Example sentences of "was [noun] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Ian who persuaded my father to let me go on to Cambridge , which I did a year after Ian . |
| 2 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 3 | Well I do n't care it was Dan who pushed her , and Dan was pushed round . |
| 4 | It was Wilde who christened her the ‘ Sphinx ’ , the name by which she was thereafter known to her friends . |
| 5 | If Jennie ordered baths to be taken it was William who escorted them , gave them soap and a towel and waited for them to come out . |
| 6 | Cambridge United and Middlesbrough were unable to break the deadlock in the first half of their match , but Taylor gave Cambridge the lead after sixty seven minutes and it was Taylor who made it two nil fifteen minutes from time to give Cambridge a memorable victory . |
| 7 | Yes and it was Ramsey you called him . |
| 8 | Eventually , it was David who found him a good ship and carefully guided him through the process . |
| 9 | I wish it was Friday I want it to be the weekend man . |
| 10 | But it was Friday she did it , and Thursday we were expecting her , so there would have been time when she had . |
| 11 | It always makes me think because last time we saw an accident like that it was Penny you know what I mean ? |
| 12 | And I think it was Kipling who said he had six serving maids Who , What , Where , Why , When and How . |
| 13 | I know it was fear which held you back . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't suppose it was Wordsworth who wrote it . ’ |
| 15 | It was Pete who turned it into a car . ’ |
| 16 | It was Fergus who suggested I should ask you about LaMotte . ’ |
| 17 | She revealed it was Alan who took her under his wing when she first joined the cast as a relatively inexperienced actress . |
| 18 | The Lebanese man in the dock says he was invited back to the flat , and it was Kim who threatened him with a knife . |
| 19 | She looked slowly from one to the other , and it was Shannon who shook her head . |
| 20 | It was Sayeeda who gave me an insatiable desire to open the doors of Oman , doors which were locked to most foreigners and needed a special key . |
| 21 | It was Robert who took her in to dinner . |
| 22 | On the final lap it was Robert who beat his brother to the Metropole corner , after the 180mph descent from Coleraine . |
| 23 | And I do n't know it was truth he said I 'm just collecting all the mole skins for somebody 's mo For a coat , but that was just a story I think . |
| 24 | It was republicans who argued their case , not those who took monarchy for granted . |
| 25 | It was Morris who encouraged him to go to London , recommending him to J. D. Sedding [ q.v. ] , the church architect . |
| 26 | It was Jackson who did his best to avoid such things . |
| 27 | ‘ It was Mona who put me in touch with you to be honest . ’ |
| 28 | It was Ibu who told us that her husband was terrified of the water . |
| 29 | Yes Moderator I think it was Mr who drew my attention yesterday |
| 30 | No excuses , no explanations — it was Trudy who told me why . |