Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh pn] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had made the gesture : these were people for whom you could safely slaughter a sheep . |
| 2 | Try smaller local companies who might benefit from some publicity or for whom you could attract extra business or perhaps create an enduring and prestigious work of art . |
| 3 | But while prevention — which must include support for carers — is essential , ignorance disempowers workers , carers and elderly people themselves , for whom it could even be fatal . |
| 4 | When they went out to a restaurant together , he would always complain — very loudly so that the proprietor would know who he was and so there would be people around about whom he could fuss were pestering him for his autograph . |
| 5 | Alongside , it grew other patterns of pastoral care and supervision , based upon organization by years , with year-tutors often moving up through the school with the pupils , at least some of whom they could teach on a regular basis . |
| 6 | Some had children of whom they could be proud ; some were ashamed of their offspring . |
| 7 | The party had 143 salaried staff , most of whom it could no longer afford to keep . |
| 8 | in the January edition of She magazine , but although it 's the January edition , it er does pertain to Christmas , because it 's all about the guests you invite to your home over the festive period , some of whom you could well do without . |
| 9 | Christina was already thinking about who she could ring who could contact Stephen . |
| 10 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 11 | With the exemplary Freedom and Rain in 1990 , I began to relent , although that was made with June Tabor , with whom they could hardly fail . |
| 12 | Other factors contributing to the high loss rate were lack of parental support , ridicule by their peers , and no examples of maturer Christians with whom they could identify . |
| 13 | He was a man , a friend , a fellow-rebel , a poet , with whom one could simply be oneself ; and write knowing that it was understood , respected . |
| 14 | She had an almost Germanic regard for order , and set about repairing the house , the stables , the outbuildings and conservatory with the willing and cheerful help of a small , dedicated band of local people , with whom she could relax and be herself , without putting up defences as she 'd had to do with the false Pyglings . |
| 15 | His line of chat , and a bonhomie which could at times border on insensitivity , marked him out for her as a survivor ; someone with whom she could risk herself ; someone who could both carry and withstand her . |
| 16 | What was she doing on Noah 's mountain alongside a pilgrim turned fanatic and a bearded peasant with whom she could not communicate , while the rock below them exploded like the gunpowder they had brought to ingratiate themselves with the local chieftains ? |
| 17 | Giles , in spite of his charm , was not the type of man she admired , still less the type with whom she could fall in love . |
| 18 | It was too dear to her to take on ‘ the degraded position of a woman who had forsaken husband and child and formed a union with her lover … she would always be a guilty woman continually threatened with exposure , deceiving her husband for the sake of a shameful union with a man who was a stranger and independent of her , and with whom she could not live a united life . |
| 19 | During the campaign she found 2 women with whom she could not work , they were dropped for the good of the project . |
| 20 | Luckily , he had a correspondent in his brother Theo in whom he could confide and with whom he could explore ideas about art ; the letters are thus an invaluable source of interpretation . |
| 21 | Mr Zamoyski was not entirely fluent in his adopted language , and there must be few people locally , other than his wife perhaps , with whom he could speak Polish . |
| 22 | He was also a friend of Lady Elcho through whom he was introduced to her special friend , A. J. Balfour , with whom he could discuss philosophy . |
| 23 | Someone with whom he could be free . |
| 24 | Left with no one with whom he could discuss the farm-work and stock when the day 's toil was over , Jonadab became more and more morose , spending most evenings staring into the fire or wandering from building to building , checking his animals . |
| 25 | As he walked further into the heart of the country , disappointed to find no painters with whom he could converse , he was struck by a desolation that matched his own worst moods . |
| 26 | He gave the impression that he was most disturbed about the occurrence and wanted someone with whom he could discuss it in safety . |
| 27 | As his wife , as his Louise , had slipped , there was no friend with whom he could share the sorrow he felt over his son . |
| 28 | There were no effective leaders with whom he could deal and , at this point , Congressional parties were of little help to a chief executive trying to meet his responsibility to govern . |
| 29 | Eliot was a lonely man , and Hayward was the only single person he knew with whom he could share a flat . |
| 30 | One such friend with whom he could relax , and to whom he sent a great deal of comic correspondence , was Mary Trevelyan . |