Example sentences of "and [vb past] it be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel heard someone moaning with pleasure and realised it was her . |
| 2 | Then I looked at the chassis and registration numbers and realised it was my old car . |
| 3 | PC TONY Spong arrested a man at a burgled petrol station — and found it was his brother . |
| 4 | Then she smiled , stroking Melanie 's face again , so tenderly that Melanie closed her eyes and imagined it was her own mother caressing her or any mother caressing any child . |
| 5 | Intending not to forget her car again , however , Fabia dipped her spoon into her pudding , sampled it , and discovered it was something of a rather superb plum pie , if different from what she knew . |
| 6 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 7 | Mary heard the calls and knew it was him but she waited . |
| 8 | But when he threw open the door to a room upstairs she saw a trouser-press and a black silk robe flung on a chair and knew it was his bedroom . |
| 9 | Mercer Lorrimore was over in England at that time , and stayed and went racing at Newmarket in July , but the Jockey Club found him grimmer than his usual self and understood it was something to do with his son , although he did n't say what . |
| 10 | And thought it was somebody else . |
| 11 | However , Mr McAllister says that three days after Margaret McLaughlin 's death Beattie did not know her name and thought it was someone else who had died . |
| 12 | When the sister was summoned up and said it was her grave had been dug , he realised there was nothing more he could do and the whole thing was adjourned to the community centre for a couple of hours while big men with shovels rather grudgingly got to work . ’ |
| 13 | After she was dead , after we had said the prayers for her , her son , the young one , brought it to me , all newly furbished like this , and said it was her wish that I should have it , for a musician without an instrument is a warrior without weapon or armour . |
| 14 | She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed . |
| 15 | The next morning he plonked all this money on the table , about eighteen hundred quid , and said it was mine to re-do the kitchen and the bathroom . ’ |
| 16 | My father swore at me , and said it was my fault you did n't come . |
| 17 | and said it was you . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I moved out , came to live here in a rented house I ca n't really afford , Susan sold the flat , which seemed a bit more than a symbolic act , I continued to love her and miss her , I tried to understand what she felt and hoped it was something she 'd eventually work through so that we could be together again . |