Example sentences of "it was she who [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , generous Shane said : ‘ You could say we 're lucky it was she who abducted her . |
| 2 | It was she who told me you 're a writer . ’ |
| 3 | It is strange that I can find no reference to these beans in Peggy Earl 's " Tales of Islay " because it was she who told me that they were sometimes called " fairy eggs " and that some of the more wealthy people had them set in silver mounts to wear round their necks . |
| 4 | It is strange that I can find no reference to these beans in Peggy Earl 's " Tales of Islay " because it was she who told me that they were sometimes called " fairy eggs " and that some of the more wealthy people had them set in silver mounts to wear round their necks . |
| 5 | It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies . |
| 6 | And it was she who told me that she 'd been , that 's where they 'd been . |
| 7 | For it was she who told herself that nothing was to be gained at this moment by recrimination , that Sir George 's land and influence at Stockton were still big assets ( though nowhere near worth the price at which they had been bought ) , and that a moping Sir George — a sackcloth-ashes flagellant — could be all it needed to bring the whole structure of confidence tumbling down . |
| 8 | In fact , when Chris , Sara , Michael and I visited her in hospital , it was she who cheered us up and made us laugh ! |
| 9 | I could see that Estella was still proud , and I knew that it was she who made me feel ashamed of home , and Joe , but I also knew that I could never stop loving her . |
| 10 | Aunt Lilian was aware — more than Aunt Kit was aware , anyway — of what might be thought a young girl 's natural pre-occupations , and it was she who took me to buy clothes and lipsticks , asking the sales girls ' advice with a gentle humility that touches me now , because she was not humble by nature and thought an interest in personal adornment the mark of a trivial mind . |
| 11 | And it was she who brought me the first evening paper . |
| 12 | Three years later it was she who gave him his passport , from the limbo of a long RAF demobilisation process , to the West End . |
| 13 | And besides , do n't forget , it was she who dumped you in the end . |