , on the other hand , seems to call into question the existence of any conditions which could have led to someone leaving Pa unattended : the speaker can not understand how anyone could have done such a thing . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know how anyone could have done this . |