Example sentences of "[noun sg] it was [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so he 'd left London , to come here , hoping to lick the closing wise wound of whatever talent it was he had . |
| 2 | ‘ I told the lock-keeper it was yours . |
| 3 | In his dream it was he who was driving home to Nunes from Colchester , not Goblander though , but the car he had now , the Granada . |
| 4 | He had gathered her closer in his arms , he was holding her so tightly that she could n't tell whose heartbeat it was she felt throbbing within her bones , his or hers . |
| 5 | During all the long years of the war it was she who kept up the morale of all of us , especially my father , who went through many difficult times . |
| 6 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 7 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 8 | And so throughout this period it was them er trying importance upon these two goals . |
| 9 | The greatest composer in the world , if he lacks an interpreter to suit him , is like a man prevented from speaking by a gag ; and this evening it was you who acted as the interpreter to untie the gag , the messenger to carry the good news . |
| 10 | poor shop it was it 's just like |
| 11 | He was an Englishman , she said , an associate of her father , who 'd come across for years on whatever business it was he did . |
| 12 | Yes it was nice we we did lots of entertaining and and things like that it was really good fun it was it was fun . |
| 13 | Janet shared the stage with the pop group Slade , but next day it was her who made all the headlines . |
| 14 | Yes , I mean if if by any chance that was passed , I do n't think it is if if by any chance it was it would just be the same as the amendment we had . |
| 15 | And whatever lump it was they said was n't anything to worry about . |
| 16 | Few would argue , though , that the most important person in the history of West Indies cricket was Frank Worrell , for as the first regular black captain it was he who united all the old discordant factions and created one of the most glorious of teams . |
| 17 | If anyone had the right to place the bolt it was him . |
| 18 | How can yu do dis , in de past it was you , |
| 19 | Erm n I as I say I could n't see her the bed it was it was a duvet and . |
| 20 | In each case it was he who sent ‘ the flying prince ’ away , beside making another try and dropping a goal in England 's sensational 13–0 victory . |
| 21 | There was a gang of us , but I mean er if one of us got involved with a fight it was him and him . |
| 22 | ROBBIE Just my luck it was her , and not you . |
| 23 | Of course it was her ! |
| 24 | And of course it was her ! |
| 25 | Of course it was me . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course it was me . |
| 27 | ‘ My angel , ’ Alain said huskily , stroking back her fair hair , ‘ of course it was me . |
| 28 | Of course it was him that had messed up his diary , drawing those stupid pictures in it . |
| 29 | They thought they saw the Lady Eleanor cloaked and hooded , but of course it was you . |
| 30 | After all , in this field it was she and not Luke Hunter who was the expert . |