Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
2 | There was just some little part of me that carried me wide of him . |
3 | I was scared to cross the stepping-stones and it was turning back to encourage me that caused her to slip . ’ |
4 | It 's me that told him not to go ! |
5 | It 's me that told him not to go cos I said , I did n't want to go this week and he did n't go . |
6 | Melody looked up at his drawn face and said , ‘ I 'm sorry it was me that told you , Seb , but I 'm not sorry about what we did afterwards , are you ? ’ |
7 | You sure it was n't me that wrote it ? |
8 | It definitely were n't me that checked it . |
9 | It was me , me that finished him off ! ’ |
10 | It were me that realized we 'd fetched wrong ones , not Des . |
11 | you to find that was , it was me that did it . |
12 | and until you see him doing it ooh I said you never told me that did you ? |
13 | I said to Bev erm do n't mean to say , I mean I might get home and find she 's got a phone call but she said to me yes I mean we , she did think of going out yesterday , and it was me that stopped it but if I feel so inclined today we 'll go down if she 's in |
14 | and because , it 's only this , it 's only me , it 's only me that , me that tricked her . |
15 | ‘ It was me that set her on fire ! ’ |
16 | In fact when I er er periods started it was them that told me all about it not me mother and did n't never think then about st er sex or anything , not a thing , I was as innocent as day was born when I was eighteen . |
17 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
18 | His dark eyes searched her face , and there was a momentary desperation in them that made her reach up to reassure him . |
19 | In trying to sort out this problem I was driven to delving through old logbooks , and it was reading them that made me realise just how often we had based ourselves in the area . |
20 | It was what we were told about them that made us frightened . |
21 | It 's them that made it worse for the others , if everybody had a stayed up together , and and stayed out , we we everybody had the same troubles , money trouble . |
22 | ‘ Was there anything at all about them that struck you as odd ? ’ |
23 | ‘ So it was one of them that kidnapped us ? ’ said Twoflower . |
24 | Ward was still asleep when I turned right and headed eastwards towards the Andes , the mist a white vapour , the rice fields , the cacti , the occasional trees , all having a weirdness about them that matched my mood and added to my growing fear of what lay ahead , beyond the mountains I could not see . |
25 | It was you that made me like him . |
26 | It was you that taught me to be a Darwinist , a decent gradualist . |
27 | Analysis is a very slow process and it takes a long time to weed through the past and try to discover what things happened to you that affected you . |
28 | ‘ It was thinking I 'd lost you that brought me to my senses . |
29 | No , it 's Greg and you that got me on to saying that . |
30 | Oh I see so it was you that got them together oh |