Example sentences of "she [Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps someone had told him it was she who 'd informed the assassin Zambia was here . |
| 2 | Although Aunt Violet was n't often rude about other people ( she explained to Alice that Catholics were not allowed to be uncharitable ) , it was she who 'd remarked : ‘ Just a little bit vulgar . |
| 3 | There was some difference that she could not at first put her finger on , and then at last it came to her ; it was she who had said ‘ We shall go ’ and their presence in the forest had flowed from that . |
| 4 | And it was she who had said ‘ This is the way ’ and their arrival at this spot at the moment the friar was being attacked had flowed from that . |
| 5 | She awoke with the innocent children asleep around her , she who had lost her innocence . |
| 6 | Though in the old days it had been she who had braved her mother 's disapprobation and slipped out to enjoy herself , while her sister stuck grimly to her books and her duty and her long-term plans . |
| 7 | When he phoned up the Scotland Yard Press Bureau the woman who answered said it was she who had fixed up Nicola 's first contact with the Drugs Squad . |
| 8 | It was she who had cared for him , and looked after him , too , until he died , and in the bed upstairs in which he had been born , and his father before him , in the days when this house had really been a farmhouse and the land about had been glowing with crops in their rotation . |
| 9 | Creggan held his breath for he knew that though she was speaking of him as if he was not there really it was she who had become something else and that some power was using her to speak to him directly . |
| 10 | She felt as she lay there that it was she who had done wrong . |
| 11 | Mother , she who had seen so much , wanted one last triumph ; one final casting coup . |
| 12 | It was Laura who had first recruited me to this task , she who had seen that I might be involved . |
| 13 | Lydia was not exactly terrified , but she was sitting very , very still so that if there was the slightest noise she could be quite certain that it was not she who had caused it . |
| 14 | The headmistress had tried to insist that she go on a racial awareness course , she who had taught children of different races for over twenty years . |
| 15 | He looked at her as though it was she who had made the unusual suggestion . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's none of your damned business ! ’ she snapped half-heartedly , yet his words struck a raw nerve and she almost winced in pain , because Ryan had only been ardent at first ; after that , it had been she who had made the advances . |
| 17 | Joanna 's startled face jolted Isabel into the realisation that it was she who had spoken , not the reeve . |
| 18 | It was she who had interviewed Meg for the Old Rectory and Meg now found it difficult to connect that confident , tweeded , slightly aggressive woman with the two gentle old people she knew . |
| 19 | And Melanie 's aunt might be important if Loretta was going to pursue this line of inquiry : presumably it was she who had brought up the girl after her parents ' death in the plane crash . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In fact it was she who had advised him to get a second opinion on the matter , from a lawyer . |
| 22 | But she , who had run fifteen thousand miles to find her freedom , she who had driven Jim out of the house rather than wash his dirty teacups , was now a slave to someone who never washed their cups , who was never interested in her ideas , who never wanted to talk , hear , understand , sympathise , who hurt one 's body as no one had ever hurt it before and who chained one forever to mountains , not just of washing-up , but of washing itself . |
| 23 | Nan had been twelve then , and it was she who had tipped the balance . |
| 24 | He did n't need to ask her if it was she who had told him . |
| 25 | It was she who had begged him to make love to her , she recalled , not the other way round , and , although he had n't been exactly reluctant , what man was going to turn down such a blatant offer ? |
| 26 | ‘ What would you know ? ’ demanded Thomas , the under-footman , jealous that it had been she who had found the body when she went into the bedroom with the morning tray of tea and biscuits . |
| 27 | Her stomach lurching in sympathy with the plane dropping down fast towards Bangkok convinces her dully that it 's she who 's done it : left England , friends , comrades , ways of seeing , the easy labels of self-definition . |
| 28 | But it is she who has created an atmosphere in which it is possible for her most senior minister to be publicly rubbished while she escapes without blemish or stain . |