Example sentences of "whom [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his autobiography A Little Learning ( 1964 ) Waugh was to observe that at the age of sixteen he noticed that his publisher father , ‘ whom I had grown up to accept with complete simplicity ’ , was in fact a highly gifted actor in everything he did . |
| 2 | ‘ I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created . ’ |
| 3 | He was a seriouslooking Welshman whom I had met several times back in England and around the orchard . |
| 4 | He brought with him , among others , the new Communist Transport Minister , Charles Fiterman , whom I had met the previous week . |
| 5 | He did not share my passion for Frank O'Hara , Robert Duncan , Denise Levertov ( whom I had met in London and Paris ) , James Merrill and the early Pound ; nor did I agree with his high estimate of Robert Lowell , Howard Nemerov and T.S . |
| 6 | He was a gentle little man rather like the steward from the Bremen whom I had met the night before . |
| 7 | On the return journey from Fairbanks to Edmonton I enjoyed a two-day stopover in Whitehorse where the manager of the new cinema , whom I had met on the way north , looked me up . |
| 8 | If she had n't approached me first I doubt I should have recognised her , she was so different from the plump , fresh-faced girl whom I had met on the train that January morning more than three years ago . |
| 9 | Just as I was writing this book I received a beautiful card from Sue Fuller whom I had met at the Town and Country Festival last year . |
| 10 | When Eritrea achieved de facto independence last year , 80 cars went from DC to New Jersey to the home of the veteran Eritrean labour leader Woldeab Wolde Mariam , whom I had met more than 20 years ago in exile in Aden , and brought him to the Washington community church , Saint Selassie . |
| 11 | Among others there was the Scottish advocate ( and future QC and Conservative MP ) Nicholas Fairbairn , a sartorial dandy with a razor-sharp mind whom I had met once or twice in the Borders . |
| 12 | I explained that I worked during the winter for a golf-mad stockbroker called Andrew Buccleuth whom I had met during my year on the amateur circuit . |
| 13 | But what really made the difference was that I got engaged to a girl called Jane Wilde , whom I had met about the time I was diagnosed with ALS . |
| 14 | In the middle of many clashes and difficulties were the men whom I had met , and to whom , if I had been a true friend , I might have given something of the faith and spirit which could have helped them find a better way for their people . |
| 15 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
| 16 | A new girl whom I had met previously at the school exchange joined my class and because the girl who had been my original friend still wanted my friendship in particular , jealousy began as both people wanted me ( oh , oh , so popular , eh ? ! ! ) |
| 17 | The Catholic intelligentsia had been highly critical of the way the government had conducted itself : Blackfriars , the Oxford Dominican journal , had taken a line which I found especially sympathetic ; and D'Arcy , to whom I had sent my article , wrote to me expressing approval of my stand . |
| 18 | On asking a young woman from whom I had collected books how she knew of the sale , I got the pleasing reply ‘ It 's the highlight of my year . ’ |
| 19 | Yet here they were , as large as life — Surkov with his long yellow hair and Rozanov with his attenuated face and his baldness — clearly the living people with whom I had boozed and improvised in Moscow , so long ago . |
| 20 | Fortunately , the Conservative Councillor , whom I had contacted , insisted on demanding that the approval must be conditional to restrictions on noise and traffic control being enforced . |
| 21 | In the grounds of the Elgin Cathedral , I mentioned to a passing man , a local , with whom I had fallen into conversation , ‘ Dr Johnson had a meal here , that was so bad he could n't eat it . ’ |
| 22 | I think of another man , to whom I had said something about Jesus Christ while marching down alongside him to an army parade ! |
| 23 | I could not in those days , see God for his creature , of whom I had made an idol . |
| 24 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 25 | I delivered Eliot to Magdalen , and was one of the first to arrive for the English Club meeting , accompanied by a Somerville girl to whom I had become attached . |
| 26 | The Chief-Corporal to whom I had given my sisters ' addresses at Canjuers was there , and he told me that he had sent my oldest sister a photograph of himself in a tank and one of his apartment in La Rochelle . |
| 27 | Earlier that evening we were visited by Brigadier Mills Roberts , accompanied by several senior Officers , whom I had seen on occasion at Petworth in Sussex ( Commando Group Headquarters ) . |
| 28 | We lost a man whom I had seen come to Christ , who was very gifted in personal evangelism , whom I saw as vital to the work and as a personal friend . |
| 29 | The BMA called a press conference on the emigration of doctors an hour beforehand , half the journalists went off to that , and the fierce women sent along by the pressure groups whom I had invited to liven up the occasion terrorised the few press men who remained into almost complete silence . |
| 30 | Every evening I had tea with the friend or two with whom I had arranged to mess for the " half " , as a term was known at Eton . |