Example sentences of "[noun] it [be] [noun prp] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I failed in some aspects it was Tom Bradley who failed . |
| 2 | While Rush ended the night as the hero it was Paul Stewart who got Liverpool going . |
| 3 | When they drew up beside the little band it was Alice Mair who opened the car door and spoke . |
| 4 | They went to bed and when Lavinia woke in the night it was Timothy Gedge she thought of , not her lost child . |
| 5 | During these activities it was Fraser Muirhead who remained my constant friend and companion . |
| 6 | Of course it was Roger Rabbit who , last year , brought animated feature films back from the dead . |
| 7 | In the end it was Harry Dunstaple who approached him with a really sensible idea . |
| 8 | In the nineteenth century it was Richard Wagner whose extraordinary ambition it was to make a complete artistic environment , in which the arts would blend . |
| 9 | This year it was St Albans who took the initiative with Jenny Hillyard scoring after two minutes . |
| 10 | Rev. Levitt 's antipathy sprang from the fact that when he was ill or needed a break in the non-stop Day of Atonement services it was Percy Lovitch who deputised for him , his tall corpulent figure seeming to fill the small pulpit and his exquisite tenor voice quite outshining Rev. Levitt 's pedestrian baritone . |
| 11 | This time it was Caesar Zamora who felt the weight of Wayne 's punches in a lively four round contest the aggressive young Ulsterman won clearly on points . |
| 12 | In fact it was Les Phillips who threaded the ball through to Martin Foyle , and he had a marvellous game for United in the heart of their engine room , and just five minutes later , United almost equalised . |