Example sentences of "[coord] it was [art] [noun sg] who " in BNC.

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1 Well they used to ask you to invite the e actually invite the American soldiers into your homes and my friend in Chuckery a couple of years ago , I was visiting him one Sunday lunch and a knock came to his door and he went and it was a guy who came over to see , his mum is now dead , but he , he come over he remembered him from the war .
2 It was Diana who was held responsible for the steady stream of royal staff who had left their service during the last eighteen months and it was the Princess who was accused of forcing Charles to abandon his friends , change his eating habits and his wardrobe .
3 Its significance in 1422 lay in the way it questioned whether birth was a sufficient warrant for high military office , or whether the responsibilities of leadership in war time should only be accorded ( and it was the king who accorded them ) to those whose experience and reputation in military affairs merited them .
4 Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion .
5 But it was a man who was standing inside , a policeman .
6 Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather .
7 SCOTTISH champions Rangers are the undisputed rulers of British soccer but it was an Englishman who engineered the European Cup overthrow of Leeds United .
8 But it was the Earl who said gently , ‘ Theda , my child .
9 But it was the head who ran to his study to phone .
10 But it was the American who stood beside her who felt that heat now , she thought with a little shudder .
11 But it was the man who magnetically held her gaze …
12 Edward Morris smiled and nodded but it was the stranger who spoke .
13 Of the old man perhaps , but it was the son who had been shot .
14 The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first .
15 But it was the IHSM who five years ago produced a report suggesting that new ways of delivering health care should be explored including separating providers from purchasers .
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