Example sentences of "who [verb] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were people inside , but the only person to come to the door was a woman , who checked it was locked . |
| 2 | The farmer who sold it was happy to rid himself of a wreck which was no more than a dangerous playground . |
| 3 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 4 | If you made a Day of the Dead cake at home you always hid a coin in it , and the person who found it was supposed to live for ever . |
| 5 | I do n't agree with people who say it was just a leadership personality cult effort . |
| 6 | Amongst those who disagreed it was frequently asserted that the provision of a sealed form 53 prior to completion might facilitate rather than hinder the commission of a fraud . |
| 7 | And also you 'll like it because the cardinal who designed it was a practical joker and built in all sorts of extremely infantile jokes so that he could spray water onto his innocent friends while they were eating their dinner or trying to watch little masques . |
| 8 | This has been confirmed in England ; for example by a teacher in Manchester who believed it was caused in her sample by a phonic bias in the teaching . |
| 9 | The man who opened it was Abul Ismail the physician . |
| 10 | Success for the few who achieved it was often bought at the cost of Korean ties and identity . |
| 11 | Our opinion survey in Chapter 6 showed that most voters felt television news on both networks was unbiased ; but amongst the minority who felt it was biased a majority thought it was biased towards the Conservatives and against both Labour and the Alliance . |
| 12 | However , once a number of additional begging letters — requests for interviews — were sent , it became apparent that there were a substantial number of Diana 's ‘ inner circle ’ who felt it was time to set her record straight . |
| 13 | The optimism of the Section 's paper , summed up in its conclusion that ‘ we are finally coming to understand the governing tendencies of the economic mechanism ’ , was rejected by the Treasury , who felt it was ‘ academic and dangerous ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ She was in hospital for six weeks , and I was the only one who knew it was n't an accident . |
| 15 | The guy who owns it was shouting all kinds of stuff and he let it slip . |
| 16 | One social worker completed the schedule on two occasions with a sixteen-year-old boy who thought it was ‘ great fun ’ . |
| 17 | Nicholson 's interest in writing was re-awakened by his scriptwriting assistance on The Terror , and his next project was a screenplay in which he was encouraged by Roger Corman , who thought it was a good idea because though he personally felt Nicholson showed great potential as an actor , others around him did not always agree . |
| 18 | Who thought it was a ‘ funny old world ’ ? |
| 19 | He derided those who thought it was ‘ all right to stay in opposition so long as your socialist heart is pure ’ , and argued it was not they who suffered , but the poor in Britain and in the third world : ‘ We are not just a debating society . |
| 20 | In a separate incident a bomblet killed another Corps member , Lance Corporal Terry Hill , 26 , who thought it was a lead weight . |
| 21 | Nearly one quarter ( 8/33 ) of those who had received the more comprehensive list of complications thought that they had been given ‘ too much ’ information , compared with just 6% ( 2/36 ) of those who had been given a simple explanation ( p=0.04 , Fisher 's exact test ) : anxiety scores did not differ significantly between patients who thought the amount of information given was too much and those who thought it was ‘ about right ’ ( data not shown ) . |
| 22 | Because I 've , I 've spoken to staff who , who thought it was awful but when chatted to them about it |
| 23 | They were people who thought It was important — and that it could make money . |
| 24 | We saw a lot of the Bakers , and did day trips ; one to the historic railway at Weka Pass ; another to Mt.Herbert , the highest point on Banks Peninsula ( wonderful views over Lyttleton Harbour ) and Pigeon Bay ; and several visits to local beaches at Sumner and Taylor 's Mistake ( a bay named after a captain who thought it was the entrance to Lyttleton Harbour ) . |
| 25 | Not really , no , er , we 've had several people in to examine it , who thought it was erm , you know , okay where it was , and as it stands . |
| 26 | Not bad for somebody who thought it was going to cost us money . |
| 27 | The only people who liked it was your kiddies . " |
| 28 | It was a mistake — the man who did it was exceeding his instructions . |
| 29 | The way it was policed and who policed it was similarly defined by national rather than local considerations . |
| 30 | About 60 Kurdish refugees tried to mount a demonstration in Terminal 2 but were led away by police who said it was illegal under airport by-laws . |