Example sentences of "that it was she " in BNC.

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1 That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound .
2 She felt as she lay there that it was she who had done wrong .
3 I could see that Estella was still proud , and I knew that it was she who made me feel ashamed of home , and Joe , but I also knew that I could never stop loving her .
4 It was odd , she thought , that it was she who could cry .
5 But setting her misgivings about Tommaso himself aside , Caterina decided that she had been quite wrong to think that it was she who had caught his attention .
6 That it was she , and talking to Henry Clerval , I now had no doubt .
7 Joanna 's startled face jolted Isabel into the realisation that it was she who had spoken , not the reeve .
8 Perhaps it was as well that it was she and not her sister who was here , she thought at one point — and then immediately realised how ridiculous that thought was .
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