Example sentences of "a [noun] whom " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story , gently explored , was that this condition began after the death of a sister whom she had failed to visit during her final illness , in spite of having been sent for . |
| 2 | But Ven , she discovered , was not prepared to let her off the hook , and , ‘ Why … ’ he began to challenge , ‘ … when you 're honest , I know it , yet have begun on a path of deception to one particular end — why , when it 's so important to your sister whom — you love … ’ an alert look suddenly came to his eyes , and he broke off for a brief moment before continuing , his serious dark eyes holding hers ‘ … a sister whom you 'd do anything for , as you proved when you left England and came here — why are you ready to leave now , without another thought ? ’ |
| 3 | Sheldon himself never lied to his friends about the mummy and we have to be grateful to Faujas Saint-Fond for the following account written shortly after a visit he had made on Sheldon : ‘ It is [ said Sheldon ] a mistress whom I tenderly loved . |
| 4 | This would explain the cases where the plaintiff accepts a lift with a driver whom he knows is drunk . |
| 5 | They will be concerned with the status of the source ; statements may be accepted quite uncritically from a peer whom the receptors admire and emulate . |
| 6 | Constanza saw it all too well : Anna above all needed a future and here it was , a son-in-law whom she could help to make his way in the world . |
| 7 | In the partnership agreement itself it should perhaps not be made too easy for partners to leave , though in practice , of course , an unhappy or unsatisfied partner is a liability whom the firm will usually want to see depart at the earliest convenient time . |
| 8 | Werner 's " General " turned out to be the commander of the armed forces in southern Celebes — a figure whom we would normally have done our utmost to avoid , given his political power and our absence of filming permits , but he turned out to be an exuberantly friendly man who never asked for them . |
| 9 | Apparently he was under the impression that she had arranged to see Richard again tonight ; he was also under the delusion that Richard was a Belgian whom she had just happened to pick up . |
| 10 | Everyone , but especially the two Lewises , loved the zoo , and Jack made friends with a bear whom he nicknamed Bultitude . |
| 11 | " Silent Cal " , with his belief that " the business of the United States is business " , was a president whom Americans could trust . |
| 12 | She was alone , at night , in a deserted unfamiliar area , with a stranger whom she had only met 5 minutes before . |
| 13 | But , if the wife has been in receipt of the advice of a stranger whom the creditor believes on reasonable grounds to be competent , independent and disinterested , then the circumstances would need to be very exceptional before the creditor could be held bound by any equity which otherwise might arise from the husband 's conduct and his wife 's actual failure to understand the transaction … |
| 14 | After a fortnight , Fred saw what was likely to happen and went to a lawyer whom he trusted . |
| 15 | Our builder suggested a lady whom he referred to as ‘ Barney ’ , who lived in a nearby village and had holiday cottages of her own . |
| 16 | He laughs , and clings to the notion that Ishmael is the child of the promise ( a child whom he had allowed when still unborn to be driven into the wilderness to die ! ) . |
| 17 | And in the Manse behind him was a girl , a child whom he had taken last night in a fit of lust and self-pity . |
| 18 | When a girl whom I knew only as Meriel remarked , as we were washing up the cocoa-cups , that she was ‘ brought up in a bog ’ , and I commented naïvely that she had no trace of Irish accent , the unassuming daughter of the Earl of Meath merely smiled . |
| 19 | She gave birth in 1970 to a boy whom she named Caleb James , but it was not until five years later that she said Nicholson was the father . |
| 20 | On 17 April 1856 , shortly before they left for Clerkenwell , Elizabeth gave birth to a boy whom they named Charles Frederick . |
| 21 | At the White House , a medic whom JFK called ‘ Dr Feelgood ’ regularly gave him shots containing amphetamines . |
| 22 | In his opus , Irenaeus fulminates against a group whom he calls the ‘ Ebionites ’ — a term used by the writers of the Qumran texts to describe themselves , which can be translated as , simply , ‘ the Poor ’ . |
| 23 | Sometimes I have wondered if Elizabeth , for once the contrary of Jane Austen , had said to herself : ‘ I shall make a heroine whom no one but I shall dislike . ’ |
| 24 | The other woman , as if torn between a friend whose authority she respected and a husband whom she loved , explained with melancholy , ‘ What can I do , that 's how he is ! |
| 25 | At another place a wife is bidding good-bye to a husband whom duty calls hence . |
| 26 | A Perfect Stranger bound on next , all fresh-faced and youthfully exuberant and with a fine-voiced giant of a singer whom I ca n't look at without thinking of Spandau 's Tony Hadley . |
| 27 | Macnab went on holiday to Berlin with a letter from Joyce to Christian Bauer , a contact whom they had made in London and who was said to be on good terms with Goebbels . |
| 28 | Patrick is still having difficulties with girls : the married man keeps going to bed with them , not liking it very much and not liking the distress it brings to a wife whom he does like and who is carefully crafted to be likeable . |
| 29 | As we went away to the sounds of Mrs Otto 's profuse good-byes , I reflected on the nature of the relationship between her and Otto , almost the opposite to what one might have expected : the gallant captain going off to sea where his authority was absolute and his orders brooked no delay , and returning to a wife whom he clearly adored but where the roles were reversed . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) … a doctor shall be under no obligation to give treatment personally if such reasonable steps as are appropriate are taken to ensure continuity of treatment , and treatment may be given — ( a ) by another doctor acting as a deputy … ( b ) if it is treatment which it is clinically reasonable in the circumstances to delegate , by a person whom the doctor had authorised and who is competent to carry out such treatment . ’ |