Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [pron] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever lucky chances there were and miraculous escapes , all through history there have been despoliations , deprivations , tearings asunder , deaths and devastations , and among those to whom nothing is restored must be people around us , people we see . |
| 2 | In one half lived the miner Charles Decrucq and his family , and in the other a fellow evangelist of whom nothing is known , except that his surname was Frank . |
| 3 | Her husband , about whom nothing is known , probably died young , leaving her a widow with a small income which she supplemented by teaching . |
| 4 | His estate , valued at £100 , was left to his wife , Mary , about whom nothing is known . |
| 5 | Judde married three times : first , Mary , daughter of Sir Thomas Mirfyn , himself a skinner and lord mayor of London in 1518 ; second , Agnes , about whom nothing is known ; and third , Mary , daughter of Thomas Mathews of Colchester and wealthy widow of another skinner , Thomas Langton . |
| 6 | So often her only resource is tears , and those tears will more likely arouse panic rather than understanding from the man with whom she is trying to communicate . |
| 7 | Perhaps the Egyptian goddess after whom she is named was watching over her — but she herself attributes her escape from serious injury entirely to Medau . |
| 8 | When she first begins to talk , she uses two different types of speech : egocentric speech , a kind of monologue , when she chatters on without bothering to know whom she is speaking to or even whether they are listening ; and socialized speech , a sign of growing maturity and decentring , when she tries to carry on a conversation , reacting to what the other person says . |
| 9 | ‘ Is n't that what life 's all about ? ’ says Steve , ‘ you 're born and you die at 75 and you 're one of millions of people who no-one 's going to remember . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd be very grateful , Mr O'Hara , ’ he said , ‘ if you tried to find out , discreetly , of course , who she 's calling . |
| 11 | I 'd be failing in my duty if I did n't make it my business to know who she 's consorting with . ’ |
| 12 | I du n no , I du n no who she 's going out with , but I 've seen her , I 've seen her in the car in the morning when I , like this morning I was walking in , she was in the car just getting the old , but I do n't know if he works here or not , she 's got to be going out with somebody . |
| 13 | Bet 's got to fill out who she 's talking to and what they are to her |
| 14 | This testing of bassanio , her own husband who she is meant to love and trust , tells us how cunning , powerful and suspicious she really is . |
| 15 | At least she does not recognize who she is talking to , for God is in strange disguise . |
| 16 | Who who 's heckling there who 's chiming up ? |
| 17 | Are we allowed to know who who 's making the recordings ? |
| 18 | Who who 's gon na who |
| 19 | Erm So we come now to tossing , who who 's going to call ? |
| 20 | that 's the that 's the point of er conjecture you see , they 're not s they 're not sure who who 's going to take over |
| 21 | Who who is going to that one ? |
| 22 | ‘ It was Guido 's arch-rival who he 's beaten into second place twice … he 's the one who took it , and now he 's been arrested . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Just that I 've found out a bit more about our friend Martin 's business dealings , and , more importantly , who he 's dealing with . |
| 24 | Du n no who he 's speaking to , Lisa or me . |
| 25 | The this problem with the detector , it 's another level of subcontracting down and er if you you 're buying a piece of equipment of this kind from a a consortium er essentially you ca n't dictate to him precisely who he 's going to use to supply the components for that system and er it is the problem came to the notice of officials when the consortium came forward and and said look , we we 've got these terms in our contract er concerning detection range and so on and er we may not be able to meet those , er so we questioned the reasons and then of course they revealed that they were having problems with the supplier . |
| 26 | Now I want you to think about the person who he 's going to talk to . |
| 27 | He 's remembered that Daddy was n't there either ; he 's remembered who he 's talking to and he 's just sober enough to mind his p's and q's . |
| 28 | I thought , I hope she knows who he 's talking to ! |
| 29 | and half way through a composition he ca n't remember who he 's talking to and things like that |
| 30 | Whatever procedure is followed must ensure that : ( 1 ) the expert has the basic information about the issue he is to decide and who he is to decide it between ; ( 2 ) the expert has a copy of the contract with the expert clause . |