Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [pron] [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both had gone inside but it was her husband Bailey who set the fire . |
| 2 | When the West Country clothiers ' advocate William Temple wanted in 1739 to point to the advantages of the weavers , he stressed that it was their family earnings which lifted them above the condition of the farm worker . |
| 3 | I got out on bail , I think it was my probation officer who rang up . |
| 4 | It was my friend Nellie who lived in the yard next to ours . |
| 5 | ‘ When Murias fell , it was my brother Gaiar who saved Undry and carried it to Andernesse . |
| 6 | ‘ It was my charter company who recommended Kemp to me . ’ |
| 7 | And for fatherless Havelock Wilson , sea captain 's grandson , it was his storytelling grandmother who set him on his life path , despite a mother who banned him from the harbour at Sunderland . |
| 8 | They said it was his hunting horn they heard in the forest . ’ |
| 9 | At a recent press conference in Lahore , Nawaz Sharif claimed that it was his peace mission which brought about the joint US-Soviet communique which embarrassed the Bush government on the eve of Bush 's ‘ State of the Nation ’ address . |
| 10 | Now it was his aunt Elizabeth who nominated him , mostly because she says he 's a great , considerate wee boy . |
| 11 | Though father William probably invented the technique , it was his son James who , in 1785 , took out a patent for his ‘ new invention of Embellishing books bound in vellum , by making drawings on the vellum which are not liable to be defaced but by destroying the vellum itself . ‘ |
| 12 | When Smythe died ( June 1591 ) it was his son John who took over his interests . |