Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] [Wh pn] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dante could turn aside from his most sublime passages of religious contemplation to hone a gratuitous insult for the benefit of Florentine families whom he happened to dislike . |
| 2 | The Pahls in their study had quite a high rate of non-co-operation : twenty of the group of 113 managers whom they wanted to study did not complete the questionnaire ( although the response rate was higher from the wives ' postal questionnaire ) ; of the twenty-nine couples who were asked to give home interviews , six refused and six did not answer the letter . |
| 3 | Michael was one of that old school of English gentlemen whom you never see nowadays in the era of the yob . |
| 4 | Yes I think there 's some , yeah yeah I , I think there 's , that 's one of the , the areas where er as it were attitudes are most small C conservative , that er sort of liberal heterosexuals whom I know er you know are often quite suspicious of that . |
| 5 | On Sept. 12 , 1989 , the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct , the Ethics Committee , voted to begin a preliminary inquiry into whether Barney Frank ( Dem. , Massachusetts ) had violated House rules in procuring the services of male prostitutes who he later hired as personal aides . |
| 6 | In December 1989 Najibullah had arrested a large number of Khalqi officers whom he suspected of plotting against him [ see p. 37184 ] . |
| 7 | At his funeral she is surprised by the appearance of three Americans whom she has never seen before . |
| 8 | And at the same time there came before him Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count , who fell on her knees before him and said , Sir , I am the daughter of Count Don Gomez of Gormaz , and Rodrigo of Bivar has slain the Count my father , and of three daughters whom he has left I am the youngest . |
| 9 | Er if you couple that with the action of Eastern Arts who I understand have cut the subsidy er for this er theatre I think that 's correct , erm , as I understand on the grounds that a not enough they mean imaginative or progressive which to me means weird play to put on . |
| 10 | A report in El País of Sept. 13 claimed that the ministries concerned had set a ceiling of 100,000 on the numbers of illegal immigrants whom they were prepared to legalize within the current amnesty programme ( which was to close on Dec. 10 ) . |
| 11 | The Reverend Peter Green warned in How to Deal with Lads ( 1911 ) of how ‘ the club is rushed by a swarm of rough lads whom you do n't know and over whom it is impossible to exercise any control ’ . |
| 12 | ED BICKNELL is manager of Dire Straits who he says that he wanted to represent within five minutes of seeing them live . |
| 13 | May the House not forget , through the Secretary of State , the workmates of those relatives who I am sure today , as they go about their legal business and pursue their employment , must have their own personal thoughts against the background of Friday 's events . |
| 14 | Similarly , mothers of babies and children tend to look towards the experience and activities of those women whom they perceive as " successful " , " caring " and " attractive " in the maternal role . |
| 15 | Fastolf sought , and obtained , compensation for this , admittedly ten years later , and also claimed a right to the ransoms of various merchants whom he had freed from Remon . |
| 16 | We had recently begun to shelter a young man who had deserted from the Italian army in the south and had somehow managed , with the help of various Italians whom he met on the way , to reach Fontanellato . |
| 17 | After some confusion over the ordering , Haverford gave them a lengthy account of his love affair with one of a pair of identical twins whom he 'd met at a Red Mole party in 1965 . |
| 18 | The Bentleys were the tenth set of prospective purchasers whom he had shown round the house . |
| 19 | The UVF claimed responsibility for the shootings on Jan. 4 and Jan. 30 of Catholic civilians who it claimed were members of the IRA . |
| 20 | Erm it was myself , Paul an employee , erm a couple of other employees who I believe to be Dave and . |
| 21 | He also assured the committee that he was a judge of moderate instincts whom they could trust to approach all issues with an open mind , and who was able to understand and sympathise with the tribulations of his fellow US citizens . |
| 22 | Rather than remarking on seasonal changes in the surrounding foliage , the majority of New Yorkers whom I met would relish a detailed discussion about the subtle fluctuations in Real Estate Value . |
| 23 | Of two women whom she mentions in her acknowledgements in Texts of Terror she remarks : ‘ They themselves rendered to God , even the God of terror . ’ |