Example sentences of "was [pron] [pron] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And how did you know it was me who sent the flowers anyway ? |
| 2 | For the first time it was me who provoked the break in a relationship . |
| 3 | In fact erm , what we agreed yesterday was one on this paper , two and three followed from it , erm , but were not actually moved , at the working party , because it was me who did the moving . |
| 4 | Both of us went down and rolled off the hard , wet pavement into the gutter , but it was me who cracked the back of his head en route and me who got a boot in the stomach which even my US Navy parka did little to cushion . |
| 5 | ‘ It was I who sent the medicines . |
| 6 | It was I who brought the Ildana 's Spear , fleeing from Gorias . ’ |
| 7 | Your ideas are rather undeveloped and ignorant and , after all , it was I who saw the solicitor . |
| 8 | Remember it was I who ground the flour for your birthday cake ! " |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , and it was I who informed the police . ’ |
| 10 | I distinctly said that it was I who required the tuition . |
| 11 | Maybe I can cite Page because he was someone who understood the studio so well . |
| 12 | There was nobody who remembered the days of churches where people assembled for religious ceremonies , but they resented the idea of a TOM replacing the function of the antique building set aside for sacred ceremonies . |
| 13 | ‘ It was you who prepared the codicil to his will ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I believe it was you who discovered the body , Mrs Craig ? ’ |
| 15 | You seem to forget it was you who left the Road not us , John . |
| 16 | If it was you who answered the telephone , they hung up but when you were away riding they spoke to me . |
| 17 | However , you need to be able to establish and prove that it was you who created the copyright . |
| 18 | It was she who let the Stoves take Eric away to Belfast , away from the island , away from what he knew . |
| 19 | It was she who made the discovery and called the emergency services . |
| 20 | It was she who made the sound . |
| 21 | It was she who immortalised the pathos and depth of feeling contained in the song , titled as above . |
| 22 | World War I , therefore , came as a terrible blow , but she persevered in keeping alive both the British section of the International Association for Labour Legislation and the World 's Labour Laws — to such effect that in February 1919 it was she who wrote the draft to the Paris commission on the basis of the International Labour Office to be established by the Versailles treaty . |
| 23 | The story told her unconscious that to follow Hansel 's lead led her back , not forward , and it was also meaningful that although Hansel was the leader at the story 's beginning , it was Gretel who in the end achieved freedom and independence for both , because it was she who defeated the witch . |
| 24 | In the end , it was she who broke the silence that was threatening to overwhelm them . |
| 25 | First , cases of ‘ excessive defence ’ have a grounding in legal justification , in that the occasion was one which justified the use of some force , and this places them on a higher social plateau than killings with no element of justification at all . |
| 26 | Some were rinky-dink experts on the wet , like Hans Stuck ; he was one who thought the conditions actually favoured him . |
| 27 | Instinct would have told her even if Markby had n't that this was one who liked the girls . |
| 28 | It was they who surrounded the monarch and provided most of his advisers . |
| 29 | Fortunately some of the neighbours intervened , and it was they who invented the sobriquet . |
| 30 | It was they who formed the core of the strikers , persuading and supporting other weaker women . |