Example sentences of "[Wh det] were [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That was followed a few years later by the Meadows situation in Dallas , Texas , where Alger Meadows had bought from two travelling Frenchmen a whole collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works which were all fakes .
2 Even the ruined library still contained many texts which were witnesses to a local tradition of artistic skill , showing a consuming interest in miraculous happenings and that curious mixture of vernacular and Latin literacy which were all characteristic of late Anglo-Saxon culture .
3 He was called Francis Alexander William , which were all family names .
4 So we talked and I said well we would think about it and we would let him know so we collected all the friends that we thought would like to help which were many people were very good to help !
5 He looked at the bottles , which were many colours , red and green and blue and smoky topaz , and contained wisps and rinsings of nothing much , a sigh of smoke in one , a rocking of spirituous liquid in another .
6 The curving pond , flanked with stunning peonies which were another legacy of the garden and thrive in London 's clay-based soil , is an experiment , says Patricia , that she intends to improve on this summer .
7 I remember the gypsies or didycoys congregating outside their favourite pubs in Milford Street on Tuesdays and Saturdays which were both Market Days .
8 He pointed to the plate on which were some slices of cold streaky bacon .
9 She was made to stand naked on two stools which were some yard apart .
10 The son of a wealthy London merchant , Lethieullier was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries ; he knew both William and John Hunter , who in turn must have been aware of his collection of Egyptian antiquities , amongst which were some mummies brought back from Egypt to Aldersbrook by Lethieullier 's cousin , Colonel William Lethieullier .
11 ‘ I 'm sorry to bother you , but what were those directions again ?
12 But what were those reasons ?
13 When they , when they came in the summer and they said erm they , they planned and they said approximately how much , what were those figures ?
14 What were those benefits ?
15 Dedham from Langham , long blues , long brown shore , brush strokes in the clouds ; Rockets and Blue Lights ( Close at Hand ) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water , painted light rippled the sand and waves into a vortex and what were those people doing on the shore ?
16 What were these Acts of Parliament they spoke of , to do with factories and labour ?
17 ‘ But what were these powders ? ’
18 What were these girls learning through this activity ?
19 What were these papers doing in here ?
20 What were these people doing that we were n't doing , and vice versa ?
21 Now , I can imagine that when they started off the journey Ruth , a was full of excitement and wonder what was gon na happen , what were these people who lived in Bethlehem like ?
22 What were these blackout curtains made of , then ?
23 What were these kids to him ?
24 And what was it what were these homes for Mr ?
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