Example sentences of "who [pers pn] [be] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got the shock of his life when he found out who I was and asked if my mother knew I was there . |
| 2 | This man had known exactly who she was and had taken the trouble to speak in English . |
| 3 | As one peasant from a resettled community said , ‘ it makes you proud of who you are and keeps you changing ’ . |
| 4 | Most law centres will seek to refer on any personal injury work and you should make sure that the advisers know who you are and think well of you . |
| 5 | He will say that he has duties to attend to and then , looking at the adventurers , will ask who they are and become confused again . |
| 6 | I think if you 've got somebody who 's got a er a solicitor or an accountant then you need to establish why he wants to talk to them and also er if he , if he 's adamant that he wants to do that , find out who he is and ask if you can speak to him as well , or you can explain erm you know what the , what , what you 're doing with the client . |
| 7 | The Russians obviously knew who he was and kept him under surveillance all the time . |
| 8 | Cornhill Insurance claimed they had no idea who he was and insisted they had no knowledge of his terrorist background at the time of his employment in 1990 . |
| 9 | Also , he found that whenever he moved into one group or another , the warren rabbits evidently knew who he was and treated him as the leader of the newcomers . |
| 10 | The spokesman added : ‘ The weapon was being discharged , but he must have noticed what was going on because he rang up saying who he was and apologised . |
| 11 | He may have been called ‘ Bubbles ’ because of his corpulence , his high spirits and his weakness for champagne , but he knew who he was and considered the whole business of being in FI , and being taken seriously in it , as something of a lark . |
| 12 | picks up the phone not knowing who it is and says Santa 's Grotto it is funny is n't it ? |
| 13 | She knew now who it was and stood waiting in the hall until Greg joined her . |