Example sentences of "that it was [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw two eyes and then the cloak was thrown away from the face and he could see that it was her , blue-lipped with cold , reaching for him . |
| 2 | ‘ Then you knew all along that it was her , ’ she said accusingly . |
| 3 | And erm and she kept doing this for ages and erm she was , she was sta starting to get worried because people might believe , find out that it was her and so after she killed a cow , she took out all of i , all it 's insides and hid in it and no one ever found her ! |
| 4 | It was convenient that it was We Will Rock You , because here was this nursery rhyme and the version Queen did was very big and macho . |
| 5 | No I was n't so much disappointed as that I was disappointed that there was only five would be sponsors and that it was we had to give out |
| 6 | People forget that it was they who freed the country from Pol Pot , otherwise many more would have died than the one million who were starved , tortured , and executed between 1975-78 . |
| 7 | I remember Geoff telling me this , tears streaming down his face , marvelling at how it was his children who had the strength to carry on , and that it was they who had this practical , yet profound way of reaching to the heart of the matter . |
| 8 | These older Shetlanders seemed to create the incomers ' links to the community , in the sense that it was they who helped to forge the reputations attributed to these incomers . |
| 9 | Although it was Dorothy who had come to interview the officials at PopCon ( ’ an Intergovernmental Agency for Fundamental Research into the Worldwide Problems of Population Stabilisation' ) , she kept getting the impression that it was they who were interrogating her . |
| 10 | The usual instruction was to ‘ provide what is customary ’ , though this attitude led to extreme financial hardship for the poorer classes , though it would not be unreasonable to say that it was they who helped to perpetuate the meaningless and elaborate ritual well into the early decades of the twentieth century . |
| 11 | Another English spring has damply arrived , and the English have begun another cricket season , reminding themselves yet again that it was they who created the world 's most civilised form of sport . |
| 12 | ‘ I can only draw from this fact that the Careers Service did not destroy their copies of the incorrect documents and that it was theirs that was passed to the county councillors and Dr Ashok Kumar ( the Labour candidate for Langbaurgh ) , ’ says the statement . |
| 13 | You 're going to try to tell me that it was him , not you ? |
| 14 | That it was him did all them things ? — I knew you were daft , Gazzer . |
| 15 | He then realised that he had already seen his son some distance from the door and that his conviction that it was him had been totally irrational . |
| 16 | Eric 's name was not given but it was not difficult to guess that it was him . |
| 17 | I know now that it was him . ’ |
| 18 | No doubt that it was him . |
| 19 | She looked around at the other people in the water , and when she saw Matthew , brown and sinewy , poised on the board for a swift controlled racing dive , she admitted to herself that it was him she was searching for . |
| 20 | Was I bitter that it was me ? |
| 21 | From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth . |
| 22 | ’ Chert — did you tell anyone that it was me who got you involved with Ardakke ? ’ |
| 23 | I have to say that it was me , I did that . |
| 24 | I was surprised that it was me and not the other way round . |
| 25 | Easier to believe that it was hers , and there was something wrong with it . |
| 26 | However , you need to be able to establish and prove that it was you who created the copyright . |
| 27 | ‘ There is no doubt that it was you in charge when the hoax call was made . |
| 28 | ‘ Rory , ’ Kenneth said , sitting forward and lowering his voice to conspiratorial levels , ‘ the last secret I remember you telling me was that it was you who set fire to that barn on the Urvill 's estate . ’ |
| 29 | Which really brought it home , that it was you know . |
| 30 | ‘ I understand that it was you who found your brother 's body ? ’ |