Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh adv] i [modal v] [verb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | I do n't know how I shall manage to look at the screen . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Until I see the entire Argentine line-up , ’ he said , ‘ how can I possibly know how I shall mark him ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Until I see the entire Argentine line-up , ’ he said , ‘ how can I possibly know how I shall mark him ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | I do n't know how I would get on without them now . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If I 'd had time to think I do n't know how I would have felt . |
| 14 | ‘ Though I do n't know how I 'll do that as she does n't have a telephone . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't know how I 'll do it , but I will . " |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know how I 'll bring meself to serve her , ’ Lily grumbled . |
| 17 | ‘ In fact , I do n't know how I 'll get on without you . ’ |
| 18 | When Ruth dies I do n't know how I 'll emerge . |
| 19 | ‘ I just do n't know how I 'll run in London until after I 've run Bath . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ The thief did that , ’ she told him , ‘ and I do n't quite know how I can repair it . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know how I can help you . |
| 23 | I do not know how I can have fathered such children . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I do not know how I could have coped without you and your friends here . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Rain , you must know how I could know . |
| 27 | Only I do n't know how I should set about finding a home , let alone one that she would be happy in . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't know how I 'd 've coped if it had n't been for my mum . |
| 29 | ‘ Yeah , I do n't know how I 'd cope as a solo artist because we 're a real support group to each other . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know how I 'd cope , wi'out you to help , lass . |