Example sentences of "was [adj] [Wh adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was odd how the scar had remained all these years .
2 Grandfather , the youngest son of Count Nikolai Denknetzeyan , was nineteen when the revolution broke out .
3 Club member Harry Porter ( born 1902 ) was six when the course opened and he remembers dimly walking the first hole with the crowd .
4 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 .
5 I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see .
6 I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see .
7 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 …
8 Viktor was twelve when the war ended and by that time he had forgotten how to cry .
9 ‘ I was 20 when the change came , ’ he recalls .
10 She was thirty-three when the baby was born .
11 It was disconcerting how the desire not to appear a fool followed one into captivity .
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