Example sentences of "[pron] who [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 For it was she who brought up the young James after the perhaps fortunate death of his violent , drunken father in a railway accident .
2 During all the long years of the war it was she who kept up the morale of all of us , especially my father , who went through many difficult times .
3 It was she who took up the trays Anna would n't touch when she kept to her room and had sent for her trunks .
4 Or , if your previous employer has gone out of business , the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service ( OPAS ) — see below — may be able to tell you who took over the responsibility for payment of pensions .
5 ‘ It was you who brought up the subject , ’ he pointed out crisply .
6 An ’ we now know he wuz the Triad connection , the one who took over the sect an' corrupted it . ’
7 She recalled now that this was the one who had explained to his mother what clandestinely meant , and he , too , was the one who brought in the law when confronted by the policeman .
8 ’ You are the one who brought down the spymaster of Aldebaran ?
9 in terms of , I mean Bill was the one who drafted up the
10 But there was one fault in the design which did not escape the sharp eyes of the Thrush Green neighbours , and John Lovell was one who pointed out the weakness to his brother-in-law .
11 Him who figured out the contour of his car ?
12 It was he who carried out the Stalinist purges which lasted from 1949 to 1953 .
13 It was also he who scribbled down the title ‘ Deeply Dippy ’ one evening when he heard the phrase used in a Fry and Laurie exchange on Jeeves And Wooster .
14 Things like , it was us who set up the Benefits Unit in the Town Centre , you know , we , it was considered that you know we as a neutral policy team are in without departmental buyers rather than political buyers , that 's a joke , erm , would be the best people to erm , er set up this unit , we do n't have any less interest , the benefit 's , the benefit 's felt within the housing department with with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Poll Tax benefit , it was n't clear where that could go , so we were the people who had to sort that out .
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