Example sentences of "'s [Wh adv] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's 'ow it 'appened . |
| 2 | So I 'd check him out , and that 's how it went with him and all the others . |
| 3 | In fact my own wife , she came of a big family and and she had to look after most of the the younger children until they started work you see and then it was the next one that had to look after them again you see and so on , and that 's how it went on . |
| 4 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 5 | No they had n't a no they they started alright on that picket but as time rolled on and they was getting erm fed up with it , you know they that 's how it went as they were getting , oh I we wo n't go up there today , bugger it . |
| 6 | That 's how it came . |
| 7 | That 's how it came about — idiots would clamber onstage and either get slung off or would dive off before Penge 's answer to Sid Justice got hold of them . |
| 8 | That 's how it happens , all those improvisational sections coming out — me forgetting what I played on albums and not going back and re-learning it . ’ |
| 9 | But that 's how it happens ! |
| 10 | So there would be no local conference neither would there be any central conference , and that 's how it prevailed after the changes were invoked by the rule revision . |
| 11 | But that 's how it had got to be in the early days , otherwise it would have cost more to run than I took . |
| 12 | ‘ And that 's how it kept going on . |
| 13 | No Owen , that , that 's how it does n't come out , that 's what 's happened to you . |
| 14 | This sounds silly , but that 's how it felt . |
| 15 | That 's how it began . |
| 16 | At least that 's how it seemed . |
| 17 | That 's how it seemed to the mystified outsider . |
| 18 | No , not to be properly aware of it ; that 's how it seemed to me . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's how it feels to me , too . ’ |
| 20 | Maureen looked at him in surprise and he said hastily , ‘ That 's how it sounds to me . |
| 21 | And , and that 's how it operated . |
| 22 | Yeah I reckon so I reckon that 's how it got outside on the floor ! |
| 23 | That 's how we got it right and that 's how it finished up taking $180 million worldwide . |
| 24 | today the two counties have been playing on in the championship and here 's how it finished … they tried hard to get a result but rain stopped play … and the game ended in a draw … |
| 25 | and we 'll be back at Jackdaws Castle in ten days time for the official opening by the Princess Royal … finally tonight we 've got the result of our Nigel Mansell competition … thanks for all your cards … we had hundreds and here 's how it finished |
| 26 | Leroy Rosenior got the equaliser just before half-time and that 's how it finished 1-1 . |
| 27 | And that 's how it reads . |
| 28 | cos I had n't read it you see yeah , he said that 's how it reads . |
| 29 | The fruit has a long pointed protrusion , rather like a bird 's beak , and that 's how it gets the geranium name , meaning ‘ crane ’ . |
| 30 | Here 's how it goes . |