Example sentences of "[pers pn] [Wh pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Northcliffe once wrote , God made people read so that I could fill their brain with facts and later tell them whom to love and whom to hate and what to think . |
| 2 | But worse still , just as the Poet and the Mistress connived at each other 's deception in 138 , just as the Poet connived at the Friend 's deception in 93 , so in 112 the Poet is inviting the Friend to complete the circle : ‘ For what care I who calls me well or ill , /So you o'er-green my bad , my good allow ? ’ |
| 3 | Was it I who persuaded you to fly from your home ? |
| 4 | I shall die with that feeling of guilt , that it was I who robbed him of life . ’ |
| 5 | You have admitted that it was I who caused all the evidence to fall into a pattern . |
| 6 | ‘ It was I who carried you to your bed . |
| 7 | It is not I who resist the system , as Kierkegaard thought ; it is the other . |
| 8 | ‘ He ate little and it was I who brought him food . |
| 9 | It was I who brought the Ildana 's Spear , fleeing from Gorias . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Sir George called it a ‘ ripping idea , ’ and he must know I need a chaperone so he can hardly object if I take you , since it was I who brought you ! ’ |
| 11 | It was I who raised it again , with my magic art — summoning it back to sight here on my island . |
| 12 | I was surprised that he should sound so definite : it was usually I who pinned down occasions with that sort of fact . |
| 13 | Perkin knew it was I who had remembered that the floorboards should have floated , and on Monday he 'd seen the plank on the dining-room table and heard Doone and me talking in close private consultation . |
| 14 | It was I who had introduced Thessy to McIllvanney and who had secured him the job with Cutwater , but Bonefish had only allowed his son into the wide wicked world because of his trust in me . |
| 15 | Coconut palms , mangroves and many unidentified trees confused me considerably , I who had been used to nothing taller than a stunted elder bush in a croft garden ! |
| 16 | This is because I can always ask ‘ Would I still prescribe that action if it was I who had that desire ? ’ |
| 17 | I did not remind him that it was I who had replaced the newspaper with mended panes and the sacking with curtains . |
| 18 | As it was I who had spoken , my mother responded sharply . |
| 19 | It was not , alas , I who had been inadvertently left alone for two minutes in an antechamber where by chance lay the plan of the Althaus plumbing system — to prove , as so much that is missing does , the crucial piece of evidence when , later , people were trying to fit together the events that fired the conflagration of the civilised world . |
| 20 | Sadly it was n't I who had pasted them up . |
| 21 | This time it was an inspector I who had come looking for the wing commander , his sergeant and his constable . |
| 22 | No one can say that it was I who insisted on having someone in . |
| 23 | It was I who cared for her murdered child through his last days . ’ |
| 24 | Ariel was saying to Sycorax , ‘ Remember , you loved me once , it was I who ran away from you , I did n't understand , I could n't see ahead . |
| 25 | ‘ I was close to your father during his great crisis , ’ she said , ‘ and it was I who led him astray . |
| 26 | ‘ Then let's say it was I who felt embarrassed ! ’ |
| 27 | After all it was I who recommended them to use Nadirpur . ’ |
| 28 | School and college for Robert divided us anyway , and it was Ann and I who spent all our time together . |
| 29 | Your ideas are rather undeveloped and ignorant and , after all , it was I who saw the solicitor . |
| 30 | Several plain-clothes detectives went further and telephoned a commentator on commercially-owned Ulster Television and asked to be quoted as anonymous detectives in the police division responsible for Rathcoole I who knew that no evidence whatsoever existed against the men arrested . |