Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | If your exercise programme has lapsed it is time you reinstated it on a regular basis . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But from the start Eva had insisted he was talent itself , that he was beautiful and God had blown into his cock . |