Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun prp] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His lore says that Abraham Stoker , a graduate of Trinity College , Dublin , had given faithful service as general amanuensis to Sir Henry Irving , the fearsome Victorian actor-manager — for whom Stoker had given up his civil service career . |
| 2 | It is at this stage that it becomes necessary to record a debt of gratitude to Headingley , for whom Ian had played at club level and who suggested he might be interested in coaching . |
| 3 | Negotiations with Exeter , for whom Bastin had signed professionally only weeks before , were successfully concluded , but Bastin himself , showing remarkable maturity for his age , saw his training as an electrical engineer as a sounder career prospect than Arsenal . |
| 4 | And what of John Deacon , for whom Neil has deputised on recent occasions ? |
| 5 | Morpurgo was some harmless retarded constituent for whom Dysart had provided employment and accommodation . |
| 6 | When he was killed Vincent Massey , the High Commissioner for Canada , and Mr Justice Lawrence , the High Court Judge for whom Dermot had marshalled , wrote appreciations of him in The Times , a remarkable tribute in this time of war to an unknown young man . |
| 7 | Peter Chapple-Hyam , for whom Lester has won four Group 1 races on Rodrigo De Triano this year , said : ‘ It is up to him — it 's his life . |
| 8 | The third file concerned a boy Berdichev had taken a personal interest in ; a Clayborn child from the Recruitment Project for whom Berdichev had paid the extraordinary sum of ten million yuan . |
| 9 | Barrow was a White Knight — headhunted to fight off a corporate raider — for whom Kennecott had to pay over $1m. in order to match a clause in Barrow 's contract with Exxon which allowed him bonuses in line with the rising price of the company 's stock . |
| 10 | Stratford , a royal diplomat , had been provided to Winchester in 1323 against the wishes of the king and paid a heavy penalty for it : his temporalities were seized and exploited for a year , and even after they were restored Stratford was placed under recognizances of £10,000 to the king ( £2000 down and the rest conditional upon his good conduct ) , £1000 to the Despensers , and 1000 marks to the chancellor , Robert Baldock , a clerk for whom Edward had intended the bishopric ; moreover , Stratford was summoned to answer in the King 's Bench for his conduct of a royal mission to the papacy . |
| 11 | The savages , whose natural nobility was compared favourably with our own , were not the imaginary inhabitants of another world , but , most emphatically , real people about whom Montaigne had received reliable information from an eye-witness observer . |
| 12 | The alleged plot by Manoon had been cited as a justification by the military for staging the February 1991 coup [ see p. 38004 ] , shortly after which Manoon had fled the country . |
| 13 | How did she relax and let herself trust again , after what Mortimer had done to her . |
| 14 | I understood why , after what Rupert had told me . |
| 15 | After what Tolonen had said to him earlier he had hoped for the appointment himself . |
| 16 | After what Clive had done for him , he would be forever in his debt . |
| 17 | After what Jeff had told her about Guido Falcone , the only feelings she ought to have for him were disapproval and dislike . |
| 18 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 19 | Even Roxburgh had to admit that over the last year , during which Ferguson has flirted with letting the latter trait get the better of the former , has brought the player an ‘ awareness of the tough , competitive business he is in . ’ |
| 20 | Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) . |
| 21 | By contrast , trade unionism through which Owen had intended to organise the Country as an industrial democracy stayed out in the legal cold . |
| 22 | Mortimer crouched at the corner of the short tunnel through which Benny had entered the previous day . |
| 23 | The hole through which Harry had fallen was in the centre of the ceiling . |
| 24 | This trend had culminated in a loss of A$1,300 million ( approximately US$1,020 million ) by Tricontinental , the merchant banking arm of the State Bank of Victoria , through which Cain had attempted to promote industrial regeneration within the state . |
| 25 | That treaty contains many ideas for which Britain has fought long and hard . |
| 26 | True , it was not so spectacular as earlier assaults on it , such as the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 , so it is hardly surprising that Israeli leaders should have so contemptuously dismissed it , so patently failed to understand its revolutionary import : that , for the first time , the enemy was offering the prospect of the civilised , peaceful , negotiated settlement for which Israel had clamoured since its foundation . |
| 27 | In another move , Brabant Resources , for which Aberdeen has made an all-share offer , said it had received a second bid approach which could lead to a cash offer . |
| 28 | The scheme , for which Greece has applied for Ecu80 million in funding from the EC , aims to divert water from the Acheloos river to irrigate agricultural land on the Plain of Thessaly . |
| 29 | Gardeners from the National Trust at Petworth Park , Sussex , have used Capability Brown 's original designs to plant a four-acre plot for which Brown had sketched out a plan in 1750 but never carried out . |
| 30 | My brother had enlisted in the Grenadier Guards , and was at Camberley , but my mother and sister were still in Merstham ; and it seemed to me that , in the event of a German landing , for which Churchill had alerted the public , a place as safe as any would be my Wiltshire village of Seend , where there was a delightful little Guest House , kept by a Mrs Earle . |