Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They 're taking it away so was doing a tape for grandma and granddad and Keith was going , he was going hello grandma and granddad it 's Kenny you know like the three of them and he was going , whoop whoop whoop oh da !
2 In the New Testament it is Paul who develops the concept of salvation in terms of justification .
3 When they cross a region of space–time it is space–time itself that vibrates .
4 Edith had also stopped all the pupils in the school from beating her up again after the first incident and during the riot it was Edith who had saved her life .
5 On the final lap it was Robert who beat his brother to the Metropole corner , after the 180mph descent from Coleraine .
6 From the late 18th century onward these brought sealers from North America and Europe into the Southern Ocean ; during the subsequent decades of competitive exploitation it was sealers who discovered most of the cold temperate islands , the ice-covered islands within the pack ice belt , the tip of Antarctic Peninsula , and the great ice-filled bight of the Weddell Sea .
7 This is humanity 's oft-repeated experience , and in the long run it is experience which really teaches , and no amount of scriptural citation of divinely allocated land will ever alter that .
8 Indeed , at the end of the scene it is Olivia who is left alone on stage — in that key situation of the end-of-scene soliloquy that tells all — to declare her newfound , misbegotten love in verse .
9 But for the moment we were friends who had to prepare Wavebreaker for a possible Atlantic crossing .
10 ‘ They have been treated , therefore , as persons in a different situation from mere contractors for then they would have been exempt , but in truth they are purchasers who have acquired an interest not in a mere chattel , but in a subject of a permanent nature … ’
11 But when they arrived at the meeting it was Oldfield who was wearing Branson 's horn-rimmed spectacles , riffling papers in his briefcase and doing his best to look brisk and businesslike , while Branson gesticulated in a parody of artistic eccentricity .
12 But I think after three glasses of wine it 's time I went home . ’
13 He was turning into a porky little Buddha , but compared to everyone else in the room he was life itself , vibrant , irreverent and laughing .
14 Well cos at er , there were n't enough tide to take it away , I mean you ta you get clay well that 's , that 's solid and the amount of stuff I was dredge they use and use it , now we 're not the only ones got it , they got people from Harwich , people from Felixstowe , they were all dumping out there .
15 Of course , many workers in adult education are also feminists — they may be the anti-sexist male variety — but on the whole they are women who want adult education to respond to the concerns of the women 's movement .
16 In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain .
17 But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies .
18 Under the next gas lamp it was Sarah who looked at him , but he stared straight ahead .
19 Obviously , if Jane says I 'm skipping and Mary says I 'm skipping we observe that on one occasion it is Jane who announces that she is skipping and on another it is Mary .
20 Well I 'm done now for till tomorrow morning and then thank god it 's Friday I say .
21 Yeah there 's the price it 's size it 's this product you know the reason we 're phone you because you 've been identified as by the estate agent or medical practice or school as being very suitable and they would very much like you to support this .
22 Hess has protected them , although in theory they are people he should not even know .
23 When the rise in rents from 1912 onwards threatened to overwhelm the family economy it was women who protested and led rent strikes , for example in Leeds and , more famously , Glasgow , leading to the imposition of rent control in 1915 .
24 When I arrived and rang the bell it was Albert who showed me in .
25 She always brushed Corrie 's beautiful hair when she came to the rectory , and though she began teaching both children the alphabet it was Corrie who received the most attention .
26 In times of trouble it is children who suffer most — whether through war or the daily grind of poverty .
27 It is future planning it is growth it is commended to you all .
28 In mine it is Philonous who finally says , ‘ All right ’ ( though note that it is followed by ‘ but ’ ) .
29 She stopped abruptly , suddenly afraid to say the words aloud in case they were words he would n't want to hear .
30 Though they both wore the uniform of a Private it was plain who was of superior rank .
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