Example sentences of "was how she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 That was how she met my father in the early years of the war .
2 All Maggie Byrne talked about was how she hoped you would accept her .
3 They had laughed and talked as friends , and that was how she saw him .
4 And that was how she saw his face so clearly .
5 That was how she saw it and it added to her perturbation just as the sight of Tom leading hay over under the far wood gave her a quite unnecessary pang for she had never really loved him .
6 That was how she knew they had arrived .
7 That was how she put it .
8 Leith took a deep and controlling breath , then took the fight — for that was how she regarded it — into his camp .
9 And that was how she liked it .
10 Well , if that was how she wanted it
11 Buttoned up and locked in was how she described him to herself .
12 That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage .
13 That was how she lost her optic implant , how her platelocks got knocked out of shape .
14 That was how she found her … that night at Alassio . ’
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