Example sentences of "be [Wh adv] i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A mother-in-law ( that 's how I thought about her already ) , a French mother-in-law who 's been deserted by an Englishman now being introduced by her daughter to the Englishman she wants to marry ? |
| 3 | So it 's like , ‘ Who is this guy ? ’ and that 's how I got into Van Halen . |
| 4 | So that 's how I got into it , really . |
| 5 | That 's how I got into it that 's for sure . |
| 6 | Some adolescents seemed concerned about a lack of knowledge or deficiency in Creole on their own part : For my English oral , last year , I had to read a Patois poem , so I aksed my mum to read it for me , and that 's how I got to , you know , sort of pick it up just for that poem … kept letting her read it over and over again till I get the sound . |
| 7 | That 's how I came to be stuck and sweating , 60 ′ above the boulders ; feet flapping , nose snorting , musty sandstone , fingernails smearing lichen and a jammed knot placed blindly in the dark , keeping it all together . |
| 8 | That 's how I felt about it . |
| 9 | And that 's how I felt about |
| 10 | And I were I was doing the job there th that 's how I started on working on shore . |
| 11 | That 's when I thought of the mud wagon , the light spring coach Mr. Mendez and I had taken to Delgado 's that day . |
| 12 | Well that 's when I said to him , I said have you any outside help , and he said well really , no |
| 13 | At the time ( I know it was seven years ago because that 's when I left for Edmonton where I met Michael ) I would always make sure I read the foreign page to see what was happening in Danu . |
| 14 | And er we left and we never went back there , that 's when I went to the private school . |
| 15 | That 's when I went to Mona 's room and left a note . ’ |
| 16 | And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that 's when I went to Liverpool , I did a play with , I did Alfie with Alan who just directed the Commitments and er we went to a b and that really got me fired up to start again , and I sort of did some theatre stuff through the bits and pieces through the eighties until Love Hurts came . |
| 17 | The moment I heard there were rumours that the PLO is willing to be more moderate , that 's when I went on the first plane and went to Tunis . |
| 18 | That 's when I hit on the answer . |
| 19 | And that 's when I waved at the Guards major Nogin and set in motion the arrest of Ralph Pike . |
| 20 | ‘ And that 's when I flew to Rome with Ed Danson , a fellow project manager . |
| 21 | ‘ This is why I had to be so careful , Meredith , ’ he said tightly . |
| 22 | That is why I sent for you , to be truthful . |
| 23 | That is why I came to you for advice . ’ |
| 24 | That is why I began with the hill towns : for they wear so much , so conspicuously , on their face . |
| 25 | Erm which is why I went for the downstairs cos I had a choice of either . |
| 26 | I have to say that I know for definite that the force at that time only possessed two shields , er we kept one shield in the South of the county at and one shield North of the county and and hence that is why I went to the headquarters in the morning . |
| 27 | which is why I said to him that yeah he can have a new computer , he can get what he , you know what he wants as long as I get my bedroom done |
| 28 | That is why I stooped to traffic with the Man-greedy Frost Giantess , and why I intrigued with her to drive out the Gruagach and why I helped the Gruagach to vanquish the High King and take Tara . ’ |
| 29 | That is why I objected to the assurance with which the hon. Member for Ryedale was arguing that this would happen . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I thought I 'd go and sell ice-cream outside the Stock Exchange , which is why I dressed like this . ’ |