Example sentences of "was how [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had fixed his star on the great Shakespearian roles — that , in his professional life , was what he lived by , that was how he tested himself to the limit . |
| 2 | That was how he put it in his theological terms . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Buttoned up and locked in was how she described him to herself . |
| 6 | That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage . |