Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] [pers pn] who [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is us who have made them what they are ? " |
| 2 | Usually it was he who organized their days and evenings . |
| 3 | Under the watchful eye of the teacher the children improvise their shoe shop , and probably it is she who suggests the use of shelves for the ‘ display ’ of pairs . |
| 4 | Three years later it was she who gave him his passport , from the limbo of a long RAF demobilisation process , to the West End . |
| 5 | Ironically it is they who have a birth-rate which is falling less quickly , thus ‘ justifying ’ that harassment . |
| 6 | His memories of that triumph had , of course , been soured by her departure , and now it was he who wore the hungry , yearning look he 'd first seen on Furie 's face . |
| 7 | But our poetry started to flow again , though now it was he who distributed the favours : there was no call for him now to bribe me with sex , so this aspect of our relationship was something he kept under tight control , allowing sexual contact only when he felt like it and not just when I wanted it , as in the past . |
| 8 | Now it was she who looked astonished . |
| 9 | Creggan held his breath for he knew that though she was speaking of him as if he was not there really it was she who had become something else and that some power was using her to speak to him directly . |
| 10 | And Melanie 's aunt might be important if Loretta was going to pursue this line of inquiry : presumably it was she who had brought up the girl after her parents ' death in the plane crash . |
| 11 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 12 | Maybe it was she who 'd been deluding herself about the state of his and Sandra 's relationship , and not the other way around . |
| 13 | And how to account for it I do not know , unless indeed it was she who spoke . ’ |
| 14 | Hussein in The Languages of Love is a Muslim , yet it is he who reveals to Julia the beauty of genuine love expressed in honest language which leads her to convert to Catholicism . |
| 15 | However , once again it was he who took her in to dinner . |