Example sentences of "was [adj] [Wh adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It was odd how the scar had remained all these years . |
2 | Was that why a handful of Cork 's Jews had decided to emigrate to Palestine ? |
3 | Grandfather , the youngest son of Count Nikolai Denknetzeyan , was nineteen when the revolution broke out . |
4 | Club member Harry Porter ( born 1902 ) was six when the course opened and he remembers dimly walking the first hole with the crowd . |
5 | The same principle applies to the highest key on any track ; as the highest key on track 06 was 298 when the file was created , a record with the key 299 belongs logically to track 07 , whether it is stored on that track already or has not yet been added . |
6 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
7 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
8 | Excitement had been steadily rising in the crowded chamber during the closing stages of the debate on a new clause to be added to the Criminal Justice Bill , but jubilation found vent in a roar of cheering when it was evident how the vote had gone … |
9 | Viktor was twelve when the war ended and by that time he had forgotten how to cry . |
10 | ‘ I was 20 when the change came , ’ he recalls . |
11 | She was thirty-three when the baby was born . |
12 | It was disconcerting how the desire not to appear a fool followed one into captivity . |