Example sentences of "how [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if it were up to me , I 'd just want to talk about music , about a certain passage of Mozart and how I would place the emphasis at certain points , and how I feel I 'm a good interpreter at the piano , but not particularly a good technician … ‘ |
| 2 | An eight year old , if I ruled the world , if I was in charge this is how I would organize things and then and I believe , what I believe in . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | How I would love to be proved wrong by any one of them but parents and boys deserve my honest opinion , however much they may hate me for it . |
| 5 | I knew exactly how I would do this and explained in some detail , finding Alec Reid equally fascinated . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Later I was questioned by a journalist as to how I would reply to those who spoke of lack of respect in the way Nigel 's body was handled during the twenty-four hours after his death . |
| 8 | Now I 'll show you how I would differentiate that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mum and Dad were worried about how I would cope , but Clare said everything would be all right . |
| 11 | And I 've already explained to you how I would arrange things . ’ |
| 12 | At the age of nine I wondered how I would handle my eventual initiation to the back row seating . |
| 13 | To see how I would handle a bit of academic incompetence ? |
| 14 | How I would wake weeping , and in the anguish of my heart exclaim upon sweet Calne in Wiltshire ! |
| 15 | ‘ I know just how I would set about it . |
| 16 | We began to discuss what should be done and how I would manage to support the children , and if , from time to time , I had the feeling that something was wrong , it was only in a distant , elusive way , as if I was listening to someone playing a piano on the other side of the road and hearing occasionally , but only occasionally , a wrong note . |
| 17 | I am thirteen years old , and if ten years of my youth were taken over by four plain walls and nothing to do , I know how I would feel . |
| 18 | I can remember feeling so raw , both physically and emotionally , that I was n't sure how I would feel with a group of new people . |
| 19 | I caught myself wondering how I would feel if I knew I was being transfused with the blood of someone of 85 : would it be strong enough ? |
| 20 | I remember that within 10 minutes of our first conversation , Christopher asked me how I would feel if we closed down the Birmingham head office — his view was that the way to change the company 's culture was to close the headquarters and start again somewhere else . |
| 21 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
| 22 | ‘ When I heard City had lost again on Saturday I thought we would not get him — I just know how I would feel . |
| 23 | Two French UNRWA workers were released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the year and I had watched their press conference imagining how I would feel if it were John delivering the speech . |
| 24 | What I can not do er is advise you on how I would score one sector against another in respect of that because again , er we have n't looked at that in sufficient detail . |
| 25 | My hand was shaking as I tried to imagine just how I would perform the robbery . |
| 26 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 27 | How I would classify them . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | as if he 'd said something he knew he should n't have , to see how I would react . |
| 30 | If that is the report to which he is referring , when asked how I would react to a Select Committee report I said that it would depend on what it said . |