Example sentences of "[adj] [be] how [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is how they did it . |
| 2 | and then he 's , he 's going out and they 're coming like that direction and he 's looked round and he 's seen the soldier , doing it , he 's gone and this is how I did it and then he put his , like this and he stuck his hands up and as his done that he 's got shot through the body from the side , what 's |
| 3 | This is how he ended it : |
| 4 | You left a loving wife and a happy home to serve king and country and this was how they treated you . |
| 5 | I have no doubt whatever , that if they commissioned an outside and objective research organisation to ascertain from their members whether this was how they wanted their contributions spent , they would get a resounding ‘ no ’ . |
| 6 | This was how he remembered her , rather than as the cancer-pained rag doll he had nursed until her death . |
| 7 | I tried to explain to Irena that I did n't mind , that this was how I felt it should be — the real Central Europe — and anyway I preferred that kind of place to ordered museums and shining monuments . |
| 8 | This was how I interpreted his arguments . |
| 9 | I think he 's spoken to you about me , and I 'm sorry he considers me to be unreliable : happy-go-lucky was how he described me , I imagine . |
| 10 | That is how I saw them — and indeed how they were presented to me — when in fact , of course , they were just as vulnerable , just as sane and insane , just as full of gloss and blemishes as anyone else . |
| 11 | If KC repeated ‘ girl ’ as ‘ curn ’ because that is how he heard it , he would not know his response was wrong . |
| 12 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 13 | So that is how he did it : as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing — with ‘ wd ’ , and ‘ wl ’ , and ‘ sd ’ , and ‘ J ’ , and ‘ Ld M ’ , and ‘ ystdy ’ , and ‘ Abrdn ’ , and ‘ Mntrse ’ , and ‘ Ednbro ’ , or some such ? |
| 14 | At least that 's how they figured it and that 's how he explained it to me . |
| 15 | That 's how they saw it , sir . |
| 16 | That 's how they saw it . |
| 17 | That 's how they carried it out in the old days , in every quarry . |
| 18 | That 's how we saw it and that was the reason for the merger . ’ |
| 19 | And that 's how we got them . |
| 20 | That 's how we got it right and that 's how it finished up taking $180 million worldwide . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's how we got it . ’ |
| 22 | and that 's how we got it , the names you know |
| 23 | no Arthur that 's how we made it where I come from |
| 24 | That 's how we covered it at the N E C. |
| 25 | That 's how we built our company , and we did maximize from the hundred and thirty girls from three years ago . |
| 26 | well so that 's how it 's pleaded and that 's how we built it into the , these cases which I was referring to where an agreement is the object or the , the means or the consequence of an agreement , they enforce within five , the action is unlawful and of course there 's the final and fourth way in which it could be devoured this , because it , and again quoting the words from the cases , tends to have restricted affect on the market , I think your Lordship you can see how we pleaded it in paragraph two , two , three , it 's enforcing the consequence of the unlawful underline previous . |
| 27 | I 'm gon na pull out the minutes cos we did have a meeting , we had a meeting at which was present and that 's how we defined it |
| 28 | That 's how we did our first album which was on the Decca label called ‘ David Bowie' . |
| 29 | That 's how we picked it up . ’ |
| 30 | That 's how she met him at relatives party . |