Example sentences of "[to-vb] 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 | ‘ It does n't take a psychologist to see that it 's you who 's running . ’ |
| 3 | After my fourth or fifth lesson I was able to see that it was I who was causing myself the discomfort . |
| 4 | If we resent this ( as we should ) , we ought to realize that it is we who are to blame for it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |