Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] it [be] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Or perhaps it is Claudine you do not like ? ’
2 Thalberg was interested but thought that it was not quite MGM 's thing as that studio was moving away from its earlier interest in realistic films towards glossier entertainment , and eventually it was Chaplin who arranged the film 's release through United Artists , although Vidor had to mortgage his every possession before firm backing was achieved .
3 And so it was Emily who , if all that had been said about herself and George was true , would miss him most and she was absent from the funeral .
4 John is n't satisfied with it , we are bogged down , and finally it is Campbell who comes up with a plausible route through drunken , volatile shifts of feeling .
5 And maybe it 's time we punctured
6 My mum sa , and then it was dad me .
7 And yet it was persons who died in such numbers , without ever necessarily subscribing to the consequences of their own actions .
8 Dalglish said : ‘ We have played worse than that this season , but now it 's time we pulled our socks up . ’
9 Of course during the previous factional struggles it had been Trotsky who had been accused of advocating policies which would have led to a split between the working class and peasantry , but now it was Stalin who was in Bukharin 's sights .
10 Understandably thinking that he had achieved an odd escape , declarer gleefully played off three rounds of diamonds to discard his losing club , but now it was West who took the setting trick when he was able to ruff .
11 Peterborough have been looking increasingly like first division fodder but today it was Birmingham who were left scrabbling around for crumbs and there were n't too many of them .
12 But surely it 's time he was here … ’
13 But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) .
14 It should have been just the incentive Ipswich needed to take control of the game but instead it was Newcastle who went in at half-time leading .
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