Example sentences of "[conj] it was they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |
| 2 | People forget that it was they who freed the country from Pol Pot , otherwise many more would have died than the one million who were starved , tortured , and executed between 1975-78 . |
| 3 | I remember Geoff telling me this , tears streaming down his face , marvelling at how it was his children who had the strength to carry on , and that it was they who had this practical , yet profound way of reaching to the heart of the matter . |
| 4 | These older Shetlanders seemed to create the incomers ' links to the community , in the sense that it was they who helped to forge the reputations attributed to these incomers . |
| 5 | Although it was Dorothy who had come to interview the officials at PopCon ( ’ an Intergovernmental Agency for Fundamental Research into the Worldwide Problems of Population Stabilisation' ) , she kept getting the impression that it was they who were interrogating her . |
| 6 | The usual instruction was to ‘ provide what is customary ’ , though this attitude led to extreme financial hardship for the poorer classes , though it would not be unreasonable to say that it was they who helped to perpetuate the meaningless and elaborate ritual well into the early decades of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | Another English spring has damply arrived , and the English have begun another cricket season , reminding themselves yet again that it was they who created the world 's most civilised form of sport . |
| 8 | The Romans were always good at finding a sheltered and beautiful site and it was they who first settled here . |
| 9 | In the 1060s and 1070s Sicily fell to the Normans , and it was they who eventually captured Palermo in 1072 . |
| 10 | He despised homosexuals , and although there were plenty of other sexually depraved aristocrats around at the time , he was unfortunate enough to have married into a family ( the Montreuils ) who had strong court connections , and it was they who made sure that he was jailed , partly to get him off their backs ( so to Speak ) and partly as an example to others . |
| 11 | The funeral trade furnished funerals in accordance with the rank of the deceased , and it was they who decided on the suitable coffin type , quality of lining and shroud . |
| 12 | Fortunately some of the neighbours intervened , and it was they who invented the sobriquet . |
| 13 | For it was as if the confusion was gone and it was they — the Men , the wind , the voices of the others , that were slowing , and he who had all the time he needed . |
| 14 | They are the couple who have been looking after the twins , and it was they who first contacted my mother earlier this morning . |
| 15 | Mr Lear 's lasting contribution to the pastime was the formation of an informal country walking club of retired gentlemen , the Midweek Walkers , and it was they he last bid farewell to . |
| 16 | We got a whole teacher got a whole lot of letters for some piece all about collecting cans for getting trees and it was them letters . |
| 17 | The report is fascinating because the Magharba ( if it was them ) probably directed their demand to the government . |
| 18 | Honestly if it was them that had to stuff those navy blue fitted sheets into the automatic after he 's been home they 'd be Under No Delusions . |
| 19 | If it was them , they had been through the house very , very carefully . |
| 20 | Peter says : ‘ I would like them to think if it was their brother , if it was them that had to sit there and watch their brother die in their arms , see how they would feel . |
| 21 | ‘ Because it was they who had you sent here , of course ! |
| 22 | I suspect I suspect the local office probably wo n't because it was they when I rang them here in Newark and I said , Look I 'm about to go self-employed , |
| 23 | Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success . |
| 24 | Mahathir denounced industrialized nations for criticizing logging in southern states , when it was they who were mainly responsible for global warming . |
| 25 | It is the cattle dealers and butchers of the town who are of most interest to us , for it was they who took the dog of Rottweil and turned him to their use with great effect . |
| 26 | The other set of tradesmen to benefit from the Act were the jobbing printers , for it was they — rather than an alternative central source — who provided the blank affidavits . |
| 27 | If you had lifted the dresses of the Krishnapur ladies on that morning of the last assault , you would have found them correspondingly bare-legged , for it was they who had donated their stockings to help solve Harry 's difficulty with his brass cannon Because , incredible though it may seem , he had fired so many round shot in the course of the siege that the muzzle had been hammered into an ellipse . |
| 28 | Such thoughts made him feel uneasy , working for the Seven , for it was they , his masters , who permitted the existence of this place . |