Example sentences of "[pers pn] [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not remind him that it was I who had replaced the newspaper with mended panes and the sacking with curtains . |
| 2 | Sadly it was n't I who had pasted them up . |
| 3 | This time it was an inspector I who had come looking for the wing commander , his sergeant and his constable . |
| 4 | As it was I who had spoken , my mother responded sharply . |
| 5 | It was I who had introduced Thessy to McIllvanney and who had secured him the job with Cutwater , but Bonefish had only allowed his son into the wide wicked world because of his trust in me . |
| 6 | Perkin knew it was I who had remembered that the floorboards should have floated , and on Monday he 'd seen the plank on the dining-room table and heard Doone and me talking in close private consultation . |
| 7 | When I faltered as the realization hit me that it was n't Mum who 'd neglected me , but I who 'd neglected Mum , Pyke said gently , ‘ I think you may like to be in my next production . ’ |
| 8 | Of course , ’ he added with a twisted smile , ‘ it was n't until your last day in the office that I realised you were under the impression that it was I who 'd had the affair with Elise . ’ |
| 9 | That I who have held first place for eight years should be asked to take a secondary position . ’ |
| 10 | The poster said : ‘ All ye who have sinned , enter here ’ and a bright girl had written underneath : ‘ All ye who have not sinned , ring Maida Vale 123456 ’ . ’ |
| 11 | The older ones among them who had heard similar harangues before had already sensed they were about to experience some harshening of their conditions . |
| 12 | If someone did n't own up to it , he 'd get all of them who had used that particular hut over the previous month , trying to find who had used that bandage and not reported it . |
| 13 | I could n't get it out of them who had paid for her , but old Alex the cleaner told me on the side : Boswell , Slim Boswell . ’ |
| 14 | When people said they had noticed a Labour or Conservative politician other than Thatcher or Kinnock we asked them who had caught their attention . |
| 15 | This expedition , in addition to proving a new method of jungle warfare , did another great thing for British troops : it convinced them of the friendliness of the people of Burma , for many of them who had fought through the 1942 campaign had prejudiced memories of those hard days . |
| 16 | It was written out of deep respect for the victims and their kin , and The Smiths felt it was an important enough song to put on their last single even though it had already been released on L.P. In a word it is a memorial to the children and all like them who have sufferered such a fate . |
| 17 | England 's football managers , that is , all seven of them who have held the post since the war plus highlights of very England match since the war too . |
| 18 | I 've had many students who 've done this in front of me who 've started off by saying , my client is not a criminal . |
| 19 | I took a friend with me who had caught chub only from the river Dane where the average size was 1½lb . |
| 20 | It was me who cut her ropes and killed the men aboard her , and it 's me who has sailed her to a place where you 'll never find her . |
| 21 | Feasibility dependent on recce. by R.A.F. officer accompanying me who has decided L.G. [ Landing Ground ] to be O.K. Will make further arrangements direct with R.A.F. as Eighth Army by error apparently not informed . |
| 22 | You would argue with me who have taught here for twenty years you , you , Gwendoline turned and fled . |
| 23 | Tells me who 's got shoes and hat and coat and everything . |
| 24 | You know me who 's got out of all the others , well |
| 25 | I do n't know how much he 's paying , I do n't even know if he wants to do it yet , it 's me who 's got to talk to firms |
| 26 | It 's me who 's brought your breakfast to you . |
| 27 | Perhaps someone had told him it was she who 'd informed the assassin Zambia was here . |
| 28 | Although Aunt Violet was n't often rude about other people ( she explained to Alice that Catholics were not allowed to be uncharitable ) , it was she who 'd remarked : ‘ Just a little bit vulgar . |
| 29 | There was some difference that she could not at first put her finger on , and then at last it came to her ; it was she who had said ‘ We shall go ’ and their presence in the forest had flowed from that . |
| 30 | And it was she who had said ‘ This is the way ’ and their arrival at this spot at the moment the friar was being attacked had flowed from that . |