Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [was/were] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereabouts was the basement flat , was it in Islington |
| 2 | The next thing I remember was being jerked to a stop outside the house and Oliver saying in a rather odd voice , ‘ A propos de bottes , how was the lune de miel ? ’ |
| 3 | Hey Herb , how was the Carpet Band ? |
| 4 | So — where were the nursery schools ? |
| 5 | Where were the Falkland Islands anyway ? |
| 6 | Where were the calomel pills and opium and brandy ? |
| 7 | And erm , where were the C I D officers whilst the armed officers went in ? |
| 8 | And where were the Amazon pirates ? |
| 9 | Why were the Ffestiniog locomotives converted to oil burning ? |
| 10 | When was the Home Secretary informed about this latest episode ? |
| 11 | When was the peak period for coal production ? |
| 12 | ‘ When was the cafe incident , Cullam ? ’ |
| 13 | Where was the Vicomte de Chagny ? |
| 14 | Where was the Union Jack ? |
| 15 | Where was the sewer outfall ? |
| 16 | Where was the village school ? |
| 17 | Where was the Engine Driver |
| 18 | I would ask of the game 's administrators here in Ulster is — when the money was being made freely available to provide all kinds of sports and leisure facilities here , where was the Ulster Council of the Lawn Tennis Association ? . |
| 19 | Where was the searchlight battery in Bloxwich then ? |
| 20 | To begin with er I could n't find the light switch because my , my gaze was directed er at the people in the bed but then er I asked the man in the bed , where was the light switch and er he helped me back towards the area where the switch was and we eventually succeeded in getting the light on . |
| 21 | She would have to find an envelope and buy a stamp ( where was the post office ? ) and post the letter and then a day would pass and then Mrs Rundle would take out her spectacles to read the letter in some new kitchen , with a refrigerator and a stove with automatic oven-control and an eye-level grill and gleaming plastic working surfaces and an electric blender and an electric coffee-mill , probably . |
| 22 | Fine — just like an endpiece from News at Ten — but where was the science angle ? |
| 23 | Why was the Lotus issue put into this mo this year 's training plan when it was last year 's money ? |
| 24 | Why was the lignite option given such short shrift by NIE when it was raised a few years ago ? |
| 25 | Now why was the United States defeated and was this war a rational war ? |
| 26 | Now why was the United States defeated and was this war a rational war ? |
| 27 | If that is so , why was the draft treaty text put forward by the Dutch — sporting what one might call ’ the other vision ’ — rejected by 10 of the 12 member states ? |
| 28 | ‘ Why was the rocket section of Gedanken 's craft pulled off rather than crushed ? ’ |
| 29 | Why was the bank clerk sitting up a tree ? |