Example sentences of "whom [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It arose out of a strike in July 1964 by ACTT television technicians claiming higher wages ( and an improvement in working conditions ) and it involved all the independent television companies , which included three for whom my firm acted . |
| 32 | I had a great opinion of my person and air , which had been remarked by many ladies whom my vanity thought to be very good judges of these outward advantages . |
| 33 | Behold , my servant , whom I uphold , My chosen , in whom my soul delights , I have put my Spirit upon him , He will bring forth justice to the nations . |
| 34 | Some strong-minded women , however , of whom my mother was one , did not take kindly to being parted from their most precious possession . |
| 35 | He was known for wanting to be photographed from every conceivable angle and vigorously applauded when making his inflammatory speeches , and I was looking forward to seeing in the flesh this extraordinary man of whom my parents had brought me up to disapprove . |
| 36 | Before the First World War , the younger women of the village , of whom my mother was one , used to walk from Mavhinje to Štivan ( San Giovanni ) , near the coast , and bring back pots of water on their heads . |
| 37 | Worked for the firm of with whom my grandfather was connected and also my uncle . |
| 38 | I seem to remember one of them , one whom my mother-in-law had never much cared for , loaded down on her way to the front door with ornaments and household bric-à-brac from stomach to chin . |
| 39 | It is precisely to direct extra resources to the pensioners , about whom my right hon. Friend is rightly concerned , that we have increased income support premiums for three successive years , providing more than £300 million extra in real terms . |
| 40 | It is certainly the case that in much of what is said about pension comparisons with Europe , areas that would lead to a substantial loss among some British pensioners , including those to whom my hon. Friend referred , are often overlooked . |
| 41 | We believe that the tenants about whom my hon. Friend has spoken are responsible people who are capable of taking a mature decision . |
| 42 | Thursday 's The Late Show ( BBC 2 ) was presented by Cynthia Rose , to whom someone should speak about her big , swinging earrings . |
| 43 | Broadly , a mercantile agent is an independent agent acting in a way of business to whom someone else entrusts his goods and upon whom is conferred authority of a type referred to in the Factors Act 1889 , section 1(1) . |
| 44 | Either book could be considered the masterpiece of someone whom I think of as among the most gifted authors now at work in England . |
| 45 | The journalists to whom I am referring can more solemnly be said to be practising a modern art of indirection , of the unintelligible and the interminable . |
| 46 | Your dear new uncle-in-law whom I was fortunate enough to encounter on the morning train from Paddington agrees that it would be nice if our friends from the constabulary were to join us . ’ |
| 47 | This is being conducted by Simon Holdaway , an ex-police officer turned academic , with whom I discussed the anthropological potential for police studies at a 1988 conference we both attended . |
| 48 | Our lists contained the names of the family ‘ prigs ’ we knew were professional thieves and burglars ; and of whom I was advised on my arrival in the department by an old detective : ‘ you only get one chance a year to nail these bastards if you are lucky , so when you do , its got to be watertight ’ . |
| 49 | He comes to work with me , in a residential home , and has also changed the lives of four mentally-handicapped people with whom I work . |
| 50 | In his ‘ A Study of English poetry ’ , which ran in The English Review from March to June 1912 , Newbolt refers to Pound as ‘ a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest ’ . |
| 51 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 52 | And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should . |
| 53 | Abse puts his faith in Heseltine , whom I have never been able to take seriously as a politician . |
| 54 | ‘ I look at the mothers to whom I am going to have say it and I say ‘ bloody hell , if I was in her shoes how would I feel , what would I do ? ’ |
| 55 | ‘ Of course the poetry 's no good , ’ grumbled a friend to whom I was praising this volume . |
| 56 | ‘ Look , ’ I said to the arresting officer , whom I will call Mr Pilcher , because that was his name . |
| 57 | Still , this orgy of food and sex would have suited the dear departed Peter Langan ( with whom I worked for four years ) very nicely . |
| 58 | ‘ Like Disneyland , ’ said the innocent , first-time Tory delegate with whom I shared a cab from the station . |
| 59 | Citing the case of one of the juveniles whom I had encountered the previous week : |
| 60 | He was a seriouslooking Welshman whom I had met several times back in England and around the orchard . |