Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [be] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Rachel heard someone moaning with pleasure and realised it was her .
2 Mary heard the calls and knew it was him but she waited .
3 The next morning he plonked all this money on the table , about eighteen hundred quid , and said it was mine to re-do the kitchen and the bathroom . ’
4 and said it was you .
5 So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change .
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