Example sentences of "[pers pn] who [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall die with that feeling of guilt , that it was I who robbed him of life . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He ate little and it was I who brought him food . |
| 3 | ‘ I was close to your father during his great crisis , ’ she said , ‘ and it was I who led him astray . |
| 4 | I was conscious , too , of his fine , tanned hand holding the pencil , and of the occasional play of warm breath from his mouth , wholesome as home-baked bread , though he was a heavy smoker — much heavier than I. ft was I who introduced him to the Bisontes brand , a Spanish version of Lucky Strike , with a similar ‘ toasted ’ flavour . |
| 5 | It was me who bathed him and turned off his light . |
| 6 | Three years later it was she who gave him his passport , from the limbo of a long RAF demobilisation process , to the West End . |
| 7 | Especially when they are tipped that it was you who topped him . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Why , what 's it to you who knocked him off ? ’ |
| 9 | Thus many modern historians of classical Greece follow Thucydides and other commentators in arguing that democracy worked quite well so long as the populace was content to follow the leadership of educated spokesmen of the upper class like Pericles : " It was he who led them , rather than they who led him … |
| 10 | And Jesus , in his conversation with the Samaritan woman who asked him where true worship happened , answered that " God is spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth , " for " the time will come when neither here nor in Jerusalem will men worship " . |
| 11 | He frequently accompanied Rodrigo Moynihan and his wife , Elinor Bellingham Smith , to Soho and , according to Elinor , it was they who introduced him to Wheeler 's in Old Compton Street , the expensive fish restaurant , famous for its oysters and its excellent cooking of fresh seafood , served simply with boiled potatoes and salad and without any form of dessert . |
| 12 | It was they who showed him where everything was — the Ixmaritian refectory , the exercise courts , the recreation room , the chapel . |
| 13 | In their turn the Norwegians accepted him as one of themselves ; it was they who named him the ‘ father of Norwegian mountaineering ’ . |
| 14 | A friend of mine who accompanied him to a play disputed this , but it was true . |
| 15 | The Book of Proverbs makes it clear that happiness and discipline go hand in hand from the beginning of our lives : ‘ He who spares the rod hates his son , but he who loves him is careful to discipline him . ’ |
| 16 | Those of us who knew him are shocked and saddened by his death . |
| 17 | Harry Lucas was to all of us who knew him a mentor , a tutor and avuncular friend . |
| 18 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
| 19 | Those of us who knew him well see this as the beginning of his caring career which was evident in all that he did . |
| 20 | No doubt all those of us who saw him play have treasured memories of particular occasions when John Jackson performed as a man inspired to keep Palace 's goal intact . |
| 21 | It might tell us who killed him . ’ |
| 22 | Each time he set off , it was obvious to those of us who loved him that he was wildly out of control and a danger to those who came before and after him . |
| 23 | There are many of us who owe him a great deal . |