Example sentences of "people [Wh pn] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the men who most attracts him , Mubarak , is also one whose sexuality is most self-conscious , withdrawn , and complicated ; Mubarak 's masculinity is itself strung out across difference : he is a Sudanese African in Asia , and fighting for a people whom he does not understand and who regard him with a racist indifference ( pp. 194 — 5 ) ; he speaks perfect French , but with a Parisian urban working-class accent . |
| 2 | Because he thought that he was dealing with the National Press rather than simply a few local people whom he had been ignoring for a considerable time , the Mayor responded to direct questioning , even if he did not change his colours . |
| 3 | Gladstone was only one of many people whom he persuaded to record — in this case , a message congratulating Edison upon his invention . |
| 4 | It was important that , to begin with , Clive was to approach only people whom he already knew by sight — even if he had never actually spoken to them before . |
| 5 | He consulted a few people whom he thought were good tests of opinion . |
| 6 | Barron 's National Business and Financial Weekly , on of the financial district 's most respected and oldest papers , in its Dec 27th issue did a major article on the subject claiming that the plane was sabotaged by either Gravier or by people whom he had swindled . |
| 7 | Simon worked late at his office then went on to places meeting people whom he ought to know , next morning he 'd say to her , You were awfully late last night where have you been ? |
| 8 | The gentle-hearted David was shocked by the cold vehemence between these two people whom he loved more than anything else in the whole world . |
| 9 | He was much better about people whom he knew , and the seventeenth century is a minefield for amateur historians . |
| 10 | There is otherwise a grave danger that the people whom he addresses might well regard the policeman as a rival lout . |
| 11 | The hon. Member for Oldham , West may giggle , but £30,000 is riches beyond the dreams of avarice to many of the people whom he claims to represent . |
| 12 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 13 | Another was his ripostes to people whom he found less than entertaining — or important . |
| 14 | Sgt. Harold Challoner , the policeman who planted evidence on innocent people whom he disliked and who was described at his trial as being ‘ quite mad ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ He liked Joe Allen 's because it was filled with theatricals , people whom he thought always minded their own business , ’ said Pat . |
| 16 | Such a problem was analysed in M & S Drapers v Reynolds [ 1956 ] 3 All ER 814 when Denning LJ said : I do not … see why the employers should be able to forbid him to call on the people whom he already knew before he worked for them … |
| 17 | What I find very frightening is the campaign by Sir Thomas Hetherington in particular who erm as reported in the newspapers has said that there are er a handful , 3 or 4 people whom he has singled out , and he says the evidence is prima facie evidence against them , is so overwhelming that the law of England must be radically changed in order to bring a prosecution against them , and , as Lord Shawcroft said , well how , in such circumstances , could such people have a fair trial when we 've had the er Hetherington the former Attorney General saying , in effect , we know these people are guilty , we 're changing the law to prosecute them , and now you members of the jury must n't on any account er think er in er you must judge completely impartially . |
| 18 | Charles , in the meantime , would invite people who he knew shared his enthusiasms to keep him company . |
| 19 | If ( as he may well have done ) he thought that he was the Messiah , then his choosing of the twelve would seem to have been a symbolic action , through which he should indicate to people who he was . |
| 20 | All those positions were going for want of an application , so I applied and because brought in people who he knew , certain of them were automatically filled but they want the Chief Administration Officer , so I applied and really I do n't kid myself that I got it because of my qualification because I had n't got any letters after my name . |
| 21 | But it 's the nature of the offence as such that if a soldier is bullied , he 's unlikely if he wants to stay in the Army , to bring it to the attention of the authorities , because he know that afterwards he has then to live with the people who he 's complained about . |
| 22 | He was , though , still unwilling to put up with people who he felt were beneath his intellectual level . |
| 23 | Yes , you all laugh — who , all right , he makes — some of the things he says are valid , but because he 's watered his message down , if you , well ‘ watered down ’ is the wrong , popularized his message to make a political point , at the same time he 's alienated other people who he needs to rely on in this scientific community to help him go , go forward . |