Example sentences of "how [pers pn] [vb mod] have " in BNC.

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1 I 've often reflected how I might have reacted in my early days as a Christian to such advice .
2 I have no idea how I might have come by it .
3 You know , hardly get a go-round in the in the Dictionary of Quotations but at least you got the person there which is right , but in actual fact , how I might have treated that and I might what might have grabbed me a little bit more would have been the story which I would be looking for , I 'd be looking for my journalist to turn that into and therefore you might as well try and do it for us , because journalists like , like count on your labour , as I
4 How I would have liked to play that , I thought , but chance would be a fine thing .
5 And how I would have complained !
6 If I 'd had time to think I do n't know how I would have felt .
7 I ca n't imagine how I would have survived without good friends who sustained me when I turned up weeping in the middle of the night .
8 Forgive the typed letter — bit impersonal , but I am trying to get to speedy grips with the little apple laptop powerbook 100 which I got when George was home — heaven alone knows how I would have done without it in the last few weeks .
9 I wondered , as I have often wondered , how I would have coped .
10 And if Thomas had been any older I do n't know quite how I would have explained it to him .
11 How I must have looked , the bloody great English lady , agawk .
12 Soaring out thought the airlock into the Fraxillian sunshine , I thought of how I must have looked to nay people below .
13 How I must have bored Lou .
14 Whenever he was out he set himself the task ‘ to study how and why until I discovered how I should have played the ball that beat me ’ .
15 Oh , how I should have liked to be you ! ’
16 If you had asked me to describe one of the Whistler 's victims that 's exactly how I should have seen her .
17 Afterwards , too late , I realized how I should have used my twenty-two seconds .
18 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 .
19 I do not know how I could have coped without you and your friends here . ’
20 ‘ 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 . ’
21 I raised my hand to my eyes wondering how I could have hit it so hard .
22 ‘ I do n't see how I could have . ’
23 I could n't understand it , could n't understand how I could have found myself so violently drawn to someone so … ’
24 Has anybody any idea how I could have unscribed without knowing it ?
25 I now ask myself how I could have been so daft .
26 ‘ You still have n't said how I can have two mothers , Nanny , ’ Artemis persisted , raising her voice and attracting the attention of a red-faced man at the main table .
27 ‘ I 've got to think how I can have my revenge on Hindley .
28 I do not know how I can have fathered such children .
29 I do n't know how I 'd 've coped if it had n't been for my mum .
30 Thank goodness I met her — I do n't know how I 'd have turned out without her . ’
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