Example sentences of "was [Wh adv] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was how I was once , ’ I mused to myself . |
| 2 | This was how I regarded Dana from the start . |
| 3 | This was how I valued other people , too — how I valued Dana , as someone who did not need to be improved but allowed to flourish in his own right , with all the confusions and contradictions of which he was capable . |
| 4 | That was how I 'd got used to it , at any rate , ’ |
| 5 | That day and later at Ascot , rocketing clear in all his glory was how I want to remember the great Nijinsky . |
| 6 | That was how I got named Yellow Wolf . |
| 7 | Mrs Webster was very understanding about my wanting to team up with Wendy , which was how I put it to her ; and when I left she gave me a Victorian glass inkwell and a brown ironstone plate , because I ‘ liked old things ’ . |
| 8 | I tried to explain to Irena that I did n't mind , that this was how I felt it should be — the real Central Europe — and anyway I preferred that kind of place to ordered museums and shining monuments . |
| 9 | That was how I got started . |
| 10 | No doubt I was jealous , and I was certainly intolerant , but it is no good denying that was how I felt . |
| 11 | That was how I used to treat them . |
| 12 | That was how I perceived it , in wordless ways in my head , in my gut . |
| 13 | This was how I interpreted his arguments . |
| 14 | The next problem was how to deliver it , since I sat at the back in English ( our next lesson ) and Belinda sat at the front — which was how I knew that her hair touched her chair ! |
| 15 | It was how I 'd always imagined showbiz would be — far removed from the stark reality of Working Men 's Clubs . |
| 16 | This was how I met Mrs Allen . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , shit , ’ I then said , because that was how I felt and because I suddenly knew that the next few minutes were going to be extraordinarily difficult . |
| 18 | It was how I communicated . |
| 19 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 20 | He wanted to pay the TV licence , although it was n't due until July , and sent off a post-dated cheque which , incidentally , was how I found out they do n't accept them . |
| 21 | I 'd had a stable home at the price of her martyrdom and this was how I 'd repaid her . |
| 22 | That was how I heard Old Red had been as angry as Sister over the Charlie Peters affair , and had said as much to Dr Jones . |
| 23 | That was how I got to know Nikolai Nikolaevich Khardzhiev . |
| 24 | And that was how I came to join the Western Mail and stayed from 1958 to 61 , during which time the ownership changed from Kemsleys to Thomsons . |
| 25 | That was how I wanted it to be , but what made me ache was the knowledge that Jo could n't have all she wanted : to he the writer of stories , whose stories were her children , but heart-breakingly not to have Laurie . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That was how I got remanded in custody when I was only fifteen . |
| 28 | Ernest , Alfred , Louis , Max : the band of students , that was how I thought of them . |
| 29 | That was how I eventually got my bicycle . |
| 30 | into the , the works and that , and that was how I started . |