Example sentences of "and whom we " in BNC.

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1 In the control sample the picture was slightly different ; of the 13 who stated a preference at first interview for home care and whom we were able to interview again one year later , six stated an unequivocal preference for home care , five a preference for home care but a recognition of the necessity for , or a competing preference for , institutional care , and two a clear preference for institutional care .
2 When I diffidently approached him one afternoon , he was , as usual , mooning over a photograph of the troublesome Diedre , whom we all knew from the pictures he constantly thrust under our noses to be extremely good-looking , and whom we suspected of being a bit of a girl on the quiet .
3 Do you remember Stephen the gardener , and darling Bessie your nanny who still writes to me , and whom we found again when we went into Burma on our way home from Australia ?
4 Then we got on board the little " Fingal " and soon were joined by a number who had travelled with us when we came and whom we greeted as old friends .
5 Marriage to the Shah was , said Farah later , something of an unexpected challenge , " To marry a king — my king — the man for whom I and my friends felt such unbounded admiration , and whom we had so often watched , passing in some procession , while we cheered and waved flags …
6 Suppose we can rescue only some prisoners of tyranny ; justice hardly requires rescuing none even when only luck , not any principle , will decide whom we save and whom we leave to torture .
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