Example sentences of "how [pron] was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said they 'll want to know , where they was , how they was they 'll want to know the value of each stuff , what was in it , everything ! |
| 2 | You can both go to hell for all I care , ’ Sarella wondered how it was they 'd managed to get off the subject of the telephone call so quickly . |
| 3 | One Afro-Caribbean mother in my study , who was living on benefits with her partner , described how it was her grandmother who bought her daughter 's shoes , while her mother |
| 4 | ‘ He was trying to explain to us how he feels about negotiations , how it was his feeling that in any country , even if there is war , there is time for negotiations . |
| 5 | Pavel Mukhortov , the Russian reporter who claims to have had a close encounter with extra-terrestrials He ( Nelson Mandela ) was trying to explain to us how he feels about negotiations , how it was his feeling that in any country , even if there is war , there is time for negotiations . |
| 6 | I remember Geoff telling me this , tears streaming down his face , marvelling at how it was his children who had the strength to carry on , and that it was they who had this practical , yet profound way of reaching to the heart of the matter . |
| 7 | He recounted how it was his standard lunch time practice in the 60 's to rush to places such as Ifton Colliery , St. Martin 's , near Oswestry to photograph their railways and to chat to some of the characters who operated them . |
| 8 | And she had wondered how it was she was speaking of him at all . |
| 9 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
| 10 | Just to satisfy herself that he understood how it was he was able to build out of the vertical , the teacher asked if he could make a bent tower with wooden building blocks . |
| 11 | That 's how it was It had fallen apart with er without . |
| 12 | Well , I do nt understand how he was something like joint 8th favourite about 2 months ago … now favourite . |
| 13 | How what was her speed |