Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A plaque tells how it was once the wartime headquarters of 98 Squadron which operated Mitchells from Dunsfold . |
| 2 | Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow . |
| 3 | It began one morning at breakfast in the days when I was still a bachelor and Tristan and I were taking our places at the mahogany dining table . |
| 4 | Yes , I had all the other feelings of distress and fear , I thought of the world at war , I remembered the last war of 1914 — 18 when I was still a schoolboy and I had experienced the air raids on London then . |
| 5 | In fact , my recent painting of Paddington Station was inspired by a sketch I made in 1953 when I was still a student . |
| 6 | Having taken Joyce gently back through her childhood , we reached a time when she was just a toddler . |
| 7 | Right from the time when you were only a kid ! ’ |
| 8 | He 'd managed to track her down on the Friday evening , waiting for several minutes as she was summoned to the communal phone in the hall where she was now a deputy warden . |
| 9 | Because he never got a lass into trouble — except once , and that was when he was just a lad . |
| 10 | That morning , when he was about a quarter of a mile from the school gate , a Volvo estate car drew out from a side-road and drove straight at him . |
| 11 | Would n't want to remember when he was once a friend , I suppose . |
| 12 | Other early examples of Culpeper 's work are a wood-block engraving of a trencher design dated 1687 , when he was still an apprentice , and a fine gilt-brass horizontal sundial , signed ‘ E.C . ’ , |
| 13 | Harry Farnham Germain Letson was born in Vancouver on Sept 26 1896 , when it was still a shantytown . |
| 14 | This attractive country home dates back to the 16th century when it was once a farm labourer 's cottage . |
| 15 | Well one of the variants that , that was applied , you see under the , under the old er er time workers ' er arrangements where it was only the foreman who by visual contact you know with the amount of items produced at each machine could make any reasonable assessment in regard to the individual 's effort . |
| 16 | From Magdalen College Orchard leased farm-land in Headington , where he was also a quarryman , engaging to supply stone to Eton College for Waynflete 's work there , which included the antechapel . |
| 17 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
| 18 | The event was significant , for it followed hard upon the death in April of King John II in England , where he was still a prisoner . |
| 19 | The actor who played Dirty Den in Eastenders has gone back to the prison where he was once an inmate . |