Example sentences of "see [Wh adv] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I do n't see 'ow I can 'elp , ’ I mumbled innocently , waiting to hear her reply . |
| 2 | ‘ I know you 're right , but I just ca n't see how I 'd handle ‘ no ’ . ' |
| 3 | Ca n't you see how I 'd feel so degraded ? |
| 4 | But I ca n't see how I 'd actually be able to use that . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't see how I could leave Harry with Karen and come to London twice a week . ’ |
| 6 | This was the Luton Post Office murder , and although , in view of my long labours on the Meehan case , I had resolved not to take up any more cases , this was one that I did not see how I could refuse . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , I think an investigation into the bogus account will be very revealing , I do n't see how I could have managed to go on robbing the customers from inside Swansea Jail , you should have stopped when you were ahead , Spencer . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So I could not see how I could get away . |
| 10 | I 've been thinking that you ought to get away from here for a bit , but I do n't quite see how I could leave the hospital just now . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't see how I could have . ’ |
| 12 | Even if I did , I do n't see how I could silence her . |
| 13 | I had that in mind all week , but I could n't see how I could afford it . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't see how I can unless I manage to shift one way or the other , and I need both hands for that . |
| 16 | I 'll see how I can help you in the meantime . |
| 17 | I mean , I do n't see how I can be involved here politically , it 's not my place . |
| 18 | ‘ In any case , ’ he continued , ‘ I do not see how I can help you . |
| 19 | I know you 're having some sort of big spiritual crisis or something , but I do n't really see how I can help . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't see how I can possibly help you , ’ she had said firmly . |
| 21 | I do not see how I can answer the question as I could not see properly the document that the hon. Member was waving . |
| 22 | I ca n't see how I can bring anything fresh to it . ’ |
| 23 | Firstly because editors and journalists and so forth get an awful lot of them , and do n't have time to pore over them , and secondly because they pick them up , they sort of come in , they look at it and say , ‘ I ca n't see how I can use this . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | and there 's a two and half percent short fall that we 've got ta fight so I 'm gon na se see where I can get it from . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't see why I ca n't fiddle the season ticket . |
| 27 | I do n't see why I ca n't lead a normal life , ’ says brave Joanna . |
| 28 | ‘ You must see why I ca n't be awfully impressed . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't see why I ca n't continue my run for the seniors , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm taking nothing for granted . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't see why I ca n't be playing when the season starts in Scotland in September , ’ said Hastings , who needed a four hour operation . |