Example sentences of "that [is] how [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that is how one says it ? ’ |
| 2 | That is how they make their profit . |
| 3 | I know your , but er , they ought to and therefore , you know , that is how we trace it . |
| 4 | But that is how we see you British , still . |
| 5 | If that is how you wish it — ’ |
| 6 | That is how I arrange it . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In my own garden the twisted hazel , Corylus avellana ‘ Contorta ’ , is underplanted with primroses , bluebells and wood anemones , for that is how I remember them growing , as they still do , along the banks of the rive Greta . |
| 9 | ‘ By all I know of Jerome , ’ said Hugh , ‘ that is how I read it . ’ |
| 10 | That is how I understand it . |
| 11 | That is how I see her now , turning to look over a white shoulder , with the placid expanse of lake about her . |
| 12 | If KC repeated ‘ girl ’ as ‘ curn ’ because that is how he heard it , he would not know his response was wrong . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | ‘ That is how he sees you . |
| 15 | It 's hard to imagine him manoeuvring hefty cargoes through Le Sentier 's teeming streets , but that is how he makes his living . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Got to try and come up with the rest of them that 's how they done it , a couple of days after somebody re-enact that again . |
| 18 | cos have cheese on the you know er , on the cool counter you know that 's how they sell it |
| 19 | That 's how they make their money , though , is n't it ? |
| 20 | At least that 's how they figured it and that 's how he explained it to me . |
| 21 | Well that 's how they train them , they train them in er what they call public order work , in the case of chasing people and all that , they also have tracking and all kinds of things , okay ? |
| 22 | That 's how they saw it , sir . |
| 23 | That 's how they saw it . |
| 24 | That 's how they carried it out in the old days , in every quarry . |
| 25 | I 'll only cut it up smaller that 's how they like it . |
| 26 | That 's how they screw us , these men in authority . |
| 27 | That 's how they know they have it . |
| 28 | That 's how they do them , right ? |
| 29 | So that 's how they do it then ? |
| 30 | it is a waste of time he , he said its a big con , so that 's how they work it now |