Example sentences of "whose [noun sg] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 2 | I looked at her face , at the shape of the jaw and curve of the forehead ; I looked at the mouth of the mother of the girl whose mouth I could n't get enough of kissing . |
| 3 | She spoke great good sense to Mr Ash , whose poetry I can not like , though she professed to like it greatly , which naturally flattered him . |
| 4 | Rozhdestvensky uses a revised text , of whose authenticity I can not be sure . |
| 5 | The difficulty a low Christology poses for feminists was brought home to me some years ago in attending a eucharistic liturgy , which I believe had been written by Carter Heyward , whose work I shall shortly mention . |
| 6 | You sent me 200 francs , 100 of which naturally went to Survage , without whose help I would have been completely broke … but now … |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll tell you something , ’ gabbles Robert enthusiastically , ‘ There 's no-one out there now whose doorstep I 'd be willing to kip on just to get their autograph . |
| 8 | Now , there is no one in the world whose confidence I would rather share less than Iago 's , and that is one of the reasons for the discomfort I feel each time I experience this play . |
| 9 | She was at this time a large , middle-aged woman whose name I shall not mention . |
| 10 | ‘ You are having the kind of crush that is natural in a girl your age , and if you had n't been seduced by a certain person ( whose name I shall not mention again since you dislike it so ) that would be that . ’ |
| 11 | to kind of just get together with someone he 's identified a person whose name I ca n't remember but he 's got a chamber orchestra |
| 12 | I understand that that , that has now been cancelled erm , at least , the speaker has been cancelled but the evening still goes forward on Monday the sixteenth and they 've now got a jockey whose name I ca n't remember , I 'm sure John would be able to help me but er |
| 13 | And I did n't go , but a chap that I knew from whose name I ca n't remember at the moment , did go and he was killed within about three months of his er arriving in Africa . |
| 14 | whose name I ca n't remember |
| 15 | It all came back into my mind because of the ball , the spring ball , and the partner whose name I could not remember , although I have remembered now . |
| 16 | I should have known I would have problems when I crossed the border of a place whose name I could hardly pronounce — Mosonmagyaróvár . |
| 17 | Pickthorne had played , most of the time we were talking , with his baby girl whose name I could n't remember . |
| 18 | In particular I recall how the fellow-student , in that breathless voice of teenage girls , strangled in this case with awe , asked him whether he knew some Italian poet whose name I could not catch . |
| 19 | Up behind the desk , ‘ Pansy ’ Fanshawe was preparing to see how sodium reacted with something whose name I could neither remember nor pronounce . |
| 20 | I should visit Alida , who is now also alone , and Dorothea , for she has her friend whose name I can not remember , and that is yet another person for me to talk to , make friends with . |
| 21 | One of the Signals assistants was male , a Leading Aircraftsman whose name I can not now recall , but I will call him Fred . |
| 22 | Normally I 'd be reaching for ‘ annihilate ’ button when faced with such an ‘ aware ’ and ‘ right-on ’ selection of topics but Leatherface succeed where so many others have failed by virtue of the tuneful tempestuousness of their music , an assault with melody , muscle and sheer conviction which is irresistible , and the fact that Frankie Stubbs never sounds like a po-faced preacher — unlike a certain other native of the North-East whose name I can hardly type without sending my blood-pressure into the red . |
| 23 | How many of us have managed to plough through the memoirs of Lord Prior , whose writing I would describe as ‘ grammatically challenged ’ . |
| 24 | He was a friend on whose advice I could always count . |
| 25 | A pretty nest is selling puppies , he said , and sang to me of a nest ( not nurse ) from which puppies are hatched and sold , and there was a fireman and pedestrians with raincoats and walking-sticks , strolling the length of the roof as though it were an avenue , with a bright barber shop perched upon an antenna whose rust I could n't see . |
| 26 | Although I do n't want to work with people whose music I ca n't stand and people who are assholes . ’ |
| 27 | For if I can do that — if I can get people to begin to comprehend the universality and the depth of our perversion — I would have achieved something rare and precious for the starving and dispossessed two-thirds of mankind ( sic ) from whose ranks I come , and for whose cause I must now fight . ’ |
| 28 | Escaping from the awkward embarrassment of arty people , in whose company I can never say the right thing , I went for a Chinese meal . |
| 29 | He said , ‘ I want you to mix my live album — ‘ David Live' ’ , so off I went to New York and we did very few overdubs , basically just the backing vocals , because the backing vocals were done by Warren Peace which is Geoffrey McCormack in disguise , and some other bloke , whose mane I ca n't remember , and as they were dancing all the time the backing vocals were rather breathless , so we had to dub them again in the recording studio . |
| 30 | On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians . |