Example sentences of "was [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Harvey who answered . |
| 2 | that was Highton you know , not Liverpool |
| 3 | It was Newton himself , again , who , during his priority dispute with Leibniz , encouraged the notion that the conclusions presented in a classical geometrical garb in the Principia were originally derived by him through his fluxional calculus — one more ‘ fable ’ . |
| 4 | And it was Newton who had been the murderer . |
| 5 | For the second 45 minutes it was Chelsea who made the chances , with Boro keeper Steve Pears reacting well to keep them out . |
| 6 | Four months later it was Legasov who led the Soviet delegation to the Vienna conference on the disaster , and it was the forcefulness of his opening five-hour speech that established the conventional wisdom about Chernobyl : that it had been caused by human error among the operators , that the measures taken to protect the population had been adequate , and that the Soviet Union had nothing to hide . |
| 7 | The Woman leaned forward , her face eager , but it was Doyle who answered , dropping every word slowly so that it rippled like a stone in a pond . |
| 8 | It was Doyle who answered , thoughtfully , as though it had been any ordinary question . |
| 9 | The latter 's favourite hunting box was Knepp Castle near West Grinstead ; so fond of it was he that he eventually seized it from William de Braose , an action hardly guaranteed to increase baronial support ; when the French invaded England in 1216 to support the barons against John , it was Sussex which bore the brunt . |
| 10 | It was Nour who looked away . |
| 11 | It was Ian who persuaded my father to let me go on to Cambridge , which I did a year after Ian . |
| 12 | Objectively , he was little more attractive to the Conservatives who were hostile to MacDonaldite mush than was MacDonald himself . |
| 13 | Understandably thinking that he had achieved an odd escape , declarer gleefully played off three rounds of diamonds to discard his losing club , but now it was West who took the setting trick when he was able to ruff . |
| 14 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 15 | It was Minton who secured the lease on the house and informed Vaughan of his share . |
| 16 | Atoms open up a much wider range of materials ; glasses ( the first client for FABMS was Pilkingtons which studied the effects of new metallic coatings ) , paint pigments , insulators , biological materials , adhesives and industrial catalysts . |
| 17 | It was Wharton-Tigar who , in the end , saved Klein 's life by shipping him out to Gibraltar when the Abwehr sought his arrest . |
| 18 | It was Magnus who discovered the girl first ; he yelped unsteadily , his voice rising with excitement , and Gina went to see what he had found . |
| 19 | But it was Lisabeth who got the mince for him . |
| 20 | It was Macha who taught Irish women how to keen over their dead , taking the notes of her own awful cry from the shrieks of widows and groans of women in childbirth . |
| 21 | In 1528 , when he perhaps helped to garrison Guisnes , offices in Salisbury eluded him because Thomas Wolsey [ q.v. ] had already disposed of them ; by 1530 it was Wolsey who needed Baynton 's goodwill . |
| 22 | Seldom in history has a work of fiction had such influence in forming public attitudes and the full fruit of this influence would only be recognized in 1861 : it was Lincoln himself who would refer to the little lady who started the war . |
| 23 | Or , as one of my students once put it to me , ironically , when I was still preaching this gospel , ‘ I know , Sir , it was racism what dun n it . ’ |
| 24 | And it was Morse himself who had initiated the arrest of Mr Edward Stratton as he stepped off his plane in New York ; Morse himself who had spoken with the aforementioned Stratton for forty-six minutes , seven seconds — as measured by the recently installed meter in the recently constituted Telephone Room at St Aldate 's . |
| 25 | It was Morse himself , too , who at 8.30 p.m. had called a halt to everything . |
| 26 | But it was Morse who answered : ‘ If you wish , Lewis , I will give you the names and addresses of the three of them there that open all day . |
| 27 | But it was Morse who did so , as he continued : |
| 28 | All the same , constituency party membership rose that year to 265,763 , an increase of well over 10% on 1943.35 With the sudden break-out of the armies from the Normandy bridgehead , it looked as if what Churchill called the ‘ German war ’ was about to come to its conclusion ; and , as we have seen , in October 1944 , when the Commons once more renewed the electoral truce for a year , it was Churchill himself who said that this would be the signal for the dissolution of the coalition . |
| 29 | But it was Swindon who had all the chances . |
| 30 | It was Swindon who scored first . |