Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [modal v] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I could afford it you know , but erm , there was n't so much money in those days I ca n't remember exactly how much we , we used to get in for coppers you know . |
| 2 | Here he is , at the outset , reporting from Brussels : ‘ You must not imagine that I live richly here , for my chief food is dry bread and some potatoes or chestnuts which people here sell on the street corner , but by having a somewhat better room and by occasionally taking a somewhat better meal in a restaurant whenever I can afford it , I shall get on very well … . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | How I shall consider it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Can you suggest how I might persuade it to stay in one place ? |
| 7 | I do n't know how I 'll do it , but I will . " |
| 8 | I don t know yet how I 'll manage it , but I 'll be here . |
| 9 | It is sometimes easier to proceed on the basis of : ‘ If I were doing the job this is how I would do it ’ , but this can be delusory even for analysts who have past experience as operators . |
| 10 | So you 're not writing an essay , what you 're doing is saying , well if this question came up , this is how I would answer it , then what I will do is give you feedback there and then on wh what else you can include and what else you ca n't . |
| 11 | Were observant I knew to see how I would take it . |
| 12 | I reach for the dictionary when I want to know how I should use it . |
| 13 | The problem I 've got is is er I know what I want to do and you told me what are doing , so from that I have a good picture of what how I should approach it . |
| 14 | Frank came up to me and started telling me how I should run it . |
| 15 | the was that the first one was was more or less science orientated an I I , I looked at it and thought how how I could how I could make it such that it was common |
| 16 | He said he had always known politics was a dirty game and he could not understand how I could endure it . |
| 17 | But this did not mean I was happy with it , or knew , precisely , when and how I could carry it out . |
| 18 | I wish I could suggest a meeting before I go , but it 's all happened so suddenly I just ca n't see how I could fit it in . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | God knows how much there still is down there ; I 've seen great stacks and bales of it still with the Royal Navy markings on it , and I 've dreamed up any number of ways of getting at it , but short of tunnelling in from the shed and taking the cordite out from the back , so that the bales looked untouched from the inside of the cellar , I do n't see how I could do it . |
| 21 | Now I would be calling a solicitor to see how I could get it dissolved on the best possible terms . |
| 22 | It was broken already so I glued it up , just had a look at it see how I could get it , its broken it again . |
| 23 | ‘ But would you care to tell me how I could turn it round , since the snow 's narrowed the width of the road to a single track ? |
| 24 | I had that in mind all week , but I could n't see how I could afford it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The thief did that , ’ she told him , ‘ and I do n't quite know how I can repair it . |
| 26 | Could you possibly tell me what this was , what caused it and how I can prevent it from happening again ? |
| 27 | Tell me how I can make it up to her . ’ |
| 28 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
| 29 | And if you , if you do n't do that , many people will pick it up and say , you know , ‘ There 's been a new thing , what the hell , I do n't see how I can use it , ’ into the wastepaper basket . |
| 30 | Even if I found one I do n't know how I 'd use it . |