Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] was [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So so you 're saying that basically it was outsiders who erm |
| 2 | So naturally it was Tess who should represent her family at the d'Urberville home . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was Veronica who spring-cleaned the flat ? |
| 4 | That boy needed a lesson — well , perhaps it was time he got one . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was time he told Corbett so . |
| 6 | Ironically enough it was Helsinki which introduced the change . |
| 7 | So it was Bernie we got talking to in the pub about a name for the band . |
| 8 | And so it was Emily who , if all that had been said about herself and George was true , would miss him most and she was absent from the funeral . |
| 9 | Finally it was Alexei who made a noise , which might have indicated either disgust or anger , then brushed past . |
| 10 | Finally it was Burun who brought the matter into the open . |
| 11 | And when the door finally flew open it was Mandy who first saw them . |
| 12 | His voice betrayed him ; she saw at once it was Jake he wanted to talk about . |
| 13 | Tina 's saying go on Mum , screen them up it was Kevin it 's Kevin |
| 14 | Four months later it was Legasov who led the Soviet delegation to the Vienna conference on the disaster , and it was the forcefulness of his opening five-hour speech that established the conventional wisdom about Chernobyl : that it had been caused by human error among the operators , that the measures taken to protect the population had been adequate , and that the Soviet Union had nothing to hide . |
| 15 | Seven years later it was Meg who got him the audition on TV 's Opportunity Knocks which was to give him his big break . |
| 16 | Ironically it was Distillery who settled into the game and looked dangerous in a brief spell midway through the first half but in the space of two minutes Stephen Baxter 's shot was touched away by Kevin McKeown and midfielder Philip Mitchell 's header landed on the roof of the net . |
| 17 | Now it was Angel One who attacked with no hint of warning . |
| 18 | Now it was Ronni who cut across him . |
| 19 | Understandably thinking that he had achieved an odd escape , declarer gleefully played off three rounds of diamonds to discard his losing club , but now it was West who took the setting trick when he was able to ruff . |
| 20 | Of course during the previous factional struggles it had been Trotsky who had been accused of advocating policies which would have led to a split between the working class and peasantry , but now it was Stalin who was in Bukharin 's sights . |
| 21 | Now it was Zeinab who shrugged . |
| 22 | I 'm never quite sure really to be honest whether these individuals had an interview with Jesus or Jesus had an interview with them , because whether they thought that Jesus or whether they thought they were doing the , the probing and the questioning really it was Jesus who was in charge of the interview , you may of watched er certain chat shows on the , on the television or heard them on the radio and er depending who the person being interviewed is , very often it actually changes , and its the interviewer who really is being put through it , its the , its the person who 's being interviewed is in charge of the situation and that was the case here Jesus . |
| 23 | Because , whether they sought out Jesus or whether they thought they were doing the the probing and the questioning , really it was Jesus who was in charge of the interview . |
| 24 | Peterborough have been looking increasingly like first division fodder but today it was Birmingham who were left scrabbling around for crumbs and there were n't too many of them . |
| 25 | looking at those well it was Denise who brought the list in , but I 'd already with the sta er the gardens but , you know the garden scheme in Northumberland . |
| 26 | He says , well it was time you were thinking about it . |
| 27 | Oh yeah , well it was people he knew , you see , yeah . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly it was Margaret who felt the parting most . |
| 29 | ‘ Of all the provincial cities we visited regularly it was Manchester which continued to supply forbidden stories on a lavish scale . |
| 30 | When it came to electing a successor to the deposed Archbishop Fitzherbert at Richmond ( North Riding ) on 24 July 1147 , Bishop William opted for Henry Murdac [ q.v. ] , favourite of the Yorkshire reformers , against King Stephen 's candidate ; presumably it was Murdac who released him from the suspension he incurred for failing to attend the Council of Reims in March 1148 . |