Example sentences of "[was/were] the [noun sg] who [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Master Corbett , I am sure it was the Frenchman who informed me . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Morton goes on to say it was the Queen who persuaded her not to try to end her marriage and to accompany her husband on their official visit to South Korea . |
| 3 | It does not put upon the mat ( not at least in the same direct way ) the state of affairs of anyone believing that it was the knave who stole them . |
| 4 | Matthew 's style was snappy : ‘ John Major was the Chancellor who got us into recession and he is the Prime Minister who is n't going to get us out … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But you are certain that Livesey was the person who gave you instructions ? ’ |
| 6 | But Barbara believes Ben was the person who engineered everything . |
| 7 | Yeah oh yes he oh and he was erm being better educated than the majority of people in the Pleck he used to stand outside the Brown Lion to read the newspaper out to them cos they could n't read , and he attended all the weddings , all the funerals and er made the wills out and he almost was the father confessor for the Pleck , and when the old steam tram came off the lines down in the Pleck , when there was a steam train coming through there , he was the man who put it on the rails again . |
| 8 | And this was the man who wrote their National Anthem . |
| 9 | He was always preaching there , he he he was the man who ran it . |
| 10 | He was the man who attacked our Tamar . ’ |
| 11 | But the most blood-chilling sight of all was the man who sat his horse a little apart from the others . |
| 12 | One such person was the man who called himself Francis . |
| 13 | ‘ Who was the man who gave it to you ? |
| 14 | Research says that Mike Todd was the man who awakened you as an actress and as a woman . |
| 15 | It was the capitalist who gave us the steam engine . |
| 16 | But he added : ‘ For all we know she was the individual who infected him . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That was the lunatic who insisted we climbed the Eiger with him , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Its significance in 1422 lay in the way it questioned whether birth was a sufficient warrant for high military office , or whether the responsibilities of leadership in war time should only be accorded ( and it was the king who accorded them ) to those whose experience and reputation in military affairs merited them . |
| 19 | It was the Captain who voiced his opinion for him : ‘ It 's no wonder we ca n't find flats for our boys when they want to get married , with this sort of competition . |
| 20 | Then there was the actor who played his younger brother Adam , Nicholas Lyndhurst . |
| 21 | I think my very very favourite though , was the woman who followed me falteringly around John Lewis 's Lighting Department , stopping when I stopped , and making me very nervous indeed . |
| 22 | ‘ It was the woman who did it ! ’ |
| 23 | Only last year he was the patriot who told his friend George Bush that he was against the Gulf war . |
| 24 | Nothing was too much to ask if it prolonged her stay , she thought wistfully , so she smiled as she said , ‘ Considering that I was the culprit who booked them in on Ling 's day off , it 's the least I can do . ’ |