Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was it because it was Finn who kissed her and not a man like the men in whose arms she had imagined herself when she used to imagine things like that , in the past ? |
| 2 | He had a winging moustache and a goatee beard but he moved tentatively , uncertainly , and Melanie guessed it was Finn who worked him . |
| 3 | She guessed it was Finn who watched her most , unless the brothers took turns . |
| 4 | It was Finn who showed their rooms to Melanie and Jonathon . |
| 5 | ‘ Because Burun will not go — if it was reconnaissance I think he might , but it is not — and so I can not . ’ |
| 6 | It was Ten-huc who defused it , perhaps showing that old age brings wisdom even to pirates . |
| 7 | As his chauffeur drove him back to Blue Ash Farm in the Lincoln , he decided it was love which gave her that special glow , that sparkle , that vivacity which drew the young men round her like flies . |
| 8 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 9 | But when he came along to tell her it was dinnertime he persuaded her to come down . |
| 10 | It was surprise which made him stop for a second . |
| 11 | I do n't think it was romance I thought he kept her in chocolates and cigarettes . |
| 12 | It was shrapnel they call it . |
| 13 | It was time they transferred their attentions from ‘ the municipal privy ’ to suites at top hotels where those sort of drugs deals are carried out . |
| 14 | She did n't , actually , but if there was n't a proverb to fit then it was time someone wrote one . |
| 15 | Jessamy woke up on the morning of her twenty-fourth birthday and decided it was time she put her life in order . |
| 16 | This time Reception said they had run out of vases and , whatever he 'd done , did n't she think it was time she forgave him ? |
| 17 | ‘ I felt it was time you had your own . ’ |
| 18 | That boy needed a lesson — well , perhaps it was time he got one . |
| 19 | The RSPCA described French as callous and inept and it was time he got his comeuppance . |
| 20 | He decided it was time he improved his Test record in 1989 when England were mauled at home by the Australians and he lost his wicket several times to Terry Alderman . |
| 21 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ chipped in Dominic , deciding it was time he made his contribution . |
| 22 | Dalgliesh felt that it was time he contributed something to the speculation . |
| 23 | He crouched still for a time after that , for there was no haste , and now that it was time he found himself afraid ; there might be something to lose there , as well as something to find . |
| 24 | With the greatest of reluctance , I decided that it was time I bought myself another detector . |
| 25 | Among a series of films designed to cash in on the success of Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , for example , was Seth Holt 's The Nanny ( 1965 ) , made with the visual flair of his earlier Hammer picture , Taste of Fear ( 1961 ) , and telling the powerful tale of two sisters , both dependent in their own way on the woman who brought them up , who pay no attention to the declarations of their son and nephew that it was nanny who killed his sister and now wants to kill him . |
| 26 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 27 | I know it was fear which held you back . ’ |
| 28 | It was instinct which made her say it . |
| 29 | It was Mother who nursed us through it and it was an experience I would n't like to repeat . |
| 30 | Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting . |