Example sentences of "it was she " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was she the older , the larger and clumsier , who listened to him over supper . |
| 2 | He was dressed like an American , it was she who looked English in her patched tweed jacket and jodhpurs . |
| 3 | Fixing my eyes on them , I could n't help cursing Aisha , wishing she was dead , swearing by the Prophet Muhammad that I would have my revenge because it was she who was stopping me walking those streets and riding in those red buses to find work and a flat or a room of my own . |
| 4 | Suddenly it was she who was shaking and crying , |
| 5 | It was she , Phoebe , herself , who imposed all those expectations upon herself , not her mother . |
| 6 | She lay propped up in pain and wondered when it was she had begun to loathe her body — she who had always been so proud of her figure and liked to pirouette in front of the glass after stepping from her clothes , admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs , the trim concavity of her belly , the neatness of her breasts , her skin with the sculptured texture of marble , her neck slender as the stem of a wineglass , and the bound-up hair in which fire lurked and leaped . |
| 7 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 8 | Precisely who it was she was using for a role model became clear as a middle-aged lady , admirably slim in well-cut jodhpurs , erupted from some inner fortress to enquire , in tones that carried effortlessly across the yard , precisely why Caroline had failed to run up her stirrups , how long had she been riding ? |
| 9 | He sat frozen in his seat by surprise , so blocked by his own consideration of duty , honour and the right way to behave to junior staff that in the end it was she who moved towards him , and touched his cheek . |
| 10 | The track felt soft and slithery but in the dark she could n't see what it was she was stepping on . |
| 11 | Whoever it was she saw , she smiled up at him , rising to her feet without a word and taking his arm . |
| 12 | As it was she was outraged . |
| 13 | Once a café dancer , she , too , showed a talent for marrying rich men — Sir Bernard was the third — and it was she who decided that the Docker Daimler should be gold-plated and that the seats should be upholstered in zebra skin . |
| 14 | Perhaps someone had told him it was she who 'd informed the assassin Zambia was here . |
| 15 | The outline of the character seemed right for her youngest daughter but when producer Alan Hardy saw Kylie , it was she he chose . |
| 16 | She wished desperately that Ellen were in London that she might send Lizzie to judge how Oreste fared and what he understood , but as it was she had no means of knowing . |
| 17 | He accused her of blaming him for his failure to return with Oreste when , if anyone was to blame other than her sister Ellen , it was she herself . |
| 18 | Miss Blagden duly took the wretched gun and it was she who was kind enough to write on delivering it : — I found your husband very well , Wilson , and as expected by you much agitated over the rumours that another concerted effort is to be made to free and unite his country which subject I may say engages the minds and hearts of his employers hardly less . |
| 19 | She was full of jumbled religious guilts but it was she who was the seducer … |
| 20 | It was she who introduced renaissance culture to the Hungarian court . |
| 21 | When her younger brother was being bullied it was she who leapt to his defence and up-ended his tormentor in a matter of seconds . |
| 22 | For it was she who brought up the young James after the perhaps fortunate death of his violent , drunken father in a railway accident . |
| 23 | Unfortunately the letter to Sarah Catt arrived first and it was she who was the first to break the news — by phone — to Charman , a circumstance that only added to the unpleasant situation . |
| 24 | It was she who turned away first and when she rested her arm against the wall to support the linen whilst she put the key in the lock , he came forward , saying eagerly , ‘ Let me . ’ |
| 25 | It was she and her husband who founded the great English institution now widely known as the Glyndebourne Opera . |
| 26 | In fact , when Chris , Sara , Michael and I visited her in hospital , it was she who cheered us up and made us laugh ! |
| 27 | Even now I half-suspected that she was just teasing , but in the end it was she who wriggled and twisted until we docked . |
| 28 | When they wrestled together he was the stronger ; he sent his arrows further and more accurately ; but when they ran races barefooted across the rabbit-bitten turf it was she with her long skinny legs and flying hair who left him far behind . |
| 29 | There was some difference that she could not at first put her finger on , and then at last it came to her ; it was she who had said ‘ We shall go ’ and their presence in the forest had flowed from that . |
| 30 | And it was she who had said ‘ This is the way ’ and their arrival at this spot at the moment the friar was being attacked had flowed from that . |