Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nick Wright of the Photo Co-op also took four or five groups around the exhibition , and some 400 Education Packs were sent to schools around the country , explaining what Magnum is , how it started with a small band of six , and how it has now grown to over a hundred , with offices in New York , Paris and London . |
| 2 | As we understand more about a text 's specific historicity , how it emerged from a distinctive social embedment , we might expect it to be unavailable sometimes for current employment . |
| 3 | ‘ And that 's how it stayed for a long , long time . |
| 4 | It was only when it shut with a rusty creak that he realized that he had company . |
| 5 | Translating them into actual events , there could be few people who had anticipated that a British Airways Boeing 747 would suffer loss of power on all four engines for sixteen minutes when it flew into a volcanic ash cloud at 37 000 feet . |
| 6 | The manuscript remained in the imperial collection until 1612 ; its subsequent history is unknown until the late nineteenth century when it reappeared in a Viennese private collection . |
| 7 | It was founded in 1873 by William Robert Roe in a modest house in the Mount Pleasant area of Derby before becoming established at Friargate where it grew into a fine school . |
| 8 | I found the Golden Turk where it nestled in a small alleyway , just beneath the great mass of St Paul 's . |
| 9 | Here at the fault a ventilation shaft was being put up to the surface where it linked with a short low drift driven into the boulder clay near the foot of Kernal Crag . |
| 10 | According to aviation officials the A-300 should have been 1,500 feet higher at the point where it crashed into a jagged mountain face . |
| 11 | The task did n't stop here — Fiona also had to write up a detailed log of the trip , complete with samples , photographs and complex scientific data showing when the river had high and low tides and why it flowed in a certain direction . |