Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They had dug up those bones at Wyvis Hall and had decided it was murder they were investigating .
2 The Farmers ' Union of Wales had said it was fishermen who should be made to pay .
3 Even when as we 've done here we 've got which is timber which is cut like the slices of a cake from the outer rim to the centre .
4 The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend .
5 If your exercise programme has lapsed it is time you reinstated it on a regular basis .
6 I 've heard there are companies who could do this for me — do you know of any ?
7 A fortnight ago , she had been too taken aback by the idea to absorb what it could imply , but before anything was fixed there were matters which she and Vitor must discuss , parameters to be defined , agreements which needed to be cut and dried .
8 And if some malicious god had n't decreed it was Slane she had to go to , or Slane where he lived , things might have been very different .
9 When the openers were parted it was Gower who held the innings together with 90 , and thanks to 51 Extras the follow-on target was passed with three wickets in hand , and the total made 310 .
10 If Jennie ordered baths to be taken it was William who escorted them , gave them soap and a towel and waited for them to come out .
11 But for this to be achieved there are problems which must be overcome .
12 Indeed , in his first reading of the letter Gentle had n't even realized it was Pie'oh'pah who was being spoken of in this passage .
13 But from the start Eva had insisted he was talent itself , that he was beautiful and God had blown into his cock .
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