Example sentences of "[be] how [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The odd thing was , that did n't seem to be how it struck McWhirter . |
| 2 | You 're still Pascoe — and that 'll be how she found you phone book , nothing simpler . |
| 3 | er , he said because of er the programme being how he used , you see his funny long hair ! ! |
| 4 | That is how we came to the conclusion that they should be |
| 5 | This is how we felt . |
| 6 | At his side , Oisin said gently , ‘ It is how we lived at Tara . ’ |
| 7 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 8 | You walk down this sort of , you go through some woods and this is how we ended up where these geese |
| 9 | More often , we would come across them when we least expected it ; which is how we found the Syrians one hot June morning in 1976 . |
| 10 | Which is how we found out that one that we have a new member erm Sally who I 'll add on to my list and er send a newsletter to . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm looking at it all very positively , ’ she says , ‘ because auditing is n't for me anyway — and the partners knew that , which is how they chose who to make redundant . |
| 12 | Tottenham , it must be said , also had key players absent but what must be disturbing is how they failed to raise their game until a double substitution in the 70th minute . |
| 13 | They can no longer plead they thought they were digging for foxes , which are not protected , for that is how they escaped conviction in the past . |
| 14 | His original idea was to appoint four peers , which is how they acquired the nickname ‘ overlords ’ . |
| 15 | This is how they came to arrive in Durham in May , 1849 . |
| 16 | But it was such an unusual rise to fame , a situation that , apart from Elvis and The Beatles , there really was n't anyone else to make any reference to and say this is how they got through it all , because there had been nobody else of that size who had done it , and it 's hard to say how much of the rise to fame was attributed to DeFries . |
| 17 | Even more amazing is how they managed to arrive at just the right place , and at just the right day and hour required , when not even Charles himself knew where he and his men would be . |
| 18 | What we do n't know , of course , is how they organized their living accommodation , whether they ever got paid , they were given these sort of , £ tickets that were supposed to be honoured later on , but as far as we can make out , they hardly ever were , erm and how the people got on , we just have to use our imagination , but it is interesting that here for instance in these three , we actually apart from anything else have two women house-holders , who are obviously erm women who are carrying on business of some independence . |
| 19 | This is how they did it . |
| 20 | Which is how she came to find herself in such an embarrassing position . |
| 21 | After Heywood and Ann Hill left the house next door , Lady Diana Cooper moved in ; ‘ semi-detached but wholly attached ’ is how she described herself and the Berkeleys . |
| 22 | Now Joyce likes cats , but is alarmed by small animals which move fast and appear unexpectedly ( this is how she described the mouse which recently terrorised her ) . |
| 23 | I wrote to everybody going , in fact ev all over the world I should think all , everybody in this country because that is how I felt about it . |
| 24 | because because that is how I felt when he was actually saying that to me |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I had the easy choice of remaining silent , or the more difficult one of addressing the problem at some length in various publications ; which is how I resolved the practical difficulties . |
| 27 | This is how I achieved the elaborate sky in Figure 3 , using the dust of black No. 199 , cold grey 111 , No. 232 , blue violet , No. 137 , and phthalo blue dark , No. 152 . |
| 28 | This is how I met ‘ Pi ’ Arune . |
| 29 | This is how I came to know and subscribe to CD REVIEW whose cover-mounted CDs have been excellent . |
| 30 | Or is he saying , you know is he saying this is how I found religions to thrive , you know or |