Example sentences of "[pers pn] who [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was I who sent the medicines . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , and it was I who informed the police . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And how did you know it was me who sent the flowers anyway ? |
| 4 | It was she who let the Stoves take Eric away to Belfast , away from the island , away from what he knew . |
| 5 | But maybe the offer is refused because the kitchen sink has been enthroned as the living nerve-centre of the home , and to abandon it is to lose the right to be considered worthy and hard-working ; she who washes the dishes puts everybody else under an obligation . |
| 6 | She who loved the fields and trees and the wideness of the North Riding could not have endured so claustrophobic an existence . |
| 7 | But it 's you who take the meanings away ! |
| 8 | Thanks to all of you who returned the Alumni Update questionnaires — even as I write , they are still coming in ! |
| 9 | As a Taurean , you work well with others as long as it is you who calls the shots . |
| 10 | Hear this and tremble , you who scape the laws . |
| 11 | It 's you who has the answers now . |
| 12 | It 's not just you who finds the clues though . |
| 13 | ‘ Is it they who make the fires in the forest ? ’ |
| 14 | This topic has less attraction for ordinary policemen and women , for although they might take pleasure in thing someone is interested in their views , it is they who run the risks associated with answering questions and from being observed doing their job . |
| 15 | Was it they who distributed the products of their workshops to the remainder of society ? |
| 16 | This may help , since it is they who provide the politicians with the money to run the system . |
| 17 | The hand of that great radical political theorist , John Knox , can certainly be detected in this — literally , for it was he who penned the letters . |
| 18 | As has been noted , it was he who proposed that the chiefs should be required to take the oath of allegiance , he who decreed that McIan Macdonald 's late submission was invalid , and he who prepared the instructions for the excess of vengeance against the clan . |
| 19 | What he characteristically does not say is that it was he who kept the Pythons together . |
| 20 | In the family Shanta married into , the head of the family was her husband 's cousin , and it was he who made the rules : |
| 21 | He who made the cunts talk went straightaway into the castle ; all ran to salute him and wished to welcome him warmly , in which he could take great pleasure . ) |
| 22 | ‘ Was it he who added the steps ? |
| 23 | In the days before packages were available , it was he who wrote the programs for LETGEN ( for letter generation ) and later designed E-Mail ( our electronic mailing system ) and Viewdata ( the facilities used by agents ) . |
| 24 | Team ‘ A ’ for want of a better name consisted of Jim Cardin ( it was he who spilled the beans to the Glenpatrick News but was n't given much option ) , Eddie Bell , Michael Stewart , Leala Smith , Andy Beattie and John Turnbull . |
| 25 | Similarly , it was he who fought the photographs case [ quoted in original paper ] through to the Court of Appeal , and was successful . |
| 26 | It seems that , quite contrarily , it is she who courts the male , and he who rears the chicks . |
| 27 | But our poetry started to flow again , though now it was he who distributed the favours : there was no call for him now to bribe me with sex , so this aspect of our relationship was something he kept under tight control , allowing sexual contact only when he felt like it and not just when I wanted it , as in the past . |
| 28 | As a result , one of his sacred titles was ‘ He who causes the springs to flow ’ . |
| 29 | One former employee at Church House recalls occasions when he has intervened in staffing decisions more properly the sphere of General Synod on the basis that it is he who writes the cheques . |
| 30 | And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit , because he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God . |