Example sentences of "it be [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's her small child who is at stake . |
| 2 | Now it is my beautiful Ma who has the wrinkles ! |
| 3 | It is your overdue customer who should be apologetic . |
| 4 | If it is your own mother who is bereaved , the fact that you are grieving too will probably help you both a good deal , as you will be able to share your sorrow and comfort each other ; though in some families shared sorrow occasionally leads to friction and unreasonable apportioning of blame for trivial or imagined omissions in the course of the terminal illness of the deceased . |
| 5 | Sometimes in her memory , it was her faceless father who was two fingers short instead . |
| 6 | It was your precious brother who stole customers away from papa , took the profits to put in his own pocket . |
| 7 | ‘ I understand it was your older daughter who met Mr Hawick first ? ’ |
| 8 | It was my dreaming son who told me how to do this . |
| 9 | Well Sir Marquess across the road it was his first wife who died of a brain tumour and left him with three daughters , as we know . |
| 10 | It was his English tutor who had convinced his uncle that films were an excellent way to learn the language . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ma'am , ’ the hotel-owner told me , ‘ I was one of Mr Rochester 's servants at the time , and I can tell you it was his mad wife who started the fire in the governess 's room . |