Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 2 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 3 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |
| 4 | In October 1301 , Roger-Bernard III 's son Gaston , who was to succeed him in 1302 , was married to Jeanne d'Artois , sister of Robert II , count of Artois , at the very heart of the Capetian court circle . |
| 5 | The quality of those crosses was nt up to much most of the time — but some credit has to go to their keeper who was taking everything within 12–13 yards of his line … |
| 6 | However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war . |