Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [Wh det] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A deal was made which was of great benefit to both sides as Littler went on to present pantomimes for many years , sometimes as many as a dozen annually .
2 It arrived about two months after the news about my father , although it was only much later that I was told what was in it .
3 The next day , I was told what was in store for me and my schoolmates .
4 Presently they were ready at the place of meeting , and the gate was opened which was nearest the gardens where the Moors had entered , without order ; and they fell fiercely upon them , smiting and slaying .
5 But the chief aim was to construct what was in some ways an analogue of the dynamics of the personnel situation which could be watched almost while it moved .
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