Example sentences of "[Wh adv] it [verb] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians .
2 It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast .
3 The first record of the Works ' involvement in war-work is that of 1855 , when it supplied two locomotives for the Army on the Balaclava Railway in the Crimea .
4 British Aerospace was amongst the features today when it lost 12 pence to four hundred and fif , five hundred and forty one pence on rumours that the Saudis had cancelled some Tornado options .
5 to where it evaporates one step from the bottom ,
6 At its offices in High Holborn in London , one of the firm 's partners explains why it sets one rate for all its customers .
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