Example sentences of "of people whom [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To say that crime is functional and necessary for society 's health is to say that we must always ensure that we retain a stock of people whom we humiliate , imprison or ( perhaps worst of all ) regard as suitable cases for treatment . |
| 2 | An AI mission to Argentina in November 1976 , led by Lord Avebury , was followed everywhere by twenty plainclothes policemen who questioned , intimidated and even detained a number of people whom they meet . |
| 3 | Some banks also have a hit list of people whom they threaten to sue for damages . |
| 4 | In our own time it has been only fascists , racists and their ilk who ha–e felt the urge to slaughter vast numbers of people whom they have regarded as different from themselves . |
| 5 | The sample was made up of people whom they judged would probably have been long-stay residents of Powick if that option had continued to be available . |
| 6 | The number of people whom they knew personally in Berlin could have been counted on the fingers of one hand . |
| 7 | Most organisations involved in functional catering establish and maintain lists of people whom they have screened for their suitability and who have declared themselves available for casual work . |
| 8 | Zelah seemed to know everybody and the Wycliffes were introduced to a bewildering variety of people whom they never expected to see again . |
| 9 | And bringing up the end of the procession was a tribe of people whom she recognised at once as those who , like herself and Claud , had always had a little of everything and the God-given wit to use it right . |