Example sentences of "[pers pn] [Wh pn] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After my fourth or fifth lesson I was able to see that it was I who was causing myself the discomfort . |
| 2 | They were being themselves , and it was I who was playing a game . |
| 3 | And there was a , two friends of theirs who were courting and he 'd got a pimple on the end of his nose . |
| 4 | If it 's a will it 's the executor or the one executor of the number of them who are proving it . |
| 5 | He must know , at the very least , that a great many more are coming , through Svein , with men in them who are fighting for money . |
| 6 | I I can think of a I can think of a few th of them who are going to be completely incomprehensible to you . |
| 7 | cos , as you say , if if they do have to come to grips with their fellow man , to be at least some of them who are going to be impressed by that . |
| 8 | That for you and me who are growing old |
| 9 | It is not just me who is complaining . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell me who is protecting you . ’ |
| 11 | Well I feel erm really that we should have a little bit more compassion amongst ourselves as women and when I had my first child I had a very good friend who went through the pregnancy with me who is waiting for a child to arrive by adoption , and she had the baby a couple of months after I had my baby . |
| 12 | A typical comment was , ‘ Will somebody tell me who is going to do the work ? ’ |
| 13 | I ask the swaying member of the hotel staff who comes towards me who is giving it . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not me who 's dying , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Did n't you ever think it could be me who was sending the money ? ’ |
| 16 | It was n't just me who was playing badly , but the side as a whole . |
| 17 | I was starting to get that unreal sense , the dream feeling I 'd had on invasion day all that time ago ; the idea that it was n't really me who was going through all this . |
| 18 | Can Sandra Bernhard ( FACE 48 ) seriously believe that , because it is she who is stripping for Playboy and not some ‘ subservient bimbo ’ , she has succeeded in subverting the soft-porn medium ? |
| 19 | Fixing my eyes on them , I could n't help cursing Aisha , wishing she was dead , swearing by the Prophet Muhammad that I would have my revenge because it was she who was stopping me walking those streets and riding in those red buses to find work and a flat or a room of my own . |
| 20 | Now it was she who was using the past tense . |
| 21 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 22 | Suddenly it was she who was shaking and crying , |
| 23 | ‘ It does n't take a psychologist to see that it 's you who 's running . ’ |
| 24 | that 's for group one one okay , okay I 'm not telling you who 's doing whose right please mark it , marks out of ten and I want you to be able to justify your marks . |
| 25 | I think the idea is that you just , they show you who 's doing the speaking by putting it in that little bubble from the person and then they write it again at the bottom . |
| 26 | Alternatively it could be you who 's cutting up rough because you think you 're being neglected and ignored . |
| 27 | ‘ Being in Tin Machine is a bit like having an affair : you know where it 's at , because it 's you who 's having the relationship , but everybody else in the world thinks they know where it 's at ! |
| 28 | It is n't really you who 's feeling this way , it 's the girl you used to be who 's been somehow resurrected — brought back to life by all the memories that surround you . |
| 29 | I know that the two of you who are getting married today feel it is wonderful to be with so many good friends , and in particular one good friend , who understands your heartaches as well as your joys . |
| 30 | Those of you who are taking shorthand units will be doing a lot of listening practice and you will have plenty of opportunities to improve your skills . |