Example sentences of "[coord] it be [pos pn] [noun] who " in BNC.

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1 And I 'd look on the field and it was his brother who 'd been tackled . ’
2 And it was your grandmother who convinced you you were n't an ugly duckling , that you would grow up to be a swan ? ’
3 But it was their hostess who was the most elegant .
4 The success of these personalised clocks mean business is ticking along nicely for Graham and Julia Sale , but it was their daughter who got them going .
5 Paige felt her heart thudding wildly in her chest , but it was her aunt who spoke first .
6 It did open , at seven minutes past , but it was her father who entered the kitchen .
7 There was an urgency about the way he moved which caught Alice 's attention , but it was her husband who spoke first .
8 He broke all records , but it was my mother who filled in the forms .
9 Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while .
10 By the sixth week , Charlie could strip and clean a rifle almost as quickly as Tommy , but it was his friend who turned out to be a crack shot and seemed to be able to hit anything that moved at two hundred yards .
11 But it was his partner who drew and held Lindsey 's gaze .
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