Example sentences of "[be] the [pron] [Wh pn] [vb past] it " in BNC.

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1 I say that I am the one who brought it .
2 However , he warned of the threat posed by the secession issue to the future of perestroika , commenting : " We have embarked on this path and I am the one who chose it .
3 I wanted to be the one who did it , ’ he said .
4 You were the one who said it ought to be eight o'clock .
5 Carefully trying to keep all emotion from her voice , in spite of a cold shock that went right through her , she asked , ‘ But you were the one who suggested it .
6 And he 's the one who sent it .
7 ‘ It was Guido 's arch-rival who he 's beaten into second place twice … he 's the one who took it , and now he 's been arrested . ’
8 She 's the one who did it for money
9 On the rare occasions serious chastisement was called for , he was the one who meted it out , never in anger , always in privacy after deep discussion with the culprit .
10 ‘ I was the one who saw it first , ’ said Melissa .
11 But like , he even said it , he said to me when I was drunk and I , and it pissed me off a little bit actually cos like , he goes to me you know like I I was saying about it and he goes erm well she was the one who wanted it all casual and everything , and I said oh yeah .
12 Well , I was the one who found it . ’
13 Ingrid was the one who found it most awkward .
14 The moment when it enters his or her head , that X was the one who did it , can thus be concealed and brought out only at the very end of the story .
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