Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [noun] have [vb pp] for " in BNC.

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1 Generous to a fault , he had booked the ballroom suite at the best hotel in Lexington and a popular jazz band to entertain the several hundred guests whom Cora-Beth had invited for Harry 's party .
2 Kingsley Barrett , the Methodist , whom Ramsey had chosen for the faculty at Durham , wrote of his belief that a special providence must watch over the Church of England to give them at least some good bishops in spite of the deplorable method of their appointment .
3 There was also a mathematician there from the university who John has known for about thirty years and a young man from Rome , maybe the daughter 's boyfriend , who John also knew , as he , the young man , is the son of a scientific contact of John 's in Rome and the said Dave had sent son to John about two years ago to discuss what university course the son should do and where .
4 To mark the occassion a farewell dinner was given to Trevor and his wife Barbara at the Post House Hotel in Norwich , attended by Joint M.D. Rod Turnbull , Sales Directors Steve Higgins and Jack Millar , together with many colleagues and customers with whom Trevor had worked for many years .
5 How we need to pray that for each new church planted there will be those who understand this need and whom God has gifted for this task : to let the scriptures speak , and through the scriptures to let Jesus speak .
6 Pause for a moment and think of someone ( or more than one ) whom God has used for your own teaching , encouragement , guidance , perhaps in your youth or young adulthood or marriage , or at a crisis point in your life , or very recently .
7 Oddly enough , his father , whom Peter had known for a much shorter time , was quite distinct in his memory , right down to the smell of Palmolive shaving cream and Gold Leaf cigarettes .
8 And Tate proceeded to cite , with equanimity and approval , some of the non-English writers whom Eliot had solicited for The Criter- ion , or else had approved there : Charles Maurras , Paul Valéry , Henri Massis , Oswald Spengler — several of whom would not unjustly , though with the benefit of hindsight , be condemned later as Fascist or proto-Fascist .
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