Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pers pn] be [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie made no reply and it was Jack who said , ‘ Why , have you ? ’ |
| 2 | Taking one thing with another : body temperature , ambient temperature , the fact that Saturn is in the ascendant and it 's Sunday , I 'd say he 's been dead up to eighteen hours , probably not less than fourteen , that puts it between nine and one last night . |
| 3 | FISA has been invited to design its F1 circuit within the complex and it is Pook 's belief that it will provide a permanent home ‘ for one of the grands prix in the US ’ . |
| 4 | My own flesh and blood and I 'm Dot interested to hear of her ? ’ |
| 5 | If Niki had sought to impress Prost with a victory at the very start of the season , the ploy did n't work : an improperly soldered battery cable put him out of action and it was Prost who impressed . |
| 6 | She expects to cope with that side and she 's C. of E. ’ |
| 7 | If you read that we need you to phone into that lady and it 's Vivienne . |
| 8 | She was not a lesbian and it was Constance 's mind that she wished to possess , not her body . |
| 9 | Seven o'clock tonight it 's er Radio Nottingham Sport and it 's Colin on tonight , and er John from ten until midnight with a behind the scenes look at This Is Your Life with Roy and John 's talking to Geoff as well who 's er a painter of reproductions of art history . |
| 10 | Dundela got it together in the second half and it was Dean Smyth 's turn to save his side . |
| 11 | His sally at Descartes when he remarks that there has never been a complete sceptic goes to the heart of the issue and it was David Hume , arch sceptic , who wondered aloud why it was that his scepticism vanished whenever he left his study . |
| 12 | But it was only when Susato began to publish at Antwerp in 1543 that their songs appeared in quantity and it was Susato who really launched Crecquillon with a book of 36 chansons à 4 parties in 1543 , though he had published Crecquillon 's greatest hit , ‘ Ung gay bergier ’ , in a miscellaneous collection the year before . |
| 13 | They were tactful in avoiding any reference to the case and it was Wycliffe who , mellowed by good food and a couple of glasses of Burgundy , brought it up . |
| 14 | Mr Pincher , though , is only the ghost writer and it 's Dido who 's grabbing the headlines . |
| 15 | Felipe took no notice whatever of his sister and it was Maggie who had to comfort her and assure her that no harm had been done . |
| 16 | He had fought in the Boer War and he was John Buchan 's model for Richard Hannay in the Thirty-Nine Steps . |
| 17 | So those are our prize winners by post and it was Jimmy James and the Vagabonds next on is Angela of Lincoln . |
| 18 | In his view , Baker and the LSG loyally pursued the president 's agenda and it was Reagan himself who decided whether to compromise , and when : ‘ It was Reagan , and Reagan alone , who decided that four fifths of a loaf , especially a loaf that was perhaps too large to begin with , was better than no loaf . ’ |
| 19 | None of the efforts of the Communist Party amounted to anything of a significant revolutionary threat about the General Strike and it was Winston Churchill , editing the Britain Gazette for the government , who drummed up more revolutionary potential than really existed . |
| 20 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |
| 21 | in the distance and it 's Nicholas being pressed by Amigamanore , these two matching stride and the long fellow goes for his whip on Nicholas , but he 's got the advantage . |
| 22 | Nobody spoke for a while and it was Sarah who eventually broke the silence . |
| 23 | But the visitors were unable to take advantage of the strong tailwind and it was Alton who scored a vital goal to lead 1–0 at half-time . |
| 24 | and the traffic and it 's Nottingham and it 's a busy place he said look at that ! |
| 25 | Mm yeah Thursday and it , it says Tuesday in the paper and it 's Thursday . |
| 26 | There was a notice and it was Monday and I said , you know , what was it ? |
| 27 | It was quarter to nine in the morning and it was Oliver speaking . |
| 28 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
| 29 | So from a view of the president as impotent and ineffective and helpless you have a view of the president as being er the action man , the crisis manager and it 's Lincoln 's view , the Linc Lin Lincolnian view of the presidency which has survived er an and developed with , with the odd , the odd hark back to a previous , a previous age . |
| 30 | So we sat on this row and it was Paul and his young lady and David all in the row with us . |