Example sentences of "[vb infin] [Wh adv] i [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Until I see the entire Argentine line-up , ’ he said , ‘ how can I possibly know how I shall mark him ? ’
2 ‘ Until I see the entire Argentine line-up , ’ he said , ‘ how can I possibly know how I shall mark him ? ’
3 I do not know how I shall manage this winter and dread it not for the weather which is rarely fierce , but for the loneliness .
4 I do n't know how I shall manage to look at the screen . ’
5 I may well know how I would react if I could remain consistently aware of what I know in the abstract , yet yield to the opposite reaction , so that ‘ I see , and approve , the better : I follow the worse ’ ( Ovid 's Video meliora proboque , deteriora sequor ) .
6 I do n't know how I would get on without them now .
7 If I 'd had time to think I do n't know how I would have felt .
8 There are lots of other places I would like to visit — Vienna , for the music , would be high on my list but I do n't know how I would get there .
9 ‘ Though I do n't know how I 'll do that as she does n't have a telephone . ’
10 ‘ I just do n't know how I 'll run in London until after I 've run Bath .
11 When Ruth dies I do n't know how I 'll emerge .
12 ‘ I do n't know how I 'll bring meself to serve her , ’ Lily grumbled .
13 I do n't know how I 'll ever let her go to school .
14 I do n't know how I 'll do it , but I will . "
15 ‘ In fact , I do n't know how I 'll get on without you . ’
16 She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now
17 ‘ 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 .
18 ‘ The thief did that , ’ she told him , ‘ and I do n't quite know how I can repair it .
19 ‘ I do n't know how I can help you .
20 ‘ I do n't know how I can ever thank you .
21 I do not know how I can have fathered such children .
22 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 .
23 I do not know how I could have coped without you and your friends here . ’
24 Talei said later : ‘ I was thrilled to have found my real parents but I did n't know how I could possibly get out there . ’
25 ‘ Rain , you must know how I could know .
26 Only I do n't know how I should set about finding a home , let alone one that she would be happy in . ’
27 Thank goodness I met her — I do n't know how I 'd have turned out without her . ’
28 ‘ I do n't know how I 'd live without mine .
29 I do n't know how I 'd 've coped if it had n't been for my mum .
30 ‘ Yeah , I do n't know how I 'd cope as a solo artist because we 're a real support group to each other .
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