Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [noun prp] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they culled Who 's Who there was a debate on the executive about the ‘ Old Lord approach ’ — finding someone who had been a financial force in the past , and would prove the paper was commercially sober . |
| 2 | And then it did n't start up till then till the second one came the Joseph Jo er The second one was John it was christened . |
| 3 | and er we moved over there because erm the Department was splitting at the seams really , because immediately there was erm , the war was over and there were all sorts of plans for erm for development and that sort of thing and erm as I 've already mentioned there were two , only two graduates in the whole of the Education Department who was Mr and er his Personal Assistant and erm then after the war there were three graduates appointed , all of them from erm , ex service men , there was Arthur who was erm Lieutenant Commander in the Navy , there was erm Bud , I ca n't remember his Christ proper christian name . |
| 4 | And there was Chernayev who was a thief , and Byrkin who had been a naval Petty Officer , and Mamarev who they said was an informer . |
| 5 | And that was The headmaster there was Mr he was . |
| 6 | Well it 's Sunday I was looking for something nothing ? |
| 7 | It 's Saturday it was it 's not bloody arrangement . |
| 8 | In Nina 's stories it is Modigliani who was pushed off the bench , made to carry the beer in for a party . |
| 9 | It was Artemesia who was tortured into proving that she was a virgin when she was raped and had to dispute all the ’ witnesses ’ brought in by Tassi who claimed that they had had Artemesia too . ’ |
| 10 | Leeds battled fiercely with Whelan playing well up front , holding the ball and putting decent balls in the box a lot ( he came on for Rocky at half time ) but when we did get back in it it was Deano who was in the box and looking like scoring who got hauled down and the ref points to the spot . |
| 11 | It was Ryan who was trying to get permission — and yet Gwen had just said … and had n't Leo run out of the shop after Ryan ? |
| 12 | He lost the leadership of Leeds to Ellery Hanley and it was Hanley who was made skipper of Great Britain in Australia this summer . |
| 13 | It was Rose who was the first to break away . |
| 14 | they were saying how spoilt children are today and how , erm I think it was Anne who was telling me and I said it , that is just ridiculous is n't it ? for a four year old to have their own video |
| 15 | Somebody was telling me that erm some careers service It was Steve I was talking to in the car the other night . |
| 16 | The game was being played at furious pace and it was Richardson who was put to the test when he dived to turn round a long drive from Darlington in the thirty eighth minute . |
| 17 | Nerves were edgy as both players dropped their service games to remain neck and neck at 5–5 , but it was Powell who was able to break Curtis at the crucial moment to regain the lead . |
| 18 | So when Bryan Robson failed a fitness test , opening the way for Cantona 's full debut , it was McClair who was pushed back into midfield . |
| 19 | Kubitsky was holding the weapon , but it was Sandor who was smiling as he watched the others — Yuan , Zukov , Mubarak , even Vorontseff — as they climbed unarmed from the hatch . |
| 20 | Simon Draper , in particular , realised that as the Sex Pistols began to disintegrate it was Lydon who was ‘ the valuable commodity ’ , and that Virgin should be putting some effort into cultivating a relationship with him , with an eye to the future . |
| 21 | Now she found that , on the contrary , it was Nannie who was offering love and comfort to her . |
| 22 | It was Kanemaru who was widely credited with having ensured Miyazawa 's selection as LDP leader in 1991 . |
| 23 | In particular , Keyes had come to identify with the Romantic movement , and it was Heath-Stubbs who was able to broaden Keyes 's base by tracing for him the origins of Romanticism in primitive legends through the medieval to the Augustan poets . |
| 24 | For the moment , however , it was France who was riding the tiger and it would be her problem how to dismount . |
| 25 | It was Maggie he was after . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes ? ’ she answered , her voice guarded in case it was Jason who was calling . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course , I had no idea it was Nigel who was responsible . |
| 28 | She found herself walking along the road saying ‘ I 'll talk it all over with Alan when I get in — he 'll know what to do ’ , only to remember that it was Alan who was the cause of the heartache . |
| 29 | Regular stars of the contest , Alan Crossthwaite and Tony Dance , both fought hard in the singles final , but it was Alan who was able to draw on the experience of his many double successes to come out on top . |
| 30 | All the way from the Lock she had told herself that it was Gazzer who was lying . |