Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indomitable Aunt Lou , whom nothing could shake . |
| 2 | Thursday 's The Late Show ( BBC 2 ) was presented by Cynthia Rose , to whom someone should speak about her big , swinging earrings . |
| 3 | On the other hand , there are those on both sides whom I would label ‘ meaning ’ theists and ‘ meaning ’ atheists , between whom a dialogue about God 's existence can take place . |
| 4 | At the same time these original articles , which were generally sympathetic to the Princess of Wales , proved to those around her , many of whom I would meet later , that at last her side of the story could be told fairly . |
| 5 | I was especially fond of my maternal grandparents ' dog , Luath , an exquisitely patient collie with whom I would sit for hours , pretending or half-pretending that we could read one another 's thoughts . |
| 6 | The soup seemed to fail in its purpose , and so did Herman , in whom I would have put my trust . |
| 7 | You , my comrade in arms , my friend for whom I would have given my life . ’ |
| 8 | Lastly , I would simply say that for weeks before the war was over , General whom I would like to call your attention to , was an Operations Officer and during the night when we were laying on missions we 'd say to each other , when this thing 's over we 're gon na get stinking drunk . |
| 9 | While still in London I would wake in the night to find the bed devoid of Nigel , whom I would find in the kitchen , drinking tea and pacing the floor . |
| 10 | ‘ Daughter and wife whom I 'll leave when I die ’ — the phrase came into his maudlin thoughts and he started crying convulsively . |
| 11 | In an attempt to solve this problem , I have used the experience gained from an analysis I once made of some Playschool programmes on BBC2 , and brought along some assistance , in the form of Big Ted and Little Ted , who will play the two speaker roles , and to whom I shall give an oral and a nasal voice respectively . |
| 12 | And , Sir , I come to crave of you a boon , that you will give me Rodrigo of Bivar to be my husband , with whom I shall hold myself well married , and greatly honoured ; for certain I am that his possessions will one day be greater than those of any man in your dominions . |
| 13 | One of the earlier attempts to account for this residual precession was by the astronomer Le Verrier , to whom I shall introduce you more properly in Chapter 13 . |
| 14 | By early November however , as the Dublin lock-out attacks against leaders of the trade unions and the Labour Party who seemed to be obstructing his plans for a general strike , not only in Dublin , but throughout Great Britain , vilifying them as " serpents whom I shall allow to raise their foul heads and spit out their poison no longer " and as having " neither soul to be saved nor body to be kicked " Almost overnight , support for Larkin turned into denunciation of his reckless methods and of his policy of attempting to bleed British unions of funds in support of sympathy strikes which seemed destined either to fail or to lead to unwanted revolution . |
| 15 | Let me illustrate this by introducing to you a man whom I shall call Tom , who was a member of my congregation in Durham . |
| 16 | Among the more fascinating of his cases is one of a woman ( whom I shall call Judith ) who , having regressed to being a young woman in a previous lifetime ( we 'll call her Alice ) , went on in a later session to regress to being Alice 's mother — who , it is interesting to note , had died at the precise moment her daughter was born . |
| 17 | The patient , whom I shall call Maxine , first came to see me because she had a phobia about water — a phobia which was becoming so exaggerated that she could not even bear to put her hands in water and had to rely on creams and lotions to cleanse her face and body . |
| 18 | I shall ascribe it to an imaginary person whom I shall call the attitudinist . |
| 19 | Next there is a group of colleagues whom I shall describe as the ‘ patriots ’ , who through love of country and a proper belief in its democratic institutions do not accept that the time has come to deny our nationality . |
| 20 | He did visit the King 's College and Boswell name-dropped regarding the chapel , wherein lies the fifteenth-century Bishop Elphinstone , ‘ of whom I shall have occasion to write , ’ declared Bozzy , ‘ in my history of James IV of Scotland , the patron of my family ’ : Auchinleck was granted to the Boswells in return for favours rendered . |
| 21 | If Councillor had actually stayed , he would know why this is so important to the people of whom I may say he has cruelly deserted by walking out of the debating chamber and what he 's saying to the people of is that Liberal Councillors A wo n't prepare speeches like his colleague earlier on or they wo n't stay in the debate they are not going to be properly represented when we take important decisions , both nationally and locally . |
| 22 | Is there no gentleman or lady of virtue in this neighbourhood to whom I may fly only till I can find a way to get to my poor father and mother ? |
| 23 | I did not know whom I might meet there , and cramped as I as I did not fancy my chances at running away if it came to a straight chase on a hard surface . |
| 24 | Nothing human was to be seen there — no man to whom I might call . |
| 25 | I checked the engine number with Perkins ( whom I might add were extremely pleasant and helpful ) who later found it to be the 4236 , rated at 82 bhp . |
| 26 | Wilson was obviously embarrassed by my statement and sought to identify any particular honorands whom I might have in mind . |
| 27 | At the end of 1976 I actually met several people , whom I could talk to , who acknowledged that they were gay and , as a consequence , I then subsequently admitted — and that 's the word I still use — that I was gay . |
| 28 | Presumably it 's also a lot to do with isolation , a lot to do with the fact that there was no one to talk to about the sexual experiences you were having and the only surrounding attitude was one of , ‘ This is something which should n't happen ’ , whereas the situation when I had my first sexual experience was one where I knew other people who were gay whom I could talk to . |
| 29 | There was no one of my age to whom I could talk , and I did n't want to venture out any more . |
| 30 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |