Example sentences of "it be charles [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next time the phone rings it 's Charles Aught . |
| 2 | It was Charles himself , in his last , disastrous agreement with the Scots , who proposed , however insincerely , the temporary replacement of episcopacy by Presbyterianism as the State religion . |
| 3 | It was Charles himself , reviving the practice of Christian Roman emperors , who arranged for the annual commemoration of his " nativity in this world on 13 June " at a number of ecclesiastical centres . |
| 4 | On landing , it was Charles who carried the baby-basket off the plane and the nanny carried the bags . |
| 5 | Luckily , it was Charles who answered the telephone . |
| 6 | And it was Charles who went on , ‘ Do n't you think you 've done enough traipsing around the world ? |
| 7 | It was Charles who answered quietly , ‘ Oh , about times past when we were young and silly and , at Christmas , what we were going to get in our stockings . |
| 8 | It was Charles who , by barring Cumberland 's way forward , really dictated the site , a stretch of open moorland about 500 feet [ 150 m ] above sea level , between the Moray Firth and the River Nairn , five miles [ 8 km ] east of Inverness , known to the Scots as Drummossie Moor . |
| 9 | In Dhondt 's view , Charles was the arch-squanderer of the fisc , his reign the critical period in the formation of territorial hereditary principalities in what would become France , for it was Charles who allowed the amassing of countships and once-royal estates by great regional magnates . |