Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [was/were] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edith had also stopped all the pupils in the school from beating her up again after the first incident and during the riot it was Edith who had saved her life . |
| 2 | On the final lap it was Robert who beat his brother to the Metropole corner , after the 180mph descent from Coleraine . |
| 3 | From the late 18th century onward these brought sealers from North America and Europe into the Southern Ocean ; during the subsequent decades of competitive exploitation it was sealers who discovered most of the cold temperate islands , the ice-covered islands within the pack ice belt , the tip of Antarctic Peninsula , and the great ice-filled bight of the Weddell Sea . |
| 4 | But when they arrived at the meeting it was Oldfield who was wearing Branson 's horn-rimmed spectacles , riffling papers in his briefcase and doing his best to look brisk and businesslike , while Branson gesticulated in a parody of artistic eccentricity . |
| 5 | In the event it was Alaska which became the 49th State of the Union ( in 1959 ) but it could easily have been Coca-Colonial Britain . |
| 6 | But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies . |
| 7 | Under the next gas lamp it was Sarah who looked at him , but he stared straight ahead . |
| 8 | When the rise in rents from 1912 onwards threatened to overwhelm the family economy it was women who protested and led rent strikes , for example in Leeds and , more famously , Glasgow , leading to the imposition of rent control in 1915 . |
| 9 | When I arrived and rang the bell it was Albert who showed me in . |
| 10 | She always brushed Corrie 's beautiful hair when she came to the rectory , and though she began teaching both children the alphabet it was Corrie who received the most attention . |
| 11 | Though they both wore the uniform of a Private it was plain who was of superior rank . |
| 12 | When the TUC expelled the electricians ' union it was Jordan who determinedly merged his engineering union with theirs , to the fury of the hard left . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes ? ’ she answered , her voice guarded in case it was Jason who was calling . |
| 14 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 15 | In part it was geography which made this possible . |
| 16 | But for the majority it was purity which provided the language both to challenge men 's immorality and to stake out their own claim to speak about sex . |
| 17 | Of course it was England which gave cricket toAustralia . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the end it was Laura who broke the silence . |
| 20 | In the end it was Rachel who was forced to give in and she swam to the side of the pool , climbed up the steps , and sat on the side watching as David completed several more laps . |
| 21 | In the end it was Mary who had to calm Martin down , reassure him and promise to come back the next day . |
| 22 | In the end it was Edwards who arrived at Metropole corner first on the last lap , and held his advantage to finish ahead of the maestro . |
| 23 | No one seemed to know what to do next , or what was expected of them , and in the end it was David himself who took control . |
| 24 | In the end it was David who spoke first , drawing her even closer to him and pulling the duvet round them both . |
| 25 | But there were still things that needed to be said , explanations to be given , and in the end it was David who broke the silence . |
| 26 | When they finally sat down to the meal it was Moran himself who brought McQuaid back into the day . |
| 27 | Yet in a curious way it was John who did more to restore Sam than any of them . |
| 28 | Shiva had no doubt it was Adam he saw . |
| 29 | Manager Dick Graham immediately went back to his former club , West Bromwich Albion , and purchased Welsh International , Tony Millington to take over but , by the end of the year it was Jackson who was earning praise in the Palace goal after standing in for the injured Welshman and making his home debut against Cardiff on 28 November 1964 , and by the end of the season ‘ Jacko ’ , as he became popularly called , was in undisputed possession |
| 30 | To my surprise it was Ward who backed off . |