Example sentences of "how shall i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How shall I sit ? ’ |
| 2 | … if there should be a war with France , how shall I send my descriptions of trees or Billy 's drawings , without falling into ignorant people 's hands , that will not take any notice of them or maybe , throw them away ? |
| 3 | Oh , Dorothy , my dearest , how shall I tell you ? |
| 4 | How shall I show my face ? |
| 5 | With one hand only , how shall I carry it safely ? |
| 6 | PAMELA : If you speak short to me how shall I bear it ? |
| 7 | How shall I answer to Christ for that , Clerk ? ’ |
| 8 | How shall I contain my joy ? |
| 9 | ‘ How shall I entertain you , Dr Neil ? ’ she enquired , and then regretted what she had said — it might bear the wrong meaning . |
| 10 | How shall I hold myself back ? |
| 11 | We could — how shall I put it ? — dispense with you quite happily . ’ |
| 12 | I have , how shall I put it , organised an elective affinity for you already . |
| 13 | ‘ In fact , it 's permanently in storage and it 's probably the most interesting thing he ever painted , but the subject matter makes it a little , how shall I put it , undesirable for public display . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ A — how shall I put it ? — sense of everything knowing its place , and keeping to it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Natural enough , I suppose , considering you have me black-listed as — how shall I put it ? — something of a predator . ’ |
| 16 | Now the G M B parliamentary group is a powerful and influential organization it 's well balanced between front-benchers and back-benchers , between men and women and between the youthful and , how shall I put it , the more experienced and as you would expect , its members are prominent in the attack on this weak , incompetent , and rudderless Conservative government . |
| 17 | Fortunately during the first few months of our marriage Bernard , how shall I put it , practised asceticism — I had no chance of getting pregnant , or very little , and after that he was converted to Marxism , and though we were at it all the time for years , he stood over me daily to make sure I ingested a contraceptive chemical . |
| 18 | ‘ Though if you should hear anything that might be — how shall I put this — um , useful I 'm sure your co-operation will be most favourably looked upon by the prison staff as a whole . |
| 19 | Although the idea was suggested by the Führer , it was , how shall I put it , more a flight of fancy than anything else ? |
| 20 | SUMMERCHILD : I — how shall I put it , then ? — I assume I meant … |
| 21 | Erm , so it is , how shall I put it , erm , unfortunate I think , in , in Shropshire 's view , that they did n't continue along the distribution on the previous basis . |
| 22 | Are there any sectors where there are for example triple S Is which are of er how shall I put it , strategic scale , that could influence er the location of a new settlement . |
| 23 | Well at the moment Mr is not in a position to how shall I put it , withdraw his authority 's commitment or preferred option , they have they have made that decision and short of him convening a memb a meeting of the highways committee between now and whenever , you wo there 's no way in which he would be in a position to withdraw that . |
| 24 | The only way in which er you could get how shall I put it , another view on the issue , would be to continue the debate here on whether or not the outer northern fulfils the functions and the needs which it pr claims to do compared with the inner routes between Knaresborough and Harrogate . |
| 25 | If it fooled you and you were — how shall I put it ? — intimately involved then it most certainly would have fooled him ! ’ |
| 26 | Before acting out as a late Father Christmas , I want to erm , come up with some general , how shall I put it , general considerations , this is why you have slides , you realise that slides are not actually for your benefit , they 're for my benefit , that I can remember where I am and what I 'm supposed to do . |
| 27 | These cover a large range of things , like the patient 's age , the patient 's sex , where the pain is , where it started , how quickly it came on , and so on and so forth , and essentially within the computer has a large table , and this table contains , how shall I put it , the frequency with which this particular symptom was associated with a particular disease over the last few hundred patients that have been seen at that hospital . |
| 28 | In particular , if one started to make such systems much more , how shall I put it , tailor the electronics to the purpose , then the cost could be quite low . |
| 29 | How shall I touch you ? |
| 30 | Forgive me but it seems to me strange that a lady such as you … how shall I say … should stay in a pensione . |