Example sentences of "[Wh pn] she [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The road between San Biagio and Montepulciano is the one down which the Montepulcianesi came to welcome Iris Origo and the troupe of refugee children whom she walked to safety across a battlefield in June 1944 , caught between the German army of occupation and the advancing Allies . |
| 2 | In fact , in her uncomfortable lock-up , she managed to play the hostess to royalty , to HRH the Duke of Sussex , whom she entertained to dinner . |
| 3 | In this new life which had been thrust upon her , she felt that she must surround herself with a little group of servants whom she knew to be loyal to her . |
| 4 | She was uncertain as to the position of this girl whom she knew to be daughter to a washerwoman but whom the dowager-duchess , a lady of formal demeanour and rigid etiquette , none the less treated as one of higher status . |
| 5 | Shortly afterwards Jane went to a friend 's house in Kensington to a musical party where a famous quartet was playing and , sitting on the stairs , talked to someone whom she took to be one of the players . |
| 6 | The library 's sole occupant , an elderly man whom she took to be Bill , looked up interrogatively from the newspaper he was reading . |
| 7 | Within seconds she was confronted by a tall man whom she took to be in his late forties , but who , she guessed , could n't be quite that if he was Rosie 's brother . |
| 8 | She founded a Hindu College at Benares , adopted the 14-year-old Krishnamurti , whom she believed to be the earthly vehicle of the new World Teacher , and played an important part in the campaign for Indian self-government . |
| 9 | At Gloucester Crown Court in August 1986 a young mother was found guilty of killing her four-year-old son whom she believed to be the devil . |
| 10 | Agnes watched the young , plump , matronly lady look at the young man , whom she imagined to be the same age as his wife . |
| 11 | After her interview with J. D. O'Connor she had mitigated her whoppers to Matey and Dr Neil by moving on to the West End , where she walked along Oxford Street , entering Mr Gordon Selfridge 's store , gazing as raptly at its wonders as though she were truly the poor girl whom she pretended to be , the whole place seeming quite different now that she no longer had her papa 's bottomless purse at her command . |
| 12 | She had taken it into her head to befriend the new lass whom she considered to be a cut above the rest — which is to say , she did n't curse or spit . |
| 13 | Help us , she implored silently , not knowing whom she spoke to , and for a moment her despair went on mounting . |
| 14 | She had therefore sent advance copies to Prince Albert , the Earl of Shaftesbury and Charles Kingsley to whom she referred to ‘ that awful book I have been forced to write ’ . |
| 15 | At one point she told Nick that if Hayling — whom she referred to as ‘ that nice-looking young man with the curly hair ’ — came round again she would refuse to let him in . |
| 16 | Mr Thomas , of the Bungalow Store , Stratford Road , Hartlepool , said he believed Jackie and a 16-year-old paperboy who she ran to for help had handled the situation well . |
| 17 | The widow claimed to be particular about who she let to and told her a great deal about the other lodgers ; a musician and a German student , both women , and one man , a writer . |
| 18 | Probably making a mental note of it , already determined to check out that she was who she claimed to be , and not Lotta 's mischievous accomplice . |
| 19 | It proved a disastrous union — ‘ Salo ’ , the inferior player , became brutally jealous of his wife 's game , and accused her of flirting with whomever she happened to be playing . |