Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] it was [pron] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever his reasons for staying , Reg certainly knew his football and it was he who turned a team of no-hopers into one capable of sustaining a bottom six position for the rest of the decade . |
| 2 | He grew up hating any form of bloodshed and it was he who founded Eton College , also King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 3 | The Romans were always good at finding a sheltered and beautiful site and it was they who first settled here . |
| 4 | Park was perhaps the most influential early member of this group and it was he who , in tracing this transition , distinguished between what they called the ‘ biotic ’ and ‘ cultural ’ levels of human behaviour . |
| 5 | John was keen to help in a practical way and it was he who came up with an idea for marking John 's year in captivity . |
| 6 | Miss Blagden duly took the wretched gun and it was she who was kind enough to write on delivering it : — I found your husband very well , Wilson , and as expected by you much agitated over the rumours that another concerted effort is to be made to free and unite his country which subject I may say engages the minds and hearts of his employers hardly less . |