Example sentences of "[adv] it was he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps it was him . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps it was he who was truly destroying this place . |
| 3 | Or maybe utterly sane , perhaps it was he who could not come to grips with the topsy-turvy world they all now lived in , Edward thought . |
| 4 | So it was him who sh I think it got , how it got through to him . |
| 5 | ‘ I … ’ he began to say , then stopped , unaware of who exactly it was he was now pledging allegiance to . |
| 6 | Usually it was he who organized their days and evenings . |
| 7 | But our poetry started to flow again , though now it was he who distributed the favours : there was no call for him now to bribe me with sex , so this aspect of our relationship was something he kept under tight control , allowing sexual contact only when he felt like it and not just when I wanted it , as in the past . |
| 8 | His memories of that triumph had , of course , been soured by her departure , and now it was he who wore the hungry , yearning look he 'd first seen on Furie 's face . |
| 9 | If anyone was oppressed , surely it was he ? |
| 10 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 11 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |
| 12 | Just to satisfy herself that he understood how it was he was able to build out of the vertical , the teacher asked if he could make a bent tower with wooden building blocks . |
| 13 | Thinking that maybe this man was the right man , that maybe it was him I should ask him for directions , him who would take me home or wherever it was I was trying to get to . |
| 14 | He again promised a letter from John Wright , but instead it was he who again wrote at the end of October , ‘ You obviously have n't read my letter carefully . ’ |
| 15 | Cromer cherished the thought that he ‘ remained more or less hidden [ and ] pulled the strings ’ , and proclaimed his contempt for publicity ; yet it was he of whom the fellahin sang as they laboured at their immemorial tasks . |
| 16 | And without even checking where it was he planned to take her . |
| 17 | However , once again it was he who took her in to dinner . |
| 18 | And that means a reason right there on the spot , otherwise , once out of sight , he 'd simply have made off for wherever it was he wanted to be . |
| 19 | He would n't have got away with talking to servants that way in his mess or wherever it was he spent his working life . |
| 20 | He reached inside his jacket for his notebook but I said ‘ Sunil ’ before he could clear his shoulder-holster , or wherever it was he kept it . |