Example sentences of "who [pron] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From everything she says , it 's clear this gilgul 's been on the scene for quite a while — there is no way she could have learned what she 's learned , cleaned up her act and become who she is now if the only time she 's had to do it in was the brief interval between our confrontation at the Mephistco stand and her appearance on the beach at Bournemouth . |
| 2 | At home rewards are ‘ ascriptive ’ , depending on who one is rather than on what one does . |
| 3 | Thus the Metropolitan Commissioner 's testimony to a brand of tyre as a major contribution to road safety carries weight because of who he is rather than what he looks like . |
| 4 | Someone paid them good money , a lot of money , to do that — this so-called ‘ friend ’ they mentioned — so if I were you I 'd be trying to work out who he is rather than getting on my soapbox . |
| 5 | He does n't even know who he is any longer . ’ |
| 6 | Sally knows who he is though , although he 's never looked after her . |
| 7 | The people who may need it most are likely to be the unrecognized ones , the ones who it is somehow felt do not have a ‘ right ’ to support , even if it is known that they are upset . |
| 8 | However , the poem that opens the volume , ‘ Ego Dominus Tuus ’ , is in the form of an inconclusive dialogue between two persons ‘ Hic ’ and ‘ Ille ’ , who it is generally agreed might as well be named at certain points as ‘ Ez ’ and ‘ Willie ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ But I 'll discover who it is soon ! ’ |
| 10 | Includes the decidedly strange ‘ Urban Bells ’ from Passion Flower ( no , I du n no who it is either ) and Westbam 's ‘ Mr Peanut ’ , a chirpy , bizarre record from the originator of German techno , guaranteed to send your brain running for the exit . |
| 11 | ‘ You know who it is then ? |
| 12 | They all know who it is then do they ? |
| 13 | Or who it is really . |