Example sentences of "[pron] [Wh pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was I who brought the Ildana 's Spear , fleeing from Gorias . ’ |
| 2 | Your ideas are rather undeveloped and ignorant and , after all , it was I who saw the solicitor . |
| 3 | ‘ It was I who sent the medicines . |
| 4 | Remember it was I who ground the flour for your birthday cake ! " |
| 5 | I distinctly said that it was I who required the tuition . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , and it was I who informed the police . ’ |
| 7 | Beside this stood the cooker , installed , apparently , by someone who distrusted the island 's electricity supply ; it was a gas cooker , and had been placed there to be within easy reach of the cylinders of Calor gas that stood just outside the window under a lean-to , beside a stack of peat . |
| 8 | but someone he could trust , someone who understood the language , someone who would afterwards be gone , who would n't remain as a perpetual reminder of his uncertainties , a fellow professional to whom he could comfortably think aloud . |
| 9 | Maybe I can cite Page because he was someone who understood the studio so well . |
| 10 | My task was to assess the validity of the information taken over the phone and the only way I could do that was to contact someone who knew the Lawrence situation . |
| 11 | But someone who asked the Adjutant , ‘ How do you know ? ’ would either be a stranger to the army , or be making a joke . |
| 12 | We could be free , or we could marry again , someone who suited the new people we have become . |
| 13 | Slim in her dungarees , with her long , curly , chestnut hair and wide-eyed enthusiasm , some would tell you Marcia was ‘ a little cookie ’ , but I saw someone who had the wisdom to recognise where she was happy and the courage to act on it . |
| 14 | Most of us know someone who had the misfortune to suffer a bad car crash , or a heart attack , or a breakdown . |
| 15 | It was an impressive political statement that the electors had elected someone who had the right to be emperor . |
| 16 | The appraisers were two , three or four local men appointed by the executors ; usually they were friends and neighbours ( some of whom were illiterate ) , but they often included someone who had the reputation of knowing how to do the job . |
| 17 | Freud was a rationalist , impatient with religion , and Jung someone who thought the non-rational and religious areas of human experience held something of worth for modern man . |
| 18 | The heretic was someone who quarrelled with the fundamental teaching of the Christian Church , not someone who criticized the trappings of religion . |
| 19 | If problems are anticipated a statement from someone who witnessed the birth is good evidence . |
| 20 | I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . " |
| 21 | ‘ Someone who stayed the night . |
| 22 | From an easygoing girl she had metamorphosed into someone who wanted the proverbial all-or-nothing relationship . |
| 23 | ‘ First , we have found that Sir Ralph was probably murdered by someone who entered the Tower by crossing an ice-bound moat . |
| 24 | " That nice friend of yours who spent the week-end told me you had a lot of Oriental stuff , " Mrs. Hargreaves went on . |
| 25 | That 's an uncommon name , it must have been an ancestor of yours who translated the Bible into English . ’ |
| 26 | But it was Monty himself who made the final decision . |
| 27 | With time running out , another Bob Daynes surge down the right wing earned a corner for 'Mill , and it was Daynes himself who crossed the ball to pick out brother Peter who was unmarked in the penalty area to score with a thumping header into the roof of the net . |
| 28 | ‘ It was Nate himself who had the meetings fixed up , and he would n't want them changed . ’ |
| 29 | Nobody who read the Bible could legitimately doubt that miracles had once occurred ; the question whether they still did so became for doubters a test of their faith . |
| 30 | The sole recipient of those monies was the Society , though the funds were so ingeniously routed , through companies and agents who were unaware of their place in the system , that nobody who serviced the Society in any capacity whatsoever knew of its existence . |