Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun prp] who [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't care it was Dan who pushed her , and Dan was pushed round . |
| 2 | It was Wilde who christened her the ‘ Sphinx ’ , the name by which she was thereafter known to her friends . |
| 3 | If Jennie ordered baths to be taken it was William who escorted them , gave them soap and a towel and waited for them to come out . |
| 4 | Cambridge United and Middlesbrough were unable to break the deadlock in the first half of their match , but Taylor gave Cambridge the lead after sixty seven minutes and it was Taylor who made it two nil fifteen minutes from time to give Cambridge a memorable victory . |
| 5 | Eventually , it was David who found him a good ship and carefully guided him through the process . |
| 6 | And I think it was Kipling who said he had six serving maids Who , What , Where , Why , When and How . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't suppose it was Wordsworth who wrote it . ’ |
| 8 | It was Pete who turned it into a car . ’ |
| 9 | It was Fergus who suggested I should ask you about LaMotte . ’ |
| 10 | She revealed it was Alan who took her under his wing when she first joined the cast as a relatively inexperienced actress . |
| 11 | The Lebanese man in the dock says he was invited back to the flat , and it was Kim who threatened him with a knife . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was Robert who took her in to dinner . |
| 14 | It was Morris who encouraged him to go to London , recommending him to J. D. Sedding [ q.v. ] , the church architect . |
| 15 | It was Ibu who told us that her husband was terrified of the water . |
| 16 | No excuses , no explanations — it was Trudy who told me why . |
| 17 | I do n't have to tell you it was Aubrey who reminded me you 'd be twenty-one on the fifth . |
| 18 | This time it was Andrus who broke it . |
| 19 | When it came to electing a successor to the deposed Archbishop Fitzherbert at Richmond ( North Riding ) on 24 July 1147 , Bishop William opted for Henry Murdac [ q.v. ] , favourite of the Yorkshire reformers , against King Stephen 's candidate ; presumably it was Murdac who released him from the suspension he incurred for failing to attend the Council of Reims in March 1148 . |
| 20 | Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later . |
| 21 | Seven years later it was Meg who got him the audition on TV 's Opportunity Knocks which was to give him his big break . |
| 22 | It was Peters who chided him about his frail physique , which led to his regular attendance at August 's Gymnasium , which was in the basement of Apley Hall . |
| 23 | It was Irina who persuaded me to start writing . |
| 24 | It was Irina who started them . |
| 25 | It was Virginia who gave me the clue . |
| 26 | ‘ Unless … it was Marek who told you and not Tatyana . ’ |
| 27 | Bec had said to Grainne that when they faltered or fell prey to despair , it was Raynor who helped them . |
| 28 | It was Ana who drew you here and even though Devlin is behind all this they will expect an article . ’ |
| 29 | It was Kevin who told me about Julie 's accident . |
| 30 | After Brundle 's Jaguar took off like a scalded cat , it was Mass who hunted it down , and soon engaged it in a lurid battle . |