Example sentences of "it be [pron] [noun sg] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those Celtic supporters who have had to tread a thin line between desperation and devastation this season , there was no inclination to do anything other than wallow in it being their team who had put an end to Rangers long , unbeaten run . |
| 2 | No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six . |
| 3 | It 's her brother who 's the problem . ’ |
| 4 | . And i the the lady who runs the personnel department , it 's her husband who on the ship . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's his wife who 's upset about the way things are going . ’ |
| 6 | It 's his wife who normally does things . |
| 7 | They said their lives had been ruined , but Mr Lanaghan says it 's his family who 've really suffered |
| 8 | It 's your nephew who 's got all the explaining to do . |
| 9 | Has it not occurred to you that it 's your father who dissuades Matthew from making friends of his own age … talks him out of seeking other work ? |
| 10 | Normally it 's your doctor who makes the appointment . ’ |
| 11 | However , it should be remembered that whilst the master policy will refer to the financial institution as the ‘ Policyholder ’ it is their client who is our insured customer . |
| 12 | This comes only when , after a lowering of tension , the boys are summoned from London to the newly constituted Samavia and Marco , expecting to see his father as a loyal subject near the throne , is rewarded to the full for his devoted service , as he realises it is his father who is the restored King . |
| 13 | It is your husband-to-be who declares ( or will declare , and of course I may misquote ) that poets are mirrors of the tremendous shadows which futurity casts upon the present , and the unacknowledged legislators of the world . |
| 14 | If it is your mother-in-law who has come to live with you , even greater efforts will usually be required on both sides if there is to be peaceful co-existence , for this is always a challenging relationship ( there are not too many Ruths and Naomis around ) . |
| 15 | One Afro-Caribbean mother in my study , who was living on benefits with her partner , described how it was her grandmother who bought her daughter 's shoes , while her mother |
| 16 | It was just a place where she had been left , and as she grew out of infancy she knew that it was her mother who had left her there . |
| 17 | It was her mother who had done wrong . |
| 18 | She knew then it was her mother who must have been hurt . |
| 19 | It was her mother who had told her about Timothy 's frequent visits to the village of Yelton , and Tipper who had confirmed her mistress 's story , adding that Amsterdam was a gormless idiot and Topaz Chilcott a dirty slut . |
| 20 | It did open , at seven minutes past , but it was her father who entered the kitchen . |
| 21 | And when Sam was snapped topless in Majorca , it was her father who struggled with a photographer to try to save her honour . |
| 22 | So why was it and how come that Madame was claiming that the opposite was true and that it was her father who was the person out of favour ? |
| 23 | Her own parents had played such a game , but in their case it was her father who had played the mild , the foolish role . |
| 24 | It was her father who brought colour to her cheeks by saying simply , ‘ Lori , do n't you think it 's time you grew up ? |
| 25 | In both characters ' lives it was mainly men who had oppressed them , for Phyllisia it was her father who preferred her sister , Ruby . |
| 26 | Training to be a teacher and with a wisdom that belied her years , she explained that it was her half-brother who was now living in Mainz and had suggested that Erich ( the Dusseldorfer ) travel down to Tonga to look for a wife . |
| 27 | Paige felt her heart thudding wildly in her chest , but it was her aunt who spoke first . |
| 28 | Katherine started awake , confused for a single moment , images of the dream in which she had shot John Lewis still vivid behind her eyes — except now when she raised the gun and pulled the trigger , it was her son who spun away , red blossoming on his shirt . |
| 29 | There was an urgency about the way he moved which caught Alice 's attention , but it was her husband who spoke first . |
| 30 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |