Example sentences of "[pron] that it [be] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Well I that it was you .
2 ‘ It seems to me that it is we who are being treated like criminals but I do n't suppose I have any choice . ’
3 You 're going to try to tell me that it was him , not you ?
4 Just for a second , for one brief surprising second , the old man admitted to himself that it was he who had created this pitiful excuse for a man , and his conscience , that bothersome thing which he had buried long ago , rose to haunt him .
5 How very arrogant you are , Feargal , and might I remind you that it was you who sought me out , not the other way round ? ’
6 She looked around at the other people in the water , and when she saw Matthew , brown and sinewy , poised on the board for a swift controlled racing dive , she admitted to herself that it was him she was searching for .
7 I did not remind him that it was I who had replaced the newspaper with mended panes and the sacking with curtains .
8 The latter had evidently enquired as to whose command Stirling 's detachment came under and Smith informed him that it was his , but that L Detachment would revert to GHQ control on completion of their current tasks .
9 You ca n't take it that it is you have to draw your scale diagram .
10 Rumour had it that it was he who brought it to the attention of Chamberlain , who became President of the Board of Trade at the same time as Plimsoll left the House , that numbers of lives lost at sea , after falling as a result of the Load Line Act , were now again on the increase .
11 ’ Chert — did you tell anyone that it was me who got you involved with Ardakke ? ’
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