Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first the first half a year that I was Holland I I do n't think I was away for a holiday , but then the the next Summer then I was away . |
| 2 | Although it was midday everything was pitch dark . |
| 3 | Although it was Dorothy who had come to interview the officials at PopCon ( ’ an Intergovernmental Agency for Fundamental Research into the Worldwide Problems of Population Stabilisation' ) , she kept getting the impression that it was they who were interrogating her . |
| 4 | Although it was Church who originally proposed the use of ‘ pinches ’ and ‘ scoops ’ for measuring out the components of salt-sugar solutions for the purpose of oral rehydration , it was BRAC which adapted this method for use by the people of Bangladesh . |
| 5 | Their total of thirty-six questions was less than 2 per cent of all the questions put , although it was Stirling who revealed the attitude of the lay judges towards the assessors . |
| 6 | Although it was Aladdin we were watching , Wishy Washy ( Michael Barrymore ) took over the show with his never-ending wisecracks . |
| 7 | The same month , a United Nations commission , set up as part of the peace agreement , said that it was d'Aubuisson who had arranged the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980 . |
| 8 | It would seem that it was Hazelden who sold to the planners at MEHQ the idea of delivering a final knock-out blow to the two main German supply ports , Tobruk and Benghazi . |
| 9 | It is a curious joke of history that it was Stalin who gave Lithuania its capital city ( between the wars it was in Poland ) , and Tito who , in order to weaken great-Serbian chauvinism , created a much larger Croatia with a much larger Serbian minority . |
| 10 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 11 | I had to wheedle the information out of him , but Capron said he was the senior case officer on the investigation into Mills , and could confirm absolutely that it was Mills who was the Soviet agent who had betrayed my father . |
| 12 | In the middle of the twentieth century Duguid ( 1946 ) emphasised the importance of arterial thrombi in the genesis of the plaque and pointed out that it was Rokitansky who first put forward the ‘ encrustation hypothesis ’ . |
| 13 | Keynes has shown that he and his brothers , six of them according to Florence of Worcester , appear in the witness lists of royal charters for some time before 1006 ; but it was in 1007 that Eadric received his ealdormanry , and Florence says that it was Eadric who had Ælfhelm murdered and the king who blinded his sons . |
| 14 | " And you might as well know that it was Paul who shot the fawn last night too , not me . " |
| 15 | In his defence , the defendant claimed that it was T who had approached him and that he had not initiated the agreement . |
| 16 | This account too contains some blunders , for it is likely that it was Æthelstan who was killed in battle , at Sherston , and that Edmund brought the relief , but when Thietmar wrote Britannis he was not thinking of Englishmen , whom he always describes as Angli . |
| 17 | Some heads of department believed that the self-appraisal report was the product of departmental discussion , but that it was discussion which had taken place over the last few years rather than during the time specifically set aside for the self-appraisal . |
| 18 | Only then did it occur to me that , of course , my witticism would not be easily appreciated by someone who was not aware that it was gypsies who had passed by . |
| 19 | The answer is ‘ yes ’ : a recent article , drawing on Eusebius ' Life of Constantine , seems to show without doubt that it was Constantine who introduced this law : Eusebius describes measures implemented by Constantine which can only be understood as referring to this law . |
| 20 | On Monday , the jury at Mold Crown Court , was told by Burgess that it was McLean who was responsible for the attack , kicking and stamping on her . |
| 21 | Remembering that it was Wordsworth whom the Utilitarian John Stuart Mill turned to when he found that his philosophy produced nothing but visions of a grey and empty world , and that Matthew Arnold , after Wordsworth 's death , believed that he alone could heal human nature in the ‘ iron time ’ , the little poem that follows , written in 1833 , seems a convenient summing-up of Wordsworth 's mature attitudes . |
| 22 | All the way from the Lock she had told herself that it was Gazzer who was lying . |
| 23 | For reasons which baffle me , the referee thought that it was Gimbert who was pulling down the scrum . |
| 24 | She found herself walking along the road saying ‘ I 'll talk it all over with Alan when I get in — he 'll know what to do ’ , only to remember that it was Alan who was the cause of the heartache . |
| 25 | Recall that it was three-year-olds who had difficulty with Flavell 's appearance-versus-reality problems ; and indeed further experiments have shown that there is a strong statistical correlation between performance on the appearance-reality and on the false belief task . |
| 26 | Despite warnings , Mrs Thatcher stressed her leadership role in Europe , saying that it was Britain which had put up an alternative scheme to the Delors plan and had taken the initiative over the idea of associate EC status for East Germany . |
| 27 | Despite warnings , Mrs Thatcher stressed her leadership role in Europe , saying that it was Britain which had put up an alternative scheme to the Delors plan and had taken the initiative over the idea of associate EC status for East Germany . |
| 28 | The Times hypothesised in the course of the election campaign that it was leaders who lost elections , not challengers who won them . |
| 29 | He picked up the sharp knife once more with a frown and growled at the meat as he diced it , imagining that it was Bessie he was carving up . |
| 30 | She could n't help thinking that it was Mark himself who was largely responsible for the change . |