Example sentences of "and it [be] [noun prp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's Zack who gets the crowd bouncing up and down in time to his dazzling raps . |
| 2 | And it 's Tommy who 's scored , the young Irishman has done so well at the heart of the defence for Shrewsbury , has got into the opposition penalty area and what about this for a score line ? |
| 3 | If er someone 's taken it for a ride and dumped it near you then can you call Nottingham and it 's Dawn who wants her car back anything I can do you for three four three four three four is the number to ring . |
| 4 | There are twins at the bottom of the family and it 's Tristram who 's in trouble . |
| 5 | Mr Pincher , though , is only the ghost writer and it 's Dido who 's grabbing the headlines . |
| 6 | The international landscape with which we began 1989 — the old , familiar structures of the two alliances , the Anglo-American special relationship , the European Community 's halting progress toward greater unity , and the newer but also beginning to be familiar element of reform in the Soviet Union — is being transformed , and it is Germany which is leading that transformation . |
| 7 | And it is Britain she thanks for the startling transformation and thinks will keep her at the top . |
| 8 | The narrator ( of the Morgans ) is called Arthur and it is Arthur who survives the death of Philip and goes on to become a writer of some undefined kind on the model of David Copperfield and Great Expectations . |
| 9 | But at root the attack is on God ( 11 ) , and it is God who puts the rebellion down . |
| 10 | And it is HarperCollins which is publishing the Collins Cobuild Concordance Samplers . |
| 11 | They liked and respected Carrie 's father , who had been their foreman at Galloway 's , and it was Sharkey who had told Carrie about Fred wanting a serving-girl for the cafe . |
| 12 | She looked forward to his usual visit that evening , but he did not come , and it was Comfort who appeared at half-past nine to remake Julia 's bed and see that she had everything she needed for the night . |
| 13 | He lost the leadership of Leeds to Ellery Hanley and it was Hanley who was made skipper of Great Britain in Australia this summer . |
| 14 | Nobody spoke for a while and it was Sarah who eventually broke the silence . |
| 15 | Chapman took the defensive centre-half idea from a suggestion by Buchan , and it was Buchan who proposed another tactical innovation . |
| 16 | And it was Meli who went with him to Brighton . |
| 17 | Felipe took no notice whatever of his sister and it was Maggie who had to comfort her and assure her that no harm had been done . |
| 18 | In particular , Keyes had come to identify with the Romantic movement , and it was Heath-Stubbs who was able to broaden Keyes 's base by tracing for him the origins of Romanticism in primitive legends through the medieval to the Augustan poets . |
| 19 | And it was Bob who took me out . |
| 20 | And it was Nicholas who grabbed Celtic 's second goal after 27 minutes . |
| 21 | Her mouth opened and shut ; then looking at Maggie she said , ‘ You silly daft lump , I thought you were joking and it was Simon you had brought back . ’ |
| 22 | But the visitors were unable to take advantage of the strong tailwind and it was Alton who scored a vital goal to lead 1–0 at half-time . |
| 23 | His old friend and mentor , Thomas Middleton , now in his final year at Pembroke College , was the only person he knew , and it was Middleton who in the months ahead provided Coleridge with fatherly guidance and approval . |
| 24 | Madame Czechowska felt embarrassed and it was Zborowski who coped with the awkward moment . |
| 25 | And it was Nelson who held her when her own shock set in and she quietly wept . |
| 26 | It was Lear 's example that provided the impetus for the Goulds ' first publication , and it was Lear who later transformed Gould 's static and unimaginative style into the confident and innovative work that characterised his second and all subsequent publications . |
| 27 | But it was only when Susato began to publish at Antwerp in 1543 that their songs appeared in quantity and it was Susato who really launched Crecquillon with a book of 36 chansons à 4 parties in 1543 , though he had published Crecquillon 's greatest hit , ‘ Ung gay bergier ’ , in a miscellaneous collection the year before . |
| 28 | So he went down and it was Kelly he spoke to and er she said he |
| 29 | And it was Morse himself who had initiated the arrest of Mr Edward Stratton as he stepped off his plane in New York ; Morse himself who had spoken with the aforementioned Stratton for forty-six minutes , seven seconds — as measured by the recently installed meter in the recently constituted Telephone Room at St Aldate 's . |
| 30 | And it was Alec who let them loose . |