Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dziekanowski did not play at Wembley last summer — he was suspended after walking out on his then club Legia Warsaw — but clearly he is in the mood to test the English defenders whom Bobby Robson has been casting as his unsung heroes . |
| 2 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 3 | Aleksei Ermolov , the Russian commander in the Caucasus whom Paskevich replaced in 1827 , had been pursuing a conciliatory or " regionalist " policy for more than a decade . |
| 4 | ‘ Now look , Connie me pet , it 's bleedin' cold in the parlour , ’ complained Archie , ‘ and , anyway , I got to see a bloke about a job . ’ |
| 5 | This makes sense to the degree that one of the legal authorities whom Coke most often cites is Bracton ( Henry de Bracton , De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ) , who dies in 1268 , having flourished under Henry III of England and during the minority of Henry 's son , the future Edward I. Moreover Edward and Eleanor spent the winter of 1270–71 in Sicily , en route to the Holy Land , and returned there in 1272 for Edward to learn that , his father having died , he was king of England . |
| 6 | O'Brien is much the same age as Charles , and a man of huge industry and enthusiasm whom Charles is able to spark ideas off . |
| 7 | He stroked the strings , and before the echo of them died , he said , ‘ Señorita me quieres ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Of course them girls are fond of me ! ’ |
| 9 | There stood falcon-headed Horus , and bronze Osiris whom Seth brought back to life by fellation . |
| 10 | Dunne himself went out of his way to insist that his theory was free from any occult taint ; but An Experiment with Time , revised and expanded in 1934 , was to remain in print for over half a century ; and ironically , it won the reputation of doing more to convince the general public of the reality of clairvoyance , in the form of precognition , than all the labours of the psychical researchers whom Dunne so mistrusted . |
| 11 | Oo ar , Jim me lad , it 's cut-and-thrust duelling onboard the pirate ship |
| 12 | In the following year these became even tougher : he demanded the crown of France ; then he reduced this to the territories of Angevin days , Normandy , Maine , Anjou , Touraine , Aquitaine ( to include Poitou , part of the concession made by the princes at Bourges in 1412 ) , together with the substantial arrears still due for the ransom of John II and , following the now well-established pattern , the hand of a daughter of the French king , this time Catherine , sister to Isabella whom Richard II had married in 1396 , together with a dowry . |
| 13 | The locals consisted of the party of Sloanes Molly had seen at Nancy Leadbetter 's and another English family with two teenage sons whom Haverford , loudly and explicitly , urged his eldest grand-daughter to ‘ get off with ’ or ‘ drag away to the disco ’ , although he did n't suggest where a disco might be found in Mondano . |
| 14 | This included a number of parachute-trained personnel whom Stirling was naturally keen to recruit . |
| 15 | He had seen the young French clerk whom Celeste had seduced , be broken in a matter of days and confess to whatever question had been put to him . |
| 16 | Indeed , once the mother of one of Greg 's friends rang up about some arrangements the boys had made together , and she said , ‘ Oh , by the way , I 've only just learned that Greg 's sister whom Richard talks about is adopted . ’ |
| 17 | On this evidence therefore it seems possible that , on the evening of 14 May , AFHQ was working on the assumption that Loehr 's forces , including hundreds of thousands of Germans , had already surrendered to 5 Corps or were about to do so , and therefore that the German element in those forces might be included in the " 500,000 " Germans whom AFHQ was asking SHAEF/12th Army Group to take over . |
| 18 | We had a real good time but of course me dad had to spoil it when I got home . |
| 19 | They 're only ninety nine P them June ! |
| 20 | What did I send off to get Gary them radio earphones ? |
| 21 | Daisy was Fred 's bird , a freckled teenager with red tabby hair whom Arthur had entrusted with a slice of his savings so that she could open a boutique . |
| 22 | But certainly here , for the clearest moment in Eliot 's later plays the savage and the Christian are joined in reproach of the oversophisticated city ; , though it is essential , too , to remember that that city also contains Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly whom Eliot once described as possibly ‘ a god in the machine ’ . |
| 23 | One day she sed to him ‘ go and git me sum lavertry pearper ’ . |
| 24 | It was Gauguin whom Maugham had made the hero of The Moon and Sixpence . |
| 25 | You can be a sex symbol when you 're sixty-five ; there are film stars like Paul Newman whom women still think are gorgeous . |
| 26 | And if the gentleman having to put bandages on a lady and you want to put your hand underneath there just excuse me a moment , alright , because in the exam one row of you will certainly going to have a lady bandage okay , put slings on and to bandage so it 's just as well not to get to you know used to bandaging up great big chaps and then you 'll find you 've got some little tiny five foot two or five foot nothing lady bandaging in exam , alright , so swap around , so get yourselves so you 've got a partner and use your bandages and let's just see you do the high sling to start . |
| 27 | Watch this five foot nothing space . |
| 28 | At the end of five 40-minute sittings my portrait is finished . |
| 29 | OUTLAW POSSE My Afro 's On Fire ( Gee Street ) Thoughtful lyrics and funky beats from London 's new school of hip hop . |
| 30 | Brick by brick my despair built . |