Example sentences of "how thing be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if a subliminal message had passed between them ; as if she had said aloud , ‘ Look , I understand how things are between you and Alain Gebrec , but Iris does n't seem to and I do n't want her upset , ’ and as if he had responded , ‘ Do not worry , I will not say or do anything to hurt her . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm just about to go to bed and I thought I 'd ring and see how things are with you . ’ |
| 3 | That 's how things are with us . |
| 4 | Erm I do n't know erm how it is like , as I say because I , I 've been left now ten years eleven , eleven in May er so erm I , I really , I do n't know what , how things are with the er with the employees really you know , but erm I used to enjoys my meetings once a month erm and I think everybody seemed fair , we got and of course , according to the Co- magazine that we have , that Focus , they always send me one of those still and er I mean , you 've got er , we used to have a good football team and I think they 've still got a sports team have n't they ? |
| 5 | You can see how things are with conversation And yesterday I started it off all er lovely , good morning John and he , and he John , John answered |
| 6 | Franca thought , he 's sent her on ahead to fix things up , to have things out , to clarify things , to establish the regime , how things are to be from now on . |
| 7 | The conviction carried by how things are in his fiction can not be separated from the sense that they might be otherwise . |
| 8 | One can only understand how things are in terms of concepts in the first place , so in a sense the concepts came first since natural conditions only gain significance in terms of the way one had learned to see them . |
| 9 | We can know how things are in front of our noses , maybe , but it is not possible to know that an altruistic act is morally good , nor that God exists , nor that you will have eggs for breakfast tomorrow . |
| 10 | But I suppose I must have told them how things were between me and Richard because as I lay on my bed , in my old room , I heard Aunt Lilian telephoning . |
| 11 | ‘ It was terrible not being able to let you know how things were between Peter and me , ’ she told him rapidly , scarcely able to tear her lips from beside his own . |
| 12 | She would see out the contract if they would have her , and then consider how things were at the end of it . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm just trying to explain how things were at the time . |
| 14 | Vern Zelmer , now managing director of Rank Xerox ( UK ) Ltd , recalls how things were at the time . |
| 15 | One autumn day towards the end of 1973 , Bernard was driving through Oxford and , as was his wont , stopped off to see how things were at the local shop . |
| 16 | That evening I wrote again to Mrs Girdlestone and said I would come and see how things were with my aunt , and if possible arrange for something to be done . |
| 17 | I could see how things were with him at home ; his wife was no good at her job . |
| 18 | They were with Sean who was telling his aunt how things were with him and Michael . |
| 19 | Verses three and four are a nostalgic reminiscence of how things were before AIDS . |
| 20 | One day while out visiting with Father John a man asked me how things were in my country . |
| 21 | They accepted it as a general statement of how things were in the past . |
| 22 | Complicated timetables of services , juggling of ASBs with 1662s spread over five venues usually indicated that the first enquiry should be a suitably sympathetic one about ‘ how things were in the parishes ’ . |
| 23 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 24 | Overall , the review may be judged to have been effective in that it produced valid and reliable evidence of how things were in the Art department , on the basis of which prescriptions for institutional changes might be made , and it provided the necessary motivation for those changes of the most direct importance to the pupils to be acted upon . |