Example sentences of "[noun] it [was/were] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edith had also stopped all the pupils in the school from beating her up again after the first incident and during the riot it was Edith who had saved her life . |
| 2 | On the final lap it was Robert who beat his brother to the Metropole corner , after the 180mph descent from Coleraine . |
| 3 | From the late 18th century onward these brought sealers from North America and Europe into the Southern Ocean ; during the subsequent decades of competitive exploitation it was sealers who discovered most of the cold temperate islands , the ice-covered islands within the pack ice belt , the tip of Antarctic Peninsula , and the great ice-filled bight of the Weddell Sea . |
| 4 | Erhard and Adenauer now clashed on other issues but in an argument in May 1962 over custom duties it was Erhard who won the Bundestags support . |
| 5 | Adam suspected that these days Rufus might be quite fastidious about wine , a wine snob even , the kind that savours bouquets and talks about nice little domestic burgundies and so forth , but in those days it was plonk he wanted . |
| 6 | Some days everyone who wrote with their left hand automatically received two lengths of the corridor , and on other days it was people whose name began with the letter ‘ S' ’ . |
| 7 | But when they arrived at the meeting it was Oldfield who was wearing Branson 's horn-rimmed spectacles , riffling papers in his briefcase and doing his best to look brisk and businesslike , while Branson gesticulated in a parody of artistic eccentricity . |
| 8 | She told Sam it was time he was in bed , but without conviction . |
| 9 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 10 | But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies . |
| 11 | Under the next gas lamp it was Sarah who looked at him , but he stared straight ahead . |
| 12 | When the rise in rents from 1912 onwards threatened to overwhelm the family economy it was women who protested and led rent strikes , for example in Leeds and , more famously , Glasgow , leading to the imposition of rent control in 1915 . |
| 13 | When I arrived and rang the bell it was Albert who showed me in . |
| 14 | She always brushed Corrie 's beautiful hair when she came to the rectory , and though she began teaching both children the alphabet it was Corrie who received the most attention . |
| 15 | Though they both wore the uniform of a Private it was plain who was of superior rank . |
| 16 | When the TUC expelled the electricians ' union it was Jordan who determinedly merged his engineering union with theirs , to the fury of the hard left . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes ? ’ she answered , her voice guarded in case it was Jason who was calling . |
| 18 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 19 | In part it was geography which made this possible . |
| 20 | According to these employers it was teachers who needed WE more than pupils , so that they could get a picture of what engineering was really like ( as opposed to media misrepresentations — strikes , redundancies , etc. ) and so put across a ‘ good image ’ of engineering , hopefully attracting the ‘ brighter pupils ’ into the industry . |
| 21 | But for the majority it was purity which provided the language both to challenge men 's immorality and to stake out their own claim to speak about sex . |
| 22 | Of course it was England which gave cricket toAustralia . |
| 23 | For the second 45 minutes it was Chelsea who made the chances , with Boro keeper Steve Pears reacting well to keep them out . |
| 24 | But on forty one minutes it was Milton who took the lead as new signee from A E R Harwell , Robbie Munn , was on hand to slide the ball home from close range as Matt Utteridge in the Bishops ' goal could only palm away Nigel Mott 's probing cross to send Milton in at the interval leading by a goal to nil . |
| 25 | In Darlington it was ties he was after , opting for a restrained paisley pattern at £7.99 to replace his classic blue and white polka dot number . |
| 26 | Paul Reynolds held off the challenge of John McPherson to put Drumaness ahead seven minutes from half time and even though a Dunmurry effort was cleared off the line it was Drumaness who squandered the scoring chances in the first half . |
| 27 | In the end it was Laura who broke the silence . |
| 28 | In the end it was Rachel who was forced to give in and she swam to the side of the pool , climbed up the steps , and sat on the side watching as David completed several more laps . |
| 29 | In the end it was Mary who had to calm Martin down , reassure him and promise to come back the next day . |
| 30 | In the end it was Edwards who arrived at Metropole corner first on the last lap , and held his advantage to finish ahead of the maestro . |