Example sentences of "[vb base] how it is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know how it is with these developments . |
| 2 | You know how it is with volunteers , Pascoe . |
| 3 | In principle he would like to do the movie , but you know how it is with agents . |
| 4 | You know how it is with dames . |
| 5 | " You know how it is with children ; she 's well one day , not so well the next . " |
| 6 | Oh , you know how it is with wizards . |
| 7 | You know how it is with the two |
| 8 | You know how it is on ferries — you get a bit disoriented , you never know if you 're on A deck or B deck , or which bit of the outside you 're getting to when you go through a door — the front , the stern , or the sides . |
| 9 | You know how it is between us . |
| 10 | If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended . |