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
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