Example sentences of "[Wh adv] in [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Moreover Pound had reached Williams 's conclusion about literary London , and in 1920 left for Paris , whence in 1924 he moved to Rapallo . |
2 | He moved it to his palace in Pavia , where in 1420 it was recorded as being in the ducal library . |
3 | He had two foreign looms copied , and returned to England , setting up business in Taunton , where in 1589 he experimented with a multicoloured Spanish cloth , called medley or ‘ Webb 's ’ cloth . |
4 | Maginn spent the rest of his life as a dedicated missioner in Belfast , where in 1888 he had the pleasure of becoming the first superintendent of the Mission Hall for the Adult Deaf and Dumb which was opened that year by Miss Wilhelmina Frederick . |
5 | At his favourite monastery of Grandmont , where in 1170 he had wanted to be buried , he met Count Audebert of La Marche . |
6 | Our story begins in India , where in 1885 what was arguably the only significant nationalist organization with which the British ever had to contend , the Indian National Congress , was founded by — an Englishman . |
7 | Health and hygiene were also cited , with special reference to women s " future usefulness as wives and mothers " , These arguments had already been well rehearsed in France , where in 1862 there was a major strike by the Paris compositors against the employment of women . |
8 | The wartime years brought the Polish artist , Josef Herman , first to Scotland , then to Wales , where in 1944 he settled in the mining village of Ystradgynlais . |
9 | Or in 1982 the Navy would fight the Falklands , the very spot where in 1914 it won a spectacular victory and uncannily on both occasions the flagship was called Invincible . |
10 | But there was so much of that past now that he could not easily do so : when in 1959 there were rumours that the original manuscripts of The Waste Land had been found ( false rumours , as it turned out ) the news , according to an acquaintance , " depressed him " . |
11 | ‘ I remember when in 1987 he took us all to a castle near Como , ’ says Adriano Galliani , Milan 's managing director . |
12 | He was bitten by the flying bug at the age of four when in 1912 he saw a flimsy Bleriot aircraft flying near his Liverpool home . |
13 | Prof MANOLIS ANDRONIKOS , the Greek archaeologist who has died at Salonika aged 72 , made one of the great archaeological discoveries of the century when in 1977 he found the tomb of King Philip II of Macedon , the warrior father of Alexander the Great . |
14 | He was eighty-eight when in 1982 he held his first one-man exhibition , a retrospective at the Tate Gallery . |