Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] were [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been in the lighthouse business for most of his life and was chief engineer in a firm which also made other marine signals , such as buoys and tide gauges , many of which were his design . |
| 2 | When eventually he returned to the hotel , wearing a complete set of clothes none of which were his own , Minton asked where he had been . |
| 3 | Erm of which were there were many in those days er , not so many today of course but er er ooh I should say there were probably on Vale which was our nearest sort of shopping area to where we lived , there were probably two or three erm shoe repairers , including , and you could go and buy leather there . |
| 4 | You say when you had handcuffed him he said something to me asking along the lines of what were we doing in his house . |
| 5 | but in nineteen eighty seven that expansion of advertising and therefore ad advertising costs in what were you thinking of in terms of roughly in nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 6 | I mean they 're , they ended up about what were they , about fifth or something were n't they ? |