Example sentences of "[coord] it be he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silently — and it is Him |
| 2 | and it is him you turned |
| 3 | When the appointment of three arbitrators is required , each party chooses one arbitrator , and the arbitrators-dual appointed-dual in this way choose the third arbitrator and it is he who takes on the presidency of the arbitration authority . |
| 4 | He is portrayed as showing sorrow at the destruction caused by German bombers and it is he who ‘ saves the day ’ by first giving himself up and then being shot by Clogger . |
| 5 | There was a sailing er what do they call it , a here and it was him that he asked would could you send a boy there . |
| 6 | They had obviously discovered some scrap to take with them , and it was him . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , God ! ’ someone said , and it was him , his voice thick with excitement . |
| 8 | And it was him that was ringing the bell you know . |
| 9 | The first tape we played back and it was him eating toast ! |
| 10 | In the family Shanta married into , the head of the family was her husband 's cousin , and it was he who made the rules : |
| 11 | Lewis was the presiding genius ; the meeting took place in his rooms and it was he who chose the moment to ask if anyone present had any work in progress which they wanted to read aloud . |
| 12 | So the property passed to his eldest sister 's son the Reverend Richard Rowland Ward and it was he and Mrs Ward who lived out their architectural fantasies . |
| 13 | His was a free style of architecture which embraced bits of everything , and it was he , together with his friend and partner Nesfield , who invented the ‘ Queen Anne ’ style . |
| 14 | In the time of the Labour Government the Chief Secretary had been Joel Barnett and it was he who had forced Barbara Castle into her major and controversial changes . |
| 15 | Then she ran to find Ferdinando to tell him and they embraced and it was he who said , ‘ She is an angel ! ’ of Mrs Browning and Wilson realised she had expressed not a word of gratitude . |
| 16 | But it was too late in the day to get Hungary out of its Axis alliances and it was he who annexed Ruthenia and negotiated the Vienna Award of August 1940 , by which Hitler gave back to Hungary half of Transylvania , including the old regional capital of Kolozsvár ( Cluj ) . |
| 17 | He grew up hating any form of bloodshed and it was he who founded Eton College , also King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 18 | The sixth Duke of Devonshire came into possession of the property in 1811 and it was he who introduced a menagerie of animals to the gardens of Chiswick House , including deer ; kangaroos ; elks ; emus ; Indian bulls and goats of several kinds . |
| 19 | During the next few days I saw a lot of ‘ Deemy ’ and it was he who suggested that Major Hal could clear the decks for me to accompany him on his next flight back to Siberia . |
| 20 | Sometimes he was roped in to be the MC at these dances , which , for those who know only disco dancing , means Master of Ceremonies , and it was he who announced that the next dance would be a waltz , or a foxtrot , and was not supposed to dance himself until everyone else was on the floor . |
| 21 | John Tennant ( 1725–1810 ) , the father of the family , is thought to have been a witness to the baptism of Robert Burns , and it was he who joined the poet 's father , William Burness , in hiring a young school teacher for their sons at Alloway . |
| 22 | It was he who had run ahead in pursuit of the horses , and it was he whose eyes now most keenly searched the forest edge . |
| 23 | William Mason Fenn was rector from 1864 until 1866 , and it was he who arranged for the fair at nearby Hoyland Common to be brought up to Rectory Field where the parishioners could enjoy the swings and donkey rides free . |
| 24 | Charles Temple almost certainly came to Northern Nigeria with the idea of another Punjab in mind : his father , the distinguished Indian administrator Sir Richard Temple , had been in his youth one of John Lawrence 's hard-riding young men , and it was he who wrote in 1901 asking for his son ‘ to become one of the recruits which Lugard is raising for Nigeria . |
| 25 | It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning . |
| 26 | When Robert Slater returned he accepted this idea with enthusiasm , and it was he who planned the new hostel and took a very active hand in raising the modest sum necessary for the building . |
| 27 | He already has wins over Edberg and Lendl , and it was he who ended the title ambitions of Wimbledon Champion Michael Stich . |
| 28 | Molyneux , like Richmond , won his freedom as a result of his boxing and it was he , more than any other early black sportsman , who ‘ showed how prize fighting could be the means by which a man of his colour might gain prominence and a certain undeniable importance akin to a theatrical star ’ ( Farr , 1964 , p.3 ) . |
| 29 | Celia Hooper 's husband was a bank manager in Woodborough , and it was he who tended so ferociously the disciplined garden beyond the patio doors . |
| 30 | One of his associates was the noted bibliophile Richard de Bury , later Bishop of Durham , and it was he who informed the Pope , in response to a message conveyed verbally , that requests which the king himself really wished to be carried out would bear the words Pater Sancte in his own hand . |