Example sentences of "[noun sg] it was [adv] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the outset of our friendship it was always Brian who exploded and damn the consequences . |
| 2 | Though he was always in evidence it was invariably Madame who did all the talking , giving orders , fussing around clients , so that Paula was never quite certain what his role was . |
| 3 | They was all in bed it was only Joseph who was up when I come out but he was nearly gone up . |
| 4 | And just in case it was not Magellan who & t uttered the word , then perhaps it was Pigafetta : ‘ We debouched from that Strait , ’ he later wrote , ‘ engulfing ourselves in the Pacific Sea . ’ |
| 5 | By coincidence it was also Epstein who brought Modigliani together with a woman writer who was to have a profound effect upon his life — Beatrice Hastings . |
| 6 | And I had a catalogue the other day from a , an environmental erm agency it was n't Greenpeace it was something like that that were ac actually now offering these soap savers that we used to have in the war to press your bits of soap into Magazines were full of tips for saving fuel . |
| 7 | In the end it was not Ethel who boycotted the wedding , but Alice . |
| 8 | ‘ You really think there 's a possibility it was n't Kemp who rang ? ’ |
| 9 | Half the time it was n't Clemence she was getting at — it was me . |
| 10 | This time it was not Ana who took her breath away . |