Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] it [be] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she called Nahum to know who it was he did n't answer , and it was almost a week before she recognized Elizabeth Bradford . |
| 2 | They were the years in which we began to grow up ; in which we started to discover who it was we thought we 'd like to be ; in which our earliest ( and therefore longest-lasting ) preferences in love , music , pleasure were formed . |
| 3 | ‘ But we have to do everything we can to find whatever it was he gave to Tristram before October the eleventh . ’ |
| 4 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 5 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , shut up , Bob , ’ said Dyson , peering into the engine and trying to see what it was he had touched . |
| 7 | While one may reasonably ask what someone shouted , it hardly makes sense to ask what it was they screamed . |
| 8 | He started to explain what it was he wanted , with sentries shouting along the corridors outside , but was cut short . |
| 9 | When asked to show what it was he offered a bottle opener , but Miss Sherwin said as he did so he dropped a polythene bag containing 12 LSD tabs and a small amount of cannabis resin . |