Example sentences of "[pers pn] was he [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how these boys got in with him but it was him who put them up to all this . |
| 2 | He was attracted , though , by ceremony and magical or miraculous powers associated with religion , and when he had the relics of the Three Wise Men brought from Milan to Germany , it was he who carried them into Cologne Cathedral . |
| 3 | However , once again it was he who took her in to dinner . |
| 4 | She believes Gedge is anxious to play it down because it was he who took it more seriously than herself . |
| 5 | It was he who finished it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was he who told me about the injuries the King received . |
| 8 | It was he who told me to see that the room was prepared for you . ’ |
| 9 | It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning . |
| 10 | Thus many modern historians of classical Greece follow Thucydides and other commentators in arguing that democracy worked quite well so long as the populace was content to follow the leadership of educated spokesmen of the upper class like Pericles : " It was he who led them , rather than they who led him … |
| 11 | It was he who arranged their introduction to the French court . |
| 12 | Michael Sendivogius was imprisoned by the Emperor Rudolph on pain of yielding his secrets , and it was he who wrote what struck me as fair comment on the Hermetic enterprise in an imaginary complaint of the alchemist to Nature : |
| 13 | It was he who recommended her to apply to Breakspear College when it started admitting women . |
| 14 | Rumour had it that it was he who brought it to the attention of Chamberlain , who became President of the Board of Trade at the same time as Plimsoll left the House , that numbers of lives lost at sea , after falling as a result of the Load Line Act , were now again on the increase . |
| 15 | In November 1974 , it was he who talked me into going along for the audition for ‘ New faces ’ at the Blue Angel nightclub in Leeds . |
| 16 | Usually it was he who organized their days and evenings . |
| 17 | To assert that the knave of hearts was the person who stole the tarts is not to assert that one believes that it was he who stole them . |
| 18 | It was he who curbed my youthful lust and transformed it into a longing for spiritual embrace . |
| 19 | After all , it was he who seduced me . |
| 20 | The only sorrow for Marjory , of Lunedale Road , Darlington , is that her grandfather is no longer here to share in the good news for it was he who introduced her to all things historical . |
| 21 | It was he who introduced me to Dietrich Bonhoeffer . |
| 22 | It was he who introduced me to the doyen of all Tibetan experts , Sir Charles Bell who , because of the war , was living quietly at The Old Charming Inn near Victoria while writing his last book . |
| 23 | Apparently it belongs to this boy Svend because it was he who suggested they go to Copenhagen instead of staying on in Roskilde when the pop festival ended . ’ |
| 24 | When she informed the man on duty that she would be back shortly , however , but did n't know exactly when , it was he who suggested she might wish to leave some of her luggage in the hotel 's store . |
| 25 | No , well he was he I knew him quite well because I lived in at that time when I w was on that T V series , I lived at Pinner . |