Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [noun] who give " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Hua who gave the order for Jiang Qing and her associates to be arrested along with many of their supporters . |
| 2 | On one view , Professor Elton 's , the organization described in the Edwardian ordinances ‘ bore little relation to reality ’ ; it was Cromwell who gave concrete and lasting form to otherwise pious aspirations . |
| 3 | It is a curious joke of history that it was Stalin who gave Lithuania its capital city ( between the wars it was in Poland ) , and Tito who , in order to weaken great-Serbian chauvinism , created a much larger Croatia with a much larger Serbian minority . |
| 4 | It was Simon who gave that impression behind my back . |
| 5 | It was Daphne who gave me my first art book , The Treasures of Italy , in exchange for several cream wafers , and from that day on I knew I had stumbled across a subject I wanted to study for the rest of my life . |
| 6 | It was Virginia who gave me the clue . |
| 7 | It was David who gave the grim reply to the secretary 's question . |
| 8 | It was Mayer who gave the experienced Michael York a torrid afternoon and created a string of opportunities with penetrating crosses . |
| 9 | It was Morris who gave Swan his first Cheltenham winner in 1990 when Trapper John took the Stayers Hurdle , still the biggest day in Charlie 's life . |
| 10 | It was Sayeeda who gave me an insatiable desire to open the doors of Oman , doors which were locked to most foreigners and needed a special key . |
| 11 | The name makes some sense as an enduring survival of bronze age Cretan influence , but we must not lose sight of the fact that it was Evans who gave the Minoan civilization its name and not the Minoans : they almost certainly called themselves something completely different . |
| 12 | It was Irvine who gave Aberdeen a deserved lead in the 15th minute . |
| 13 | It was Riego who gave the revolution its programme by declaring on 1 January 1820 for the constitution of 1812 : thus a single man , acting on impulse and without consulting civilians , committed liberalism to the constitution that was to destroy it . |
| 14 | It was Francis who gave Cantona his foothold in English football by bringing him to Sheffield for a one-week trial last January . |