Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [pron] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The count had a penchant for asking various well-known composers to write chamber works for him — for which they were handsomely paid — and then pretending to his friends that he himself was the composer . |
| 2 | The Notts defence pulled absolutely all over the place and it it was the pace of coming up down that right hand touchline that did it . |
| 3 | And what what was the reason for this ? |
| 4 | But which one was the glaucous ? |
| 5 | I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ? |
| 6 | But the class , as he himself was the first to tell you , the class , forget it . |