Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] [pers pn] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's for him that I am accepting this honour . |
| 2 | The Regulations are presently the responsibility of Building Control Officers within local authorities and it is to them that you should apply if you want to do any work which might be affected by the Regulations . |
| 3 | The landowner , Lord Wharncliffe , conscious of the loss of one of Britain 's greatest natural assets , immediately instructed his workmen to reconstruct the lip exactly as it was before , and it is to him that we now owe the sight of Hardraw Force in all its almost-original splendour . |
| 4 | His priority is people : it is through them that he makes profit . |
| 5 | These two men went directly to the site to place on record the facts of the find and it is from them that we know so much of Hailing Man . |
| 6 | It is from them that I learn what I have . |
| 7 | It was through them that I heard about the forthcoming penny farthing races at Ferrymead Historic Park , on Waitangi Day ( the NZ national day , Feb. 6th ) . |
| 8 | He also taught us music and it was through him that I learned of its expressive nature . |
| 9 | It was through her that I became interested in life . |
| 10 | After the war a man called Alec Howson in Barnard Castle ran the trips and it was with him that we went to Loch Lomond . |
| 11 | I remember thinking how typical it was of her that she never thought of being wooed . |
| 12 | Constance was , at present , the most important person in her life , for it was to her that she read out items of interest in the newspaper , with her that she shared her doubts and prejudices and to her that she described her dreams . |
| 13 | Thoughts of Edward dominated her young life : it was for him that she yearned , breathed , existed . |
| 14 | It was for him that she had raised Luke to be the man he was . |
| 15 | ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’ |
| 16 | Discipline was rigid and we respected it , but resented it too , because of a particular juvenile arrogance that must have been founded on the knowledge that the world was changing a lot more than they realised , and it was for us that it was changing . |
| 17 | It was from him that she learned a love of science and a facility at working with her hands . |