Example sentences of "in what [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , they went on watching the Syrian tanks manoeuvring down the road half a mile away , in what had the previous day been the Christian front line . |
| 2 | Fifteen hundred men worked at one time in what became the largest copper mine in Europe — a vast open-cast quarry hewn out of the hilltop . |
| 3 | Sexuality thus had an extremely complex and vital symbolic role in what became the dominant ideology in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Only archaeological traces survive of their original civilization , which emerged in what became the unique Aksumite kingdom that lasted until the end of the tenth century AD . |
| 5 | In what became the biggest spending spree the club with the Scrooge image has ever embarked on , Nicholas returned home to Parkhead along with his former Arsenal teammate Martin Hayes and another old Celtic Boys ' Club stalwart , the ex-Hibernian midfield player John Collins . |