Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adj] [noun sg] was at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after his return he took a lease of Colworth House , Sharnbrook in north Bedfordshire , from John Fiott-Lee , whose principal seat was at Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire . |
| 2 | Much more important for Peter was the family of his grandfather , William de Cantelupe ( died 1239 ) , whose principal residence was at Aston Cantlow , only four miles from Beaudesert . |
| 3 | And from at least 569 the Celtic Church had its own See , the bishopric of Bretoña , centred upon Santa Maria de Bretoña near Mondoliedo in Galicia , the region of north-western Spain whose later capital was at Santiago de Compostela , and which had remained most loyal to Priscillianist teaching . |
| 4 | Stamford had a particularly barbaric and unusual festivity — the bull-running — whose only parallel was at Tutbury in Staffordshire . |
| 5 | Faversham was one of the main centres in England of the honour of Boulogne , which country lay against the border of western Flanders , whose mercantile centre was at St Omer . |
| 6 | But even worse than this neglect of anything that happened outside the courts of Europe was the way that political history was distilled into a narrative , based on whatever literary evidence was at hand . |