Example sentences of "[pron] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These hints had their final expression in an astonishing personal letter written by Knox to Mary on 26 October 1559 , claiming that ‘ if it be the office of a very friend to give true and faithful counsel to them whom he sees run to destruction for lack of the same , I could not be proven enemy to your Grace but rather a friend unfeigned ’ — even if moderation was never Knox 's strong suit and so , unable to keep up the quiet tone of the letter , he felt impelled to throw in a postscript : ‘ God move your heart yet in time to consider that ye fight not against man , but against the eternal God , and against his Son Jesus Christ , the only Prince of the kings of the earth . ’ |
| 2 | These men should have gone off duty at twelve but he was able to dismiss only two of them whom he could replace with experienced men from the afternoon shift . |
| 3 | Lord Northcliffe once wrote , God made people read so that I could fill their brain with facts and later tell them whom to love and whom to hate and what to think . |
| 4 | It was a crime which contaminated everyone whom it touched , innocent and guilty alike . |
| 5 | ‘ You know perfectly well that it is not me whom you love , but Mrs Greville , and the two children who are your responsibility , and , knowing that your heart lies with them , and not with me , I can not marry you . ’ |
| 6 | I equally do n't want to sail into something that is er pretty undesirable and as my Noble Friend Lord Boyd-Carpenter says if we do that then almost certainly I do n't know I may be completely wrong , I 've got enormous faith in the my Right Honourable from my Noble Friend the Chief Whip and even more f faith in all my friends beh behind me whom I know will er go in , in the right direction because they think so erm superb , but My Lords er I would obviously like to see whether there is any way in which we can bridge this divide . |
| 7 | Either book could be considered the masterpiece of someone whom I think of as among the most gifted authors now at work in England . |
| 8 | Did you find it easy to take direction from someone whom you did n't know ? |
| 9 | They can execrate someone whom they decide is a useless clown and they do this by making him a Lord , giving him the chairmanship of a quango and telling the chaps at the Athenaeum to hand him non-executive directorships in 15 companies and a merchant bank . |
| 10 | Shortly afterwards Jane went to a friend 's house in Kensington to a musical party where a famous quartet was playing and , sitting on the stairs , talked to someone whom she took to be one of the players . |
| 11 | Furthermore , the constable may also arrest someone whom he or she suspects to be about to , or who is actually about to , commit an arrestable offence . |
| 12 | He was not someone whom Rigby or her classmates had seen as a pin-up type . |
| 13 | He/she may well select someone whom they feel they can get on with . |
| 14 | ‘ Then we attach the new care assistant to a member of staff , not necessarily the most experienced , but someone whom we see as having the right attitude to the residents . |
| 15 | But what exactly do you say to that special someone whom you drugged to get into bed ? |
| 16 | Could it be that the friend is actually someone whom you recognize from a previous life , and that is why you immediately feel that you have a mutual link ? |
| 17 | Think of someone whom you admire at the moment . |
| 18 | Was this a likely concession to someone whom the authorities believed had committed such horrific killings ? |
| 19 | Exercise : Choose someone whom you have taken for granted , decide to appreciate them this week , and tell them that you do . |
| 20 | Please excuse me — I 'm off for a refill ’ , ‘ I 'm enjoying our chat , but I 've just seen someone whom I need to speak to urgently . ’ |
| 21 | From my point of view it was a complete success — fun , interesting and the chance for me to meet someone whom I 'd admired from afar since I was 14 years old . |
| 22 | It was a letter about her daily life , her family , her children and grandchildren , ‘ a precious human exchange ’ delicately penned by someone whom he had never met , from a country that he had hardly heard of , ‘ that became part of my flesh … a symbiosis developing between the correspondent and the prisoner ’ . |
| 23 | Someone whom you are looking after regularly for at least 35 hours a week , who is in receipt of attendance allowance , constant attendance allowance or the new disability living allowance |
| 24 | She argues that if you have been assisted by relatives yourself , this imposes a strong obligation to provide similar support for others , even if that means giving a temporary home to someone whom you do not particularly like ( p. 89 ) . |
| 25 | After all , when you are ill , or when someone whom you love is ill , what you most want is someone to take the responsibility . |
| 26 | Think of everyone you come across in your work as someone whom you are serving . |
| 27 | Obviously a client will not discuss intimate affairs with someone whom he believes to know nothing of such matters , or whom he thinks may condemn or be shocked by his problems . |
| 28 | The only thing that 's ever wrong with saying something you believe to be false is that you do it in order to mislead someone whom you think will believe what you say . |
| 29 | ‘ It would be foolish to sell now , ’ said Syl judiciously , and I thought that apart from wanting young girls he wanted to inherit another big house , and I wondered how on earth I could be going to marry someone whom I detested so much . |
| 30 | And it belonged to someone whom he had known once ; that , too , he could deduce . |