Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] [pos pn] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's my opinion we both ought to be glad for that . ’ |
| 2 | Old George Mulverin has died , and it 's his son you 'll find there . |
| 3 | The largest 25 producers account for more than 50% of the area planted and it is their names which are most often seen on merchant 's lists . |
| 4 | And it is our behaviour which is the visible expression of our new life in Christ . |
| 5 | That heart is Welsh , and it is his Welshness which gave him an inner security that enabled him to come this far . |
| 6 | Boyd Orr 's malnourished population was drawn almost entirely from this section of the working class and it was their lives which changed little during the inter-war years as Carl Chinn , and other writers have noted . |
| 7 | However , some of the Holkham tenants , almost in reaction to their landlord 's introduction of the alien West Country breed , decided to combine their native Norfolk and Suffolk types as being more suitable to the region and it was their efforts which , by 1810 , produced by the first selectively bred combinations of the horned Norfolk meat types and the polled dairy Suffolk in the Norfolk and Suffolk Poll . |
| 8 | Yet I was still living amongst those who flourished in the world , and it was their food I used to eat . |
| 9 | She says they were bad owners and it was their fault his dad died . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Though you might also think about saying sorry to Hamish and Antonia , too , as you were their guest and it was their party you brought grinding to an embarrassing halt . |
| 11 | She listens to him more than anyone , and it was his will which prevailed when she composed last year 's Christmas speech , in which she made it clear that she would never abdicate . |
| 12 | We talked a lot during those months on the same bench together , and it was his influence which set me on the trade union path . |
| 13 | And I 'd look on the field and it was his brother who 'd been tackled . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And it was your grandmother who convinced you you were n't an ugly duckling , that you would grow up to be a swan ? ’ |
| 15 | Germany has taken on board much of the Social Charter but it is its economy we are all trying to match . ’ |
| 16 | He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’ |
| 17 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 18 | But it 's her house I mean they ai n't got no chi children or feel like saying to her whatever do you keep him there for . |
| 19 | I think they should get rid of the stigma in condoms , cos what frightens me is that in about ten years time my daughter will come and maybe ask if she can go on the pill and at least I can tell her no , use a condom there 's less chance of sexually transmitted diseases , but it 's my sons they wo n't come and ask . |
| 20 | But it 's my legs I 'm worried about — they feel like lumps of concrete . |
| 21 | His great serve and forehand are technical merits , but it 's his drive which singles him out . ’ |
| 22 | But it was their hostess who was the most elegant . |
| 23 | The success of these personalised clocks mean business is ticking along nicely for Graham and Julia Sale , but it was their daughter who got them going . |
| 24 | All of them were richly dressed , but it was their hair which attracted Rostov 's attention at once . |
| 25 | On March 7th , against Wales at Twickenham , we all witnessed at least two acts of complete thuggery when not only were English players stamped on but it was their heads which came in for rough treatment . |
| 26 | Paige felt her heart thudding wildly in her chest , but it was her aunt who spoke first . |
| 27 | It did open , at seven minutes past , but it was her father who entered the kitchen . |
| 28 | There was an urgency about the way he moved which caught Alice 's attention , but it was her husband who spoke first . |
| 29 | He broke all records , but it was my mother who filled in the forms . |
| 30 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |