Example sentences of "how [pron] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to see how everyone was suffering . |
| 2 | Meeting Jenny the following day at least gave me something else to hang on to , but I still had n't the faintest idea how everyone was going to react . |
| 3 | I thote you and Cissie , and everywun there , wuld like to know how I wus geting on . |
| 4 | Yet this is how crying in infants is sometimes interpreted : the child is being naughty ; naughtiness is punished ; smacking is how I was punished as a child ; so I smack my baby . |
| 5 | ‘ The last few weeks have been difficult because I did n't know how I was fixed . |
| 6 | ‘ The last few weeks have been difficult because I did n't know how I was fixed . |
| 7 | I wrote to my mother who lived up at Manzanita with her sister , Mrs. R. V. Hungerford , telling her how I was leaving my position and would write again when I had found some place I liked . |
| 8 | And that was how I was trained and that way I was trained seven and a half years ago , it has now all changed again . |
| 9 | To most people , a receptionist is an obstacle to be negotiated , and that was unfortunately how I was made to feel for much of the time . |
| 10 | That 's how I was taught you see and so in spite of the long lapse of years there 's still a tremendous amount up there because it was , it was properly learnt , you learn something thoroughly |
| 11 | No , I , I wo n't tell you how I was taught to do it because I was taught to do it very differently . |
| 12 | Nobody went on about my injury — just asked me how I was getting along in Italy . ’ |
| 13 | After asking how I was getting on he told me something of the worries of a Party leader in days when there are no deep political convictions to divide men of good will . |
| 14 | ‘ I managed to tip half a pint of crème brûlée over the manager one evening when he came in to see how I was getting on . |
| 15 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 16 | The Arts : How I was exposed in 3½ hours |
| 17 | That 's how I was brought up — to value my body . ’ |
| 18 | How I was brought up , but a no one 's ever called me pompous I mean , the way walks around as if he owns the place , I think it 's really funny ! |
| 19 | So that 's how I was heading north-west towards Highbury and Lucy instead of north and east to Zaria . |
| 20 | He sighed after a while and asked how I was feeling . |
| 21 | I found comfort — although at times I had to struggle to do so — from knowing that God is the Father , par excellence , and he therefore knew exactly how I was feeling . |
| 22 | White blurs passed around us and coloured pills stuck in my throat but , from time to time , I saw a man in a room on my own and he always asked me how I was feeling . |
| 23 | The calculations I must have performed to decide where the ball was going to be , and to hit it , are staggering , but I managed ( so long as I did not stop to ask how I was doing it ) . |
| 24 | I had already sent him a book , examples of my work , a letter about why and how I was doing the book , all for the sake of just one short interview . |
| 25 | Only because of that , and what they said in that totally shocked me , because erm , I , he had n't given me any feedback about how I was doing . |
| 26 | But your fresh deputy should be the one who 's giving you the feedback , I mean , all the time I was on provisions in my last department , and nobody ever told me how I was doing . |
| 27 | No details were discussed : ‘ I was n't there more than a couple of minutes , but I did n't feel rushed and I am not quite sure how I was shown the door . |
| 28 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 29 | I still did n't think I would die , but I had no idea how I was going to live . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't know how I was going to cope . ’ |