Example sentences of "whose [noun sg] he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was she the third person , whose presence he had always sensed ? |
| 2 | It suddenly flashed into Jack 's mind that this must be Ho , Mr Chan 's son — the boy he had been asked to protect and whose existence he had virtually forgotten in the confusion of events . |
| 3 | The first was an attempt to establish a privileged relationship with West Germany , to whose existence he had now reconciled himself . |
| 4 | He thanked them all but told them that ‘ his determination was to spend his life and time and talent in his own family , for whose benefit he had now parted with all his worldly estate among them ’ . |
| 5 | The raging optimism which it had instilled in him last night , under whose influence he had finally escaped from Merymose 's story , was now replaced by a simple whimpering plea to whatever god listened to self-pitying hangover sufferers just to let him be all right again , his own man , as soon as possible . |
| 6 | It was Ninette de Valois who put him in touch with John Piper , whose work he had already known and admired before leaving Cape Town , although only from reproductions , just as much as his musical knowledge came from recordings . |
| 7 | He did not show disappointment that it was a mere journalist and one who was more interested in a dead artist whose work he had never handled . |
| 8 | The proud Count of Barcelona was thus forced to recognize the abilities of the man whose service he had once refused . |
| 9 | Here was the women whose father he had unsuccessfully defended , to whom he had given a home and a job , who was supposed to be devoted to him . |
| 10 | To his second , favourite son Alfonso , he gave the Kingdom of Leon and the Campos Goticos , together with the tributes from the Moorish kingdom of Toledo , whose overlord he had successfully beaten into submission only a year before . |
| 11 | For his supporters , the resignation was an embarrassing puzzle : why had he resigned so soon after accepting the presidency , as a result of a quarrel with a " system " that he had largely created , over constitutional principles whose significance he had never bothered to explain to the French people ? |
| 12 | Adam , among his computers , reflected on the coypu man , whose bill he had later paid , but whom he had never seen again . |
| 13 | His energies were mainly given to evangelism and the study of prophecy , but he also tirelessly opposed the teaching of Catholics , Irvingites , and the Quakers whose communion he had earlier abandoned . |
| 14 | A description by an ancillary of the abilities of the school 's stencil cutter or Caramate slide-tape presenter can be the key to innovation , because the teacher suddenly recognizes what is possible , as distinct from a lot of theory whose implementation he has previously understood imperfectly if at all . |