Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] be [noun prp] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | And as we look over these next few minutes , we 'll consider that it was Pilate who rejected and who crucified the Lord Jesus . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But Carol Wilson believed that it was Branson who was ‘ stalling ’ over giving her any control in the company . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For a while afterwards , it seemed that it was Sean who had been cursed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Each time we went to bed , you 'd realize that it was Andrew I wanted to lay with . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yesterday we discovered that it is Portugal which dictates the pace now . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Despite warnings , Mrs Thatcher stressed her leadership role in Europe , saying that it was Britain which had put up an alternative scheme to the Delors plan and had taken the initiative over the idea of associate EC status for East Germany . |
| 18 | Despite warnings , Mrs Thatcher stressed her leadership role in Europe , saying that it was Britain which had put up an alternative scheme to the Delors plan and had taken the initiative over the idea of associate EC status for East Germany . |
| 19 | They reinstated the waltz with Gesner and it was observed that it was Therese who was the light , lithe dancer , whirling around the stage , pulling Gesner with her , making him dance in spite of himself . |
| 20 | But gradually it emerges that it is Michael who is the real success . |
| 21 | Hugh Kenner is no doubt right to suppose that it was Pound who had been thinking of it . |
| 22 | Blanche did not want to mention that it was Capron who had forbidden Urquhart to meet her again . |
| 23 | For reasons which baffle me , the referee thought that it was Gimbert who was pulling down the scrum . |
| 24 | She thought that it was Matey who had encouraged Dr Neil to become a doctor and take up an East End practice . |
| 25 | Her mouth opened and shut ; then looking at Maggie she said , ‘ You silly daft lump , I thought you were joking and it was Simon you had brought back . ’ |
| 26 | Then he remembered that it was Volkov who was being unfaithful . |
| 27 | It would seem that it was Hazelden who sold to the planners at MEHQ the idea of delivering a final knock-out blow to the two main German supply ports , Tobruk and Benghazi . |
| 28 | Louis responded to these totally unjustified demands by arguing that it was Henry who had broken the agreement by keeping Alice in his custody for far too long . |
| 29 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 30 | The same month , a United Nations commission , set up as part of the peace agreement , said that it was d'Aubuisson who had arranged the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980 . |