Example sentences of "be [noun] that [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | It needs to be done now and it 's going to cost us more if we leave it till later , on that point I ca n't agree with your budget , so , I 'm afraid , it 's roads that put me against it . |
| 2 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was despair that made me believe there was one person in the world who might know that I was in despair . |
| 4 | I think it was Lynne that told me . |
| 5 | ‘ If it was Paula that means I have two of my staff as fugitives from justice … ’ |
| 6 | So I suppose it was frustration that led me to break the cardinal rule of any diplomat behind the Iron Curtain in the good old days . |
| 7 | It was love that kept me going ; it was ambition to be a poet that fuelled Dana 's labour and yoked it with mine . |
| 8 | But I knew it was ultrasonics that made me afraid . |