Example sentences of "whom i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either book could be considered the masterpiece of someone whom I think of as among the most gifted authors now at work in England . |
| 2 | The journalists to whom I am referring can more solemnly be said to be practising a modern art of indirection , of the unintelligible and the interminable . |
| 3 | Your dear new uncle-in-law whom I was fortunate enough to encounter on the morning train from Paddington agrees that it would be nice if our friends from the constabulary were to join us . ’ |
| 4 | This is being conducted by Simon Holdaway , an ex-police officer turned academic , with whom I discussed the anthropological potential for police studies at a 1988 conference we both attended . |
| 5 | Our lists contained the names of the family ‘ prigs ’ we knew were professional thieves and burglars ; and of whom I was advised on my arrival in the department by an old detective : ‘ you only get one chance a year to nail these bastards if you are lucky , so when you do , its got to be watertight ’ . |
| 6 | He comes to work with me , in a residential home , and has also changed the lives of four mentally-handicapped people with whom I work . |
| 7 | In his ‘ A Study of English poetry ’ , which ran in The English Review from March to June 1912 , Newbolt refers to Pound as ‘ a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest ’ . |
| 8 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 9 | And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should . |
| 10 | Abse puts his faith in Heseltine , whom I have never been able to take seriously as a politician . |
| 11 | ‘ I look at the mothers to whom I am going to have say it and I say ‘ bloody hell , if I was in her shoes how would I feel , what would I do ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Of course the poetry 's no good , ’ grumbled a friend to whom I was praising this volume . |
| 13 | ‘ Look , ’ I said to the arresting officer , whom I will call Mr Pilcher , because that was his name . |
| 14 | Still , this orgy of food and sex would have suited the dear departed Peter Langan ( with whom I worked for four years ) very nicely . |
| 15 | ‘ Like Disneyland , ’ said the innocent , first-time Tory delegate with whom I shared a cab from the station . |
| 16 | Citing the case of one of the juveniles whom I had encountered the previous week : |
| 17 | He was a seriouslooking Welshman whom I had met several times back in England and around the orchard . |
| 18 | The other , whom I recognised at once from the camp at Southampton and from the training centre at Achnacarry was sitting u– on the stretcher cursing his bad luck in getting a piece of shrapnel in his leg . |
| 19 | As I was leaving the front of the house two jeeps arrived with wounded aboard , one of whom I recognised straight away . |
| 20 | Many Frenchmen whom I met on several occasions at the Training Centre at Achnacarry and on the South Coast of England had also gone , either killed or wounded . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | When he went home to Basle he showed the photographs to his family and pointed out to them ‘ my very good neighbour Canon Ramsay [ sic ] from Durham , an authentic Anglo-Catholic , with strange views concerning tradition , succession , ontology and so on , but also with a very convincing twinkle in his eye … a man with whom I more often agreed than disagreed … the outstanding figure in the picture of my first ecumenical experience ! ’ |
| 23 | Already on the day following Neddy 's pronouncement the industrial correspondent of The Times , whom I take as a representative of respectable opinion , was ecstatic with metaphors . |
| 24 | I passed by , and was no longer recognised by anyone ; the unknown children did not smile at me ; and I dared not ask what had become of those I had known , whom I feared to recognise in these bent men exhausted by life . |
| 25 | ‘ I am dependent on people with whom I have been associated in the past inviting me and I must say they could not have been more gracious . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Although there are several people sitting on the FISA Commission whom I like and respect , none of them has ever done any serious motor racing , ’ he warned . |
| 27 | On return a bath , and a final word with the Guard Commander , Whom I ask not to wake me up unless something goes ‘ bang ’ . |
| 28 | For example , at the next table at the Exmoor Forest Hotel , he had overheard two people talking to each other , a ‘ very well bred looking old man with a dry peevish voice whom I took to be mentally deranged and a woman who was either his daughter or his nurse ’ . |
| 29 | Let me send my offerings where I can not go ; my pains to comfort sufferers whom I will never see ; and my sacrifices to help plant the Cross in lands that know not yet of the Crucified . |
| 30 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |