Example sentences of "[verb] that it be [pron] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My lord , I have good reason to know that it was you who said a word for me in his Grace 's ear , and gave me this day for thought , and even offered me arguments I was not wise enough to find for myself . |
| 2 | Especially when they are tipped that it was you who topped him . ’ |
| 3 | People forget that it was they who freed the country from Pol Pot , otherwise many more would have died than the one million who were starved , tortured , and executed between 1975-78 . |
| 4 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 5 | When questioned , Mason , the carpenter , agreed that it was he who had raised the flag , but said that he had done so because he had been prematurely informed of the relief of Mafeking . |
| 6 | ‘ It does n't take a psychologist to see that it 's you who 's running . ’ |
| 7 | After my fourth or fifth lesson I was able to see that it was I who was causing myself the discomfort . |
| 8 | If we resent this ( as we should ) , we ought to realize that it is we who are to blame for it . |
| 9 | They treated him like one of them , complimenting him on his astuteness , until he began to genuinely believe that it was he who had selected Node Check , that he was an expert on account trading before he 'd learned anything about the stock market in general . |
| 10 | ‘ I understand that it was you who found your brother 's body ? ’ |
| 11 | I could see that Estella was still proud , and I knew that it was she who made me feel ashamed of home , and Joe , but I also knew that I could never stop loving her . |
| 12 | On her return she knew that it was he who had plucked the sting but she was afraid that too demonstrative a show of gratitude might be misinterpreted . |
| 13 | You have admitted that it was I who caused all the evidence to fall into a pattern . |
| 14 | The music is lost , but Cavalieri 's contemporaries agree that it was he who , as Peri put it in the preface to his Euridice ( 1600 ) , ‘ before anyone else made our music ’ ( i.e. the ‘ nuova maniera di canto ’ ) ‘ heard on the stage ’ . |
| 15 | However , you need to be able to establish and prove that it was you who created the copyright . |
| 16 | However , before these ‘ middle class ’ witches invite Christians to work with them , it would seem that it is they who really need to ‘ try and understand us and get to know what we believe ’ . |
| 17 | But setting her misgivings about Tommaso himself aside , Caterina decided that she had been quite wrong to think that it was she who had caught his attention . |
| 18 | I distinctly said that it was I who required the tuition . |
| 19 | The usual instruction was to ‘ provide what is customary ’ , though this attitude led to extreme financial hardship for the poorer classes , though it would not be unreasonable to say that it was they who helped to perpetuate the meaningless and elaborate ritual well into the early decades of the twentieth century . |
| 20 | No one can say that it was I who insisted on having someone in . |
| 21 | To assert that the knave of hearts was the person who stole the tarts is not to assert that one believes that it was he who stole them . |
| 22 | Although the parents are primarily responsible for establishing the norms in such relationships , the eldest child can find that it is she/he who bears most or all of the responsibility because the parents themselves are , like those of many anorexics , either relatively or completely isolated . |