Example sentences of "[was/were] he who [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was he who managed the hurried disinterment of 28 graves in one day , and nine barrows before breakfast to avoid the disturbance of spectators . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lewis was the presiding genius ; the meeting took place in his rooms and it was he who chose the moment to ask if anyone present had any work in progress which they wanted to read aloud . |
| 4 | In the family Shanta married into , the head of the family was her husband 's cousin , and it was he who made the rules : |
| 5 | It was he who made the first approaches … " |
| 6 | It was he who advised the sale . |
| 7 | It was he who extended the graveyard and established the famous Rabbi Loew in the Talmudic school here . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was he who let the kidnapper in before he left for work . |
| 10 | What he characteristically does not say is that it was he who kept the Pythons together . |
| 11 | Graham Vick directed the Scottish Opera production of Carmen in 1986 , when he had already established his name as one of the major innovators in opera ( it was he who directed the stunning version of Wagner 's ‘ Ring ’ in the Whitla Hall at last year 's Festival . ) |
| 12 | A quiet , soft-spoken man , he arrived at the yards in the dark days of 1983 fresh from a difficult stint at British Shipbuilders and it was he who persuaded the Government to allow a management/employee buyout in 1988 . |
| 13 | It was he who wrote the famous book which has come down to us by its Arab translation , and is known as the Almagest . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air . |
| 16 | It was he who popularized the recapitulation theory , the claim that ontogeny ( the growth of the embryo ) recapitulates phylogeny ( the evolutionary history of the species ) . |
| 17 | Rocastle continued to play brilliantly and it was he who crossed the ball in for the third . |
| 18 | Unaccountably , Lieutenant-General Suharto was not on the death list , and it was he who brought the Siliwangsi division into action , and occupied Jakarta . |
| 19 | Similarly , it was he who fought the photographs case [ quoted in original paper ] through to the Court of Appeal , and was successful . |
| 20 | When Robert Slater returned he accepted this idea with enthusiasm , and it was he who planned the new hostel and took a very active hand in raising the modest sum necessary for the building . |
| 21 | It was he who received the body of Simon Cormack at the Radcliffe . |
| 22 | His memories of that triumph had , of course , been soured by her departure , and now it was he who wore the hungry , yearning look he 'd first seen on Furie 's face . |
| 23 | It was he who led the people out from Egypt , the " exodus " which gives the book its name . |
| 24 | It was he who bought the embryonic Field ‘ for a trifling sum ’ , and within a short time achieved profits amounting to £20,000 a year . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was he who put the job together and picked the team . ’ |
| 27 | It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning . |
| 28 | One of his associates was the noted bibliophile Richard de Bury , later Bishop of Durham , and it was he who informed the Pope , in response to a message conveyed verbally , that requests which the king himself really wished to be carried out would bear the words Pater Sancte in his own hand . |
| 29 | It was he who created the Saturday market and built the church of St Margaret beside it , just before the end of the eleventh century . |
| 30 | He made close contacts with leaders of popular movements , and it was he who provided the major link between the co-operatives and trade unionism . |