Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " And you might as well know that it was Paul who shot the fawn last night too , not me . " |
| 2 | Yet years on how come that it is Cecil who is regarded mostly as a flawed but well meaning sweety-pie and Miss Keays as someone who has all the charisma of an old battleaxe ? |
| 3 | Nobody mentioned that they were puppets themselves . |
| 4 | And the apologist who might wish to make Huxley the aggressor should know that one observer , the zoologist Alfred Newton , clearly reported that it was Huxley who had first been chaffed by the bishop . |
| 5 | And as we look over these next few minutes , we 'll consider that it was Pilate who rejected and who crucified the Lord Jesus . |
| 6 | First of all they say that if she thinks that they 're waxworks she should pay , and then they say that if she thinks that they are real , she should be talking to them . |
| 7 | It seemed to Annie that no sooner had Tamar arrived in the market hall , than Goodison was by her side , suggesting that it was time they started off for home . |
| 8 | Dame Sybil earned her everlasting gratitude by suggesting that it was time she retire . |
| 9 | The argument goes that it is women who are in fact doing all the reproducing of labour power and servicing other people 's escapes . |
| 10 | Both Gimbert and Lascubé argued that it was Griffiths who was responsible for the collapsed scrums , but obviously Gimbert 's inexperience played a part in his inability to work out a solution . |
| 11 | But Carol Wilson believed that it was Branson who was ‘ stalling ’ over giving her any control in the company . |
| 12 | Nokia Oy , Helsinki says that it is increase its capital base with an international placing of about $100m of new preference shares ; no details yet . |
| 13 | Taking an existentialist approach , he says that it is God who delivers us into freedom , which is not something which we can accomplish for ourselves . |
| 14 | Keynes has shown that he and his brothers , six of them according to Florence of Worcester , appear in the witness lists of royal charters for some time before 1006 ; but it was in 1007 that Eadric received his ealdormanry , and Florence says that it was Eadric who had Ælfhelm murdered and the king who blinded his sons . |
| 15 | Remembering that it was Wordsworth whom the Utilitarian John Stuart Mill turned to when he found that his philosophy produced nothing but visions of a grey and empty world , and that Matthew Arnold , after Wordsworth 's death , believed that he alone could heal human nature in the ‘ iron time ’ , the little poem that follows , written in 1833 , seems a convenient summing-up of Wordsworth 's mature attitudes . |
| 16 | She found herself walking along the road saying ‘ I 'll talk it all over with Alan when I get in — he 'll know what to do ’ , only to remember that it was Alan who was the cause of the heartache . |
| 17 | For a while afterwards , it seemed that it was Sean who had been cursed . |
| 18 | He picked up the sharp knife once more with a frown and growled at the meat as he diced it , imagining that it was Bessie he was carving up . |
| 19 | Regret not seeing Prague though she might , perhaps , she began to wonder whether it was time she returned to England . |
| 20 | But he had a lot to carry and it was time he went . |
| 21 | This shows that they are words you are mentioning , or borrowing from another type of discourse , rather than words which you are using " in your own voice " . |
| 22 | It is the projected activities , the group under E and F , which will concern us in this section , as we shall see that it is projection which protects the participants . |
| 23 | Now I do see that it is men who are having to learn what comes more naturally to us . |
| 24 | In his defence , the defendant claimed that it was T who had approached him and that he had not initiated the agreement . |
| 25 | Each time we went to bed , you 'd realize that it was Andrew I wanted to lay with . |
| 26 | Recall that it was three-year-olds who had difficulty with Flavell 's appearance-versus-reality problems ; and indeed further experiments have shown that there is a strong statistical correlation between performance on the appearance-reality and on the false belief task . |
| 27 | All his friends know that it was Howard who did the Matterhorn , in spite of his modesty , because Prue Chase makes a point of telling everyone . |
| 28 | And erm we 've got this big rally er which a fortnight ago Julie suggested that we had a rally I think she thought er you know that it was time we a the public profile up sort of thing . |
| 29 | Yesterday we discovered that it is Portugal which dictates the pace now . |
| 30 | Then she discovered that it was Travis she had to thank that the news of her engagement to his cousin was all over Vasey 's , as , still smiling , he stated , ‘ Hope you do n't mind , Naylor , but I came in earlier to have a quick word with Leith , and could n't resist telling her assistant that a possible reason for Leith being late this morning could be her getting engaged to you at the weekend . ’ |