Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] it be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told them it was nothing . |
| 2 | ‘ I told them it was my fault — it was n't the driver 's fault . ’ |
| 3 | She told me it was your smile that did it . |
| 4 | ‘ A little bird told me it was your birthday , ’ he said . |
| 5 | You remember , I told you it 's his company which is building the villas ? ’ |
| 6 | I told you it was him did n't I ? |
| 7 | Well I told you it was her , that daughter . |
| 8 | The snubs and indignities that he received from that quarter have passed into Gaullist lore : when he so much as enquired about the progress of the assembly 's constitutional commission , one of his own former ministers told him it was none of his business . |
| 9 | I told her it 's my wife come down for the day … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I told her it was him what broke into my house . |
| 11 | Sometimes her common sense still told her it was nothing but an invention for dirtying three times as many dishes , this business of frying and parboiling , and moving things from plate to plate . |
| 12 | These two coppers takes me ter the office an' the geezer who I whacked told 'em it was me what done it . |
| 13 | As Miranda was halfway down the dark and narrow stairwell , she realised who it was who had so disarmed Madame that she had not scolded Marie-Angèle ( for not being downstairs to hand , to run the message up to Mlle Everard ) , or waited to reproach Miranda herself for allowing visitors to call without appointments and cause all this trouble to her hostess in the Hotel Davenant . |
| 14 | And later I decided what it was I believed about love . |
| 15 | And she knew who it was they were discussing . |
| 16 | ‘ I only wish I knew who it was who gave it to her , because this person could have destroyed her career . ’ |
| 17 | He said of course I scampered through these bull rushes , they never saw me they never caught me and they never ever knew who it was who 'd done it , see . |
| 18 | and the inevitable happened it it got hit and the next time we saw it it was it was galloping across the field with it 's one of his front paws |
| 19 | No I meant whatever it is it well it 's , it 's pulling |
| 20 | Now I knew what it was I had then only felt … |
| 21 | ‘ When I was in India , I thought then I knew what it was I might believe in . |
| 22 | I said it 's an application in triplicate I 'm go I 'd erm , I forgotten what it was I was going to buy and I said I wanted to discuss this with you and when we can go and get it |
| 23 | But as soon as you — did whatever it was you did to get Kokos out of my head , I came to my so-called senses . ’ |
| 24 | She was about to turn away , not wishing to disturb the Master of the Inner Chamber , when she realised what it was she had found strange . |
| 25 | And so he went the north end and got whatever it was he was wanting and on the way back he stopped at farm to watch . |
| 26 | But by the time everyone , including the doctor , realized what it was it was just too late . |
| 27 | Amaranth wondered who it was who sat so comfortably for Worcester West . |