Example sentences of "it [be] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 The two went into a long drinking session , and the end of it was that he bought the man 's seventeen-year-old daughter outright , with the last of his grant .
2 It was after he broke the engagement that the real craziness started .
3 Walter Robins told him it was because he antagonised the fasties by doffing his cap after evading a bouncer ( Randall used to infuriate Lillee in this way ) ; Barrington , though , was only being his naturally jolly self .
4 I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit .
5 It was because he liked the idea of death , because he wanted to talk about it .
6 Tug had forgotten what day it was until he heard the bells .
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