Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the star was , how it was connected to Eärendil , how the name could cover both star and man , from what danger it signalled deliverance , whether that deliverance was final for the soulless elves … all these questions , and others , could find answers in the inventions of later narrative , in the different viewpoints of The Silmarillion or Bilbo 's song in The Fellowship of the Ring . |
| 2 | Vananu 's brother Meir Vananu told the Davar newspaper that the court had " rejected my brother 's request to allow the public to know how he was brought to Israel " . |
| 3 | No I was a , it was when I was going to work , in was in the afternoon like . |
| 4 | 22 year old Katherine Monastyrskaya managed to struggle to a road where she was helped to hospital by passers by . |
| 5 | But goodness knows where she was going to sleep . |
| 6 | When Jessamy reached the house she collected her painting materials , rough sketches and a couple of books she thought she might need , then made her way to the drawing-room where she was going to work . |
| 7 | The Mimicke Dog was thought to be raised by apes in Africa , from whence it was imported to England as a treasure for Queen Elizabeth I. |
| 8 | Gregory says he was the son of a slave and that he came to prominence in the household of king Charibert , whence he was promoted to being comes of Tours . |
| 9 | His monastery was strongly affected by the evangelical movement in Seville in the 1550s , when he was converted to Protestantism , thereafter remaining a convinced Calvinist . |
| 10 | A distraught Leonie tried unsuccessfully to contact Hugo to warn him and the first he knew of the débâcle was when he was summoned to Nicholson 's cramped stale-tobacco smelling office . |
| 11 | He continued working on his translation in Scotland until 1837 , when he was sent to Persia by the synod of the United Secession Church to complete his labours . |
| 12 | Then it was repeated late at night to salute Havel when he was sent to prison again . |
| 13 | Hobson had been associated with the UN Trust Territory since 1963 , and had served in Belau until 1977 when he was transferred to Saipan ( Northern Marianas ) . |
| 14 | He entered the world of local government in 1968 , when he was elected to Cheshire County Council at the age of 25 . |
| 15 | Creevey was educated at Newcome 's School , Hackney , which favoured ‘ the sons of noblemen and gentlemen ’ , from c .1780 to 1787 , when he was admitted to Queens ' College , Cambridge , whence he graduated in 1789 as seventh wrangler . |
| 16 | He was educated at Bristol Grammar School until 1732 , when he was admitted to St John 's College , Oxford , as a Bristol fellow . |
| 17 | His dedication and expertise with Delta were finally rewarded after eleven years when he was promoted to leader of Squadron B , with sixteen men under his command , but while he was on assignment in Libya his wife and five-year-old son were abducted by Arab terrorists in New York . |
| 18 | Melchet Forest in Wiltshire finally passed out of the hands of the Crown in 1614 , when it was leased to Sir Lawrence Hyde , and in the same year John Waller and Thomas Purcell received a grant of Pamber Forest in Hampshire , ‘ consisting of the soil only , the woods being sold away and the deer gone ’ . |
| 19 | The two sites at St-Aubin and Itteville , 40 km from Paris , held radioactive waste from 1948 until the 1970s when it was sent to La Hague , France 's nuclear waste treatment centre . |
| 20 | At Brent in Somerset a piece of land was defined in the late seventh century when it was granted to Glastonbury Abbey . |
| 21 | Stan persuaded me to play truant and take a two-week holiday to Italy where he was going to caddie for Craig Defoy . |
| 22 | Bob Hoover in his yellow P-51 shepherded Rare Bear as Shelton put her safely down on a taxiway where he was forced to ground-loop , without damage . |
| 23 | In February 1865 he made a brief visit to Oxford , where he was introduced to Gerard Manley Hopkins [ q.v. ] , their only meeting in person . |