Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pers pn] was [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It took us a couple of years to persuade the council that it was their fault not ours . |
| 2 | But sleep came unawares , for he was woken by Luib in the dark and told by the peppery old Myrcan that it was his watch , and that Corrary was on after him . |
| 3 | Yanto and Billy heard the blonde tell the landlord that it was her birthday as she ordered the drinks . |
| 4 | And he obviously did n't know and it was n't public knowledge that it was his wife that was |
| 5 | ’ When he told me this morning that I was his prisoner , not his … not anything else , he left two Gharrgoyles to guard me . |
| 6 | ‘ I understand from the Echo man that it was your paper in Nature that put him onto the track , ’ Kegan said maliciously . |
| 7 | It was , if you like to put it that way , it was a status that it was your district . ’ |
| 8 | On the death of her father in 1866 she suffered physical and mental breakdown , confiding in a letter that it was her religion that held her up . |
| 9 | She might have extracted Simon 's solemn oath that if she attended as he wished , the pretence that she was his girlfriend would be dropped for once and for all , but was that the whole reason ? |
| 10 | From the facial resemblance there was no doubt that he was her son . |
| 11 | I also visited the scene of the crime at Ayr , and had several lunches and dinners with the diminutive , widowed but friendly Mr Ross ; while an interview with the horrible Waddell in a Glasgow pub left me in no doubt that he was his attacker . |
| 12 | Mam would n't say anything because she did n't want to throw it in his face that it was her money going down his throat . |
| 13 | And I saw one man the fact that he was me uncle do n't make any difference , but he was , and and he was very religious , very Christian man , S Sunday School superintendent . |
| 14 | Something about the way he approached the Saab 900 Carlsson suggested that he still likes to put his foot down : perhaps it was the way his right elbow automatically felt for a resting place against the window , perhaps it was just the fact that it was his birthday ( 42 ) . |