Example sentences of "it be charles [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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1 | On landing , it was Charles who carried the baby-basket off the plane and the nanny carried the bags . |
2 | Luckily , it was Charles who answered the telephone . |
3 | And it was Charles who went on , ‘ Do n't you think you 've done enough traipsing around the world ? |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |