Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once I have the thing and make it available , and say here is the gift that I promised it 's yours , it 's available , then , all you have to do is come and take it . |
| 2 | To make matters even more wretched than they already were , Celia cried both day and night and because of Liza 's deepening depression Harriet found it was she who was forced to bear the brunt of this , so much so that after a while she simply swept up baby and cot and took them into her own bedroom . |
| 3 | It was Allen he asked as though he believed it was he who had been responsible for the verderer 's disappearance . |
| 4 | Sister Bell threw herself over the body of the child , the repetitive tap of the bullets told us were we being especially dive-bombed , and shot up . |
| 5 | It was n't until she was really ill that I realised she was mine and I loved her more than anything . |
| 6 | He always claimed it was me , ’ |
| 7 | I guessed it was you immediately . ’ |
| 8 | George moved to stand on my foot just as Katy discovered a pound coin and Christopher yelled it was his . |
| 9 | And then when I went to talk to the sister , me , you know I fuck when I rang she was she had to have an operation on her knee , the whole kneecap was broke . |
| 10 | In fact when I er er periods started it was them that told me all about it not me mother and did n't never think then about st er sex or anything , not a thing , I was as innocent as day was born when I was eighteen . |
| 11 | Well I asked him was he alright and he said aye , and then I fell asleep , I 've been sleeping from after eight twenty past eight . |
| 12 | You , I thought you are you just start getting the shakes by the window again were n't you ? |
| 13 | No I thought you was you were reading them off as you |
| 14 | I thought you were her . ’ |
| 15 | I just thought she was she 's got a cold and Shelly was very quiet , did n't say a word . |
| 16 | I thought we were you know , working up there . |
| 17 | He felt they were his . |
| 18 | I thought they were they were n't too bad , I did n't like them |
| 19 | That meant it was mine for keeps . |
| 20 | He came out of the library when he saw it was me , shook my hand and said ‘ Terrible thing , terrible thing ’ a few times , while Beethoven sounded loudly from the opened library door and his wife tutted and tried to smooth his errant hair . |
| 21 | " My husband just crumbled when I felt it was me that needed to crumble and somebody to help me . |
| 22 | For all his apparent virility , she felt it was he who should have been Harry 's mother . |
| 23 | ‘ I gathered it was you who had a previous acquaintance with him . ’ |
| 24 | She knew he was hers and it thrilled her . |
| 25 | But he had it and he gave us food and wine out of it so we understood it was his . |
| 26 | Well I knew it 's I wonder |
| 27 | over that woman 's feet , cos you know what she did , she rang up Lynnette , she got through to the wrong extension Debbie answered , she slammed the phone down , and Debbie knew it were her she went mad |
| 28 | Out of the original hundred houses this was the last one to be occupied and we saw this being built , erm right from the time that it was a plot of land and we knew it was ours |
| 29 | Brick by brick , we knew it was ours |
| 30 | She was still wearing her slinky felinoid disguise , with mask , but I knew it was her . |