Example sentences of "was [noun] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Harvey who answered . |
| 2 | And it was Newton who had been the murderer . |
| 3 | For the second 45 minutes it was Chelsea who made the chances , with Boro keeper Steve Pears reacting well to keep them out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was Doyle who answered , thoughtfully , as though it had been any ordinary question . |
| 7 | It was Nour who looked away . |
| 8 | It was Ian who persuaded my father to let me go on to Cambridge , which I did a year after Ian . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 11 | It was Minton who secured the lease on the house and informed Vaughan of his share . |
| 12 | It was Wharton-Tigar who , in the end , saved Klein 's life by shipping him out to Gibraltar when the Abwehr sought his arrest . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it was Lisabeth who got the mince for him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But it was Morse who did so , as he continued : |
| 19 | But it was Swindon who had all the chances . |
| 20 | It was Swindon who scored first . |
| 21 | Instead of taking Barnsley to the cleaners , it was Swindon who went in the washtub and were all but scrubbed out . |
| 22 | It was Nicandra who said : " Are n't you cold ? " as she took off her coat . |
| 23 | It was Ben who answered for her , saying , ‘ Aggie knows that . |
| 24 | When the openers were parted it was Gower who held the innings together with 90 , and thanks to 51 Extras the follow-on target was passed with three wickets in hand , and the total made 310 . |
| 25 | In 1216 it was Eustace who commanded the fleet which ferried Philip 's son , Louis , across to England when the latter mounted his bid for the English throne . |
| 26 | It was Lavinia who had supported him every step of the way , kept him upright at the graveside , yet within a month she , too , was alone , her husband shot down over the Western Front . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Well I do n't care it was Dan who pushed her , and Dan was pushed round . |
| 29 | It was Cenwealh who recommended to Ealhfrith c . |
| 30 | ( It was Polyzalus who dedicated the famous ‘ Charioteer ’ , a bronze statue celebrating a victory at the Pythian games of 474 at Delphi . ) |