Example sentences of "whom he [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another Australian case , Howe ( 1958 ) , D was attacked by a man , in an isolated place , whom he believed was trying to force him to commit sodomy . |
| 2 | He was not afraid to be seen deep in conversation with a Samaritan woman whom he knew was cohabiting with another man after having gone through five husbands . |
| 3 | At harvest feasts the distinctions between the farmer and the labourers whom he hired were relaxed . |
| 4 | He felt guilty towards the child who had not survived , for whom he had been named . |
| 5 | His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks . |
| 6 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 7 | Ten years later , after the death of Berlioz' second wife , with whom he had been living before Harriet 's death , he was obliged to disinter Marriet 's remains , because of the closure of the small cemetery in Montmartre where she was buried . |
| 8 | 4 After an argument with the woman with whom he had been living , D drove his lorry into her car and crushed her to death . |
| 9 | I keep hearing , supposedly true , stories about the new milkman to school who remained convinced for months that the secretary with whom he had been chatting regularly was the head ! |
| 10 | But he owed it to his brother and his own people to go warn and prepare them ; also he hoped that some of his retainers and tenants , from whom he had been detached since Berwick , might have survived Halidon and would win home . |
| 11 | An ambassador could still expect , at the end of his mission , to receive from the ruler to whom he had been accredited a farewell present which was often , particularly for special ambassadors of high social rank , of considerable value . |
| 12 | In Jennings , above , the accused had a sheathknife to protect himself from a person with whom he had been quarrelling . |
| 13 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
| 14 | Shortly after liberation in 1945 , he married Peggy Whitall , to whom he had been engaged for seven years . |
| 15 | He was accused of molesting a 14-year-old boy whom he had been counselling while working as a school chaplain . |
| 16 | Cynewulf was slain in 786 by a rival aetheling , Cyneheard , the brother of the former king , Sigeberht , whom he had been seeking to expel from Wessex ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) , and succeeded by Beorhtric . |
| 17 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |
| 18 | He had a daughter as well now whom he had been tempted to call Lilian but had seen the unwisdom of this in time and named her Bridget . |
| 19 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 20 | In Henry , Arnulf finally found the potential monarch for whom he had been searching . |
| 21 | Because he thought that he was dealing with the National Press rather than simply a few local people whom he had been ignoring for a considerable time , the Mayor responded to direct questioning , even if he did not change his colours . |
| 22 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 23 | A Spanish recruit I had been playing poker against started making faces and gesturing behind the Padre 's back , when suddenly , without taking his eyes off the Frenchman to whom he had been talking , the priest jerked his elbow backwards into the Spaniard 's face , slamming him against an oven . |
| 24 | All he could remember was that TOWs were shipped at some point ; that ‘ the price asked for the military was twelve million two ’ ; that the aircraft could turn round and abort the delivery if the hostages were not released , which he thought was ‘ a most unusual thing ’ ; and that it was definitely not ‘ the Khomeini ’ with whom he had been doing business . |
| 25 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
| 26 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 27 | For so many years himself a master-manufacturer at New Lanark , he might fairly be supposed still to see virtue in those among whom he had been numbered . |
| 28 | Ten minutes later he was joined by the couple for whom he had been waiting . |
| 29 | DPP ( 1954 ) D , who was sexually impotent , was taunted about his impotence and kicked in the groin by a prostitute with whom he had been attempting to have sexual intercourse , whereupon he lost self-control and killed her . |
| 30 | MINTON 'S success as a commercial artist owed much to his association with John Lehmann , to whom he had been introduced by Vaughan . |