Example sentences of "was [num] [Wh adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Grandfather , the youngest son of Count Nikolai Denknetzeyan , was nineteen when the revolution broke out . |
2 | Club member Harry Porter ( born 1902 ) was six when the course opened and he remembers dimly walking the first hole with the crowd . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
5 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
6 | Viktor was twelve when the war ended and by that time he had forgotten how to cry . |
7 | ‘ I was 20 when the change came , ’ he recalls . |
8 | She was thirty-three when the baby was born . |