Example sentences of "[noun] it [be] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Whatever implement it was that hit him went a long way round his skull but did n't penetrate very far , for which he should thank his stars . ’
2 Each time you pick one up you will be checking which rod it is and adjusting your actions to suit that particular rod .
3 It would not be right for me to say that he was wrongly ennobled , because I know too little about him to be able to detect whatever surprising quality it was that commended itself to Harold Wilson for admission to the House of Lords .
4 Both victim and aggressor would be immune from moral judgment ; the former for taking whatever social path it was that made him vulnerable and the latter for unleashing his fury , frustrations or whatever , upon the passive recipient of his cruelty and wrath .
5 It danced in consort with whatever power it was that provoked her thought , and so energetically at times that , when a day 's work was over , she felt as weary as one of the dancing princesses from a fairy-tale , exhausted by their demon partners .
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