Example sentences of "[pers pn] who [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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1 | For it was she who brought up the young James after the perhaps fortunate death of his violent , drunken father in a railway accident . |
2 | During all the long years of the war it was she who kept up the morale of all of us , especially my father , who went through many difficult times . |
3 | It was she who took up the trays Anna would n't touch when she kept to her room and had sent for her trunks . |
4 | Or , if your previous employer has gone out of business , the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service ( OPAS ) — see below — may be able to tell you who took over the responsibility for payment of pensions . |
5 | ‘ It was you who brought up the subject , ’ he pointed out crisply . |
6 | Him who figured out the contour of his car ? |
7 | It was he who carried out the Stalinist purges which lasted from 1949 to 1953 . |
8 | It was also he who scribbled down the title ‘ Deeply Dippy ’ one evening when he heard the phrase used in a Fry and Laurie exchange on Jeeves And Wooster . |
9 | Things like , it was us who set up the Benefits Unit in the Town Centre , you know , we , it was considered that you know we as a neutral policy team are in without departmental buyers rather than political buyers , that 's a joke , erm , would be the best people to erm , er set up this unit , we do n't have any less interest , the benefit 's , the benefit 's felt within the housing department with with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Poll Tax benefit , it was n't clear where that could go , so we were the people who had to sort that out . |