Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent the next few days talking to Cabinet colleagues — all of whom shared my view that the demand was preposterous — and then went to see the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | She coped with the frankly curious looks of the men , one of whom made her blush as he kissed her hand by saying , ‘ No wonder Ludo does not get out of bed in the morning . ’ |
| 3 | Apart from this , she was angry with Jamila for marrying Changez , the sight of whom made her feel ill . |
| 4 | Rebecca Hall then came up with four other volunteers … all of whom admitted they were n't farmers . |
| 5 | If Quaid 's role seems contrived and the film betrays signs of forced editing in the abrupt , jerky resolution of an expansive but slackly focused narrative , COME SEE THE PARADISE has notable compensations : convincing performances from an unknown cast ( some of whom passed their childhood in the camps ) , a sharp sense of the sometimes bizarre and humorous manifestations of cultural miscegenation and a detailed evocation of period and locale . |
| 6 | His clever course management in the wake of continuous swing problems had made Olazabal a huge favourite with the Sun City galleries , many of whom rated him the superior of Seve Ballesteros , a two-time winner of the event . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh fairest of creation , last and best of all God 's works , creature in whom excelled whatever can to sight or thought be formed , wholly divine , good , amiable or sweet , how art thou lost ? |
| 8 | Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much . |
| 9 | Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much . |
| 10 | Sheila Hancock was in that film too , as was Nanette Newman , both of whom told me how Ken would while away his time discussing the medical advances of which apparently the medical staff in the picture were not aware . |
| 11 | Another implication of ( 16 ) , or ( 15 ) , is that , apart from questioning the adjective , the language would also provide a means to question the noun phrase alone while " leaving behind " the predicate qualifier ( even though one might not expect such questions to be particularly common in practice ) , and in fact such questions are perfectly grammatical : ( 21 ) who(m) did he paint seated ? what did he send registered ? |
| 12 | He was extremely rude to a lot of people , some of whom vowed they would never speak to him again . |
| 13 | The last time Ballater had been in the cottage was just before Miss Marshall had been forced out of it by her rapacious relatives , backed up by the insensitive local general practitioner who agreed she could n't cope . |
| 14 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 15 | In April the Department of Education issued a specimen paper of the new test to howls of protest from teachers who branded it ‘ horrendous ’ , ‘ unbelievable ’ and ‘ quite intimidating ’ . |
| 16 | According to Irish religion , Macha ( or Machas ) referred to a compound trinity of goddesses who concerned themselves with childbirth , agriculture and war . |
| 17 | Clearly there can be no simple answer to such a question , but we need to appreciate that , until the eighteenth century , the speculative moral philosophers who concerned themselves with such issues did not have to bother about the practical implications of their argument . |
| 18 | The British Mesozoic Committee ( who concerned themselves with such matters ) therefore found it impossible to accept the stratotype concept as it is usually proclaimed on the continent . |
| 19 | The man who succeeded him as Secretary General of the Young Communists , Carlos Contreras Maluje , was picked up after putting up a struggle in the street . |
| 20 | His twenty-three year old son who succeeded him , Edward II , chose not to continue the challenge and returned to London and marry Isabella , the daughter of King Philip IV of France . |
| 21 | After this he will be required to make it over to a family member , just as any heir who succeeded him from outside the family would be required to do . |
| 22 | The difficulty is that the Earl of Orford , who did not die until 5 December 1791 , was named George , while his uncle who succeeded him as fourth Earl was named Horatio , although he disliked this name , and called himself Horace Walpole instead . |
| 23 | John , Lord Carteret [ later Earl of Granville ] , who succeeded him , was under no illusions about France , which he identified as ‘ the enemy always aiming at our destruction ’ ; periods of peace with her he considered ‘ only an intermission of hostility ’ . |
| 24 | James Callaghan , who succeeded him as prime minister , was brought up a Baptist . |
| 25 | Both the Duke of Somerset , the King 's uncle , who became Protector , and the Duke of Northumberland , who succeeded him , were supporters of religious reform , which Cranmer could now advance . |
| 26 | When John McEnroe stunned the tennis world by beating Boris Becker at the Australian Open , after a succession of resounding defeats from the player who succeeded him as Wimbledon Champion in 1985 , he described it as ‘ getting a monkey off my back . ’ |
| 27 | Edward III always recognised the importance of noble support in his wars , and , both in his reign and in that of his grandson , Richard II who succeeded him in 1377 , the nobility led from the front . |
| 28 | It would not , however , have been possible without the support of McKenna and the Ministers who succeeded him . |
| 29 | Edgar and two brothers who succeeded him , Alexander and David , achieved something quite unusual : all three died peacefully . |
| 30 | Austen Chamberlain , who succeeded him , had little skill in party leadership . |