Example sentences of "[to-vb] [Wh adv] i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was teaching , but one of the reason things worked out so well for me was that I did n't have to worry how I would eat or where I would sleep . |
| 2 | I have to simulate perception of situations not present to my senses ( that is , imagine them ) in order to discover how I would respond , and incipiently simulate other persons ( that is , empathize them ) in order to discover how they respond ; I have to explore how things look and feel from different viewpoints . |
| 3 | If you want to know how I could tell that from the seventh floor , you have to remember I 'm supposed to be a detective . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I reach for the dictionary when I want to know how I should use it . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you happen to know where I could find him now ? ’ |
| 7 | I 'd love to know where I could get a manual . |
| 8 | I need to know where I can find a woman who has recently returned to her family after having run away with a man called Resenence Jeopardy . ’ |
| 9 | I would like to work where I could help others |
| 10 | I had no idea when we might be going to Dili , so I was unable to time my campaign , to know when to bring it to a climax , to know when I could afford to cool things down , to be nice to her , for I did n't want to be thrown out of the house there and then , did I ? |
| 11 | I was now very weak from lack of food , and I began to wonder why I should struggle to stay alive , when I did not want to live . |
| 12 | I tried to imagine how I 'd have coped with a year 's solitary confinement . |
| 13 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 14 | As I hope to leave Britain within four weeks I would be immensely grateful if you could Fax me back with a reply as soon as is convenient , as I need the information to determine when I should book an air ticket . |
| 15 | as if he 'd said something he knew he should n't have , to see how I would react . |
| 16 | To see how I would handle a bit of academic incompetence ? |
| 17 | Were observant I knew to see how I would take it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The others in the group were keen to see how I 'd cope with my virgin flight . |
| 20 | I think she 'd guessed what I 'd really come about and was sort of savouring it , waiting to see how I 'd approach the subject . |
| 21 | This practical demonstration of working positively with conflict gives me confidence in your work and helps me to see how I can listen better to others . |
| 22 | Now I would be calling a solicitor to see how I could get it dissolved on the best possible terms . |
| 23 | Usually when I sit and stare at my blank sheets of A4 paper every month , I am trying to think how I can help you with your Duomatic machines . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've got to think how I can have my revenge on Hindley . |
| 25 | So I began to think how I could write a crime story that did not have a British setting . |
| 26 | I fail to see why I should stay and subject myself to any more of your murderous mood . ’ |
| 27 | I fail to see why I should concern myself with him any further . ’ |
| 28 | It 's not easy to say when I 'll stop entirely ; who knows , maybe three , four or five years ’ time ? |
| 29 | I would n't like to say where I might end up but I 'm happy at the moment . |