Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [be] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had both apparently been part of the group clustered around the door ; had that been mere coincidence , or had it been Harry Martin that Luke had been so engrossed in talking to ? |
| 2 | He hacked his way through his cereal — Alf had been right — or had it been Bert ? |
| 3 | Then he saw the broken string of a relic-bag and realised it was Mael-Isu of Deer . |
| 4 | They giggled with bagels in a park strewn with dog-shit and broken bottles , and pretended it was New York . |
| 5 | And er he he suddenly looked up and went it 's Brian ! |
| 6 | I turned round , and saw it was Isabella Heathcliff . |
| 7 | She craned forward to look more clearly and saw it was Michael Swinton 's man , Punch , and that he was putting his horse , a great mangy thing , at the walls of the fields and leaping them and going on to the next as if he were steeplechasing . |
| 8 | She raised her head carefully , so as not exacerbate the thundering over her eyes , and saw it was Luke . |
| 9 | So , ’ she drew herself up to her full height , her tight black dress clasping her full figure as though the material was pasted to her , ‘ so , ’ she repeated , ‘ I opened it to check the photograph and saw it was Ed Riverton 's . |
| 10 | They saw a black Morris Cowley pull up in front of Hogan 's and knew it was Dr Johnson . |
| 11 | We just saw the last three letters and thought it was Colchester . ’ |
| 12 | Graham then back-tracked and said it was China , rather than Russia , which worried him . |
| 13 | They had gone all over the place ; peeking into the Oval Office ( but the little rope was across , Hakim said ) ; stopping on the stairs to look at a picture called The Canine Cabinet , in which North pointed out a drowsing member and said it was Casey ; and into the Roosevelt Room , where North showed the young Iranian the Nobel Prize won by Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating peace between the Russians and the Japanese . |