Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [noun] [conj] [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This possibility may be less prominent if it were Jack and Jill who went to the cinema . |
| 2 | It 's Lear and Edgar who rescue the night . |
| 3 | So when famine strikes , it 's women and children who suffer first . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's Aubrey or Dunbar who buy the tickets and arrange things , so naturally they 're both around . ’ |
| 5 | It is Claudius and Gertrude who are the main victims of Hamlet 's anger , and everything they do makes Hamlet hate them even more . |
| 6 | Among the poor , it is women and children who collect firewood , and they seldom cut down trees . |
| 7 | In particular , we shall insist on the principle that it is speakers and writers who have topics , not texts . |
| 8 | For in the main it is our own parishioners who donate the goods ; it is residents within the area who benefit from the high quality and the low prices ; and it is Charlie and May who have found a vocation in later life serving both community and parish with their gifts of energy and time . |
| 9 | Again it is Hogwood and Gunn who summarise the case in favour of incrementalism : |
| 10 | In the closing decades of the nineteenth century it was moralists and feminists who set the pace in the field of sexual politics . |
| 11 | It was William and Hugh who led the foresters and verderers to search the houses of suspects for evidence and arrest offenders , and who presided at special inquests on Forest offences , and at the local Forest courts . |
| 12 | No fewer than six play in central European football with three coming from Austria Vienna — Robertas Fridrikas — a player who hits a free kick like Ronald Koeman — Valdas Ivanauskas and the skilful midfield playmaker Arminas Narbekovas , It was Narbekovas and Fridrikas who scored in Belfast while the strong runs of 6 foot 2 inch Ivanauskas caused the Irish defence many problems . |
| 13 | Nevertheless it was Webb and Bath who made their mark first , with a neat series of passes over on the right . |
| 14 | They got on like a house on fire and did n't stop talking afterwards — it was Julian and Robert who wound each other up . |
| 15 | She thought afterwards , and was to think for a long time , that it was Sophie and Teodor who saved her . |
| 16 | Alas , I was only just beginning to be visually aware , but to the extent to which I have grown in such awareness over the years I believe it was Basil and Ruth who started to make me look and see . |
| 17 | It was Carol and Bill who shook me . ’ |
| 18 | As at Lord 's , it was Logie and Dujon who got the runs , but with Foster taking 5 for 64 they were all out for 183 , the first time England had taken a first-innings lead since the Lord 's game of 1984 . |
| 19 | A total of 446 gave England plenty to do , and as before it was Lamb and Smith who did the bulk of the work . |
| 20 | Quite probably you will have discovered that you put much more emphasis than we did on the immediate problem of trying to discover whether it was Chrissie or Fred who was telling the truth . |