Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hope each hydra might escape detection during the period while it grows to maturity — or only be detected by riff-raff , whom no-one in power will heed . |
| 2 | Thus , to give one case example in ten thousand that spring to mind , no psychiatrist in his right mind would pay credence or even attention to the findings , as uncovered by Hans Eysenck some years ago , that patients undergoing psychoanalysis have an improvement rate of 44 per cent , those subject to the effects of other psychotherapy recover at the rate of 64 per cent , and those to whom nothing whatever is done , who receive no treatment at all , are cured at a rate of 72 per cent . |
| 3 | In one half lived the miner Charles Decrucq and his family , and in the other a fellow evangelist of whom nothing is known , except that his surname was Frank . |
| 4 | Indomitable Aunt Lou , whom nothing could shake . |
| 5 | They are the people who gave their best ten years ago , and for whom nothing is good enough now . |
| 6 | Her husband , about whom nothing is known , probably died young , leaving her a widow with a small income which she supplemented by teaching . |
| 7 | His estate , valued at £100 , was left to his wife , Mary , about whom nothing is known . |
| 8 | Judde married three times : first , Mary , daughter of Sir Thomas Mirfyn , himself a skinner and lord mayor of London in 1518 ; second , Agnes , about whom nothing is known ; and third , Mary , daughter of Thomas Mathews of Colchester and wealthy widow of another skinner , Thomas Langton . |
| 9 | He was one of these people , she sensed , whom nothing touched . |
| 10 | Whatever lucky chances there were and miraculous escapes , all through history there have been despoliations , deprivations , tearings asunder , deaths and devastations , and among those to whom nothing is restored must be people around us , people we see . |
| 11 | Life will get even tougher for those whom everyone loves to hate — estate agents . |
| 12 | There were Sergeant Rose , whom everyone remembered for his fine singing voice , and Bob Lilley , married and at nearly 40 one of the oldest operatives . |
| 13 | Fearful anticipation had proved somewhat worse than the event , and most Viennese were coming round to the opinion that , whatever the failings of Napoleon 's men , they were at least an improvement upon the Hapsburgs ' Russian allies , whom everyone loathed . |
| 14 | and to appear in court , he found himself caught up in a drama in which he had been cast as The Defendant , facing the man he had known as Rich whom everyone called The Plaintiff , and being called to order by someone he had never heard of before called The Registrar and his right hand man The Clerk of the Court — and all in the unfamiliar setting ( set ) of a courtroom . |
| 15 | With the pile of huge marrows , the whole service seemed like some ancient fertility rite , with Ricky the unattainable corn king whom everyone wanted . |
| 16 | When considering the future of a chronically sick , disabled or frail person it is inevitably the nurse in the family to whom everyone turns . |
| 17 | Besides those I have already mentioned , others at this memorable luncheon included , whom everyone was so pleased to see here ; . |
| 18 | Its clientele was drawn from every part of the world , and the owner was a tiny German whom everyone called Fritz , although that was n't his real name . |
| 19 | The one author whom everyone remembered best was George Bernard Shaw , popular editions of whose plays were running off the presses in the early years of the century . |
| 20 | It was an enormous subject upon which we had embarked , and I felt that , as a minor guest of the monastery , I must not monopolize the time of the guest whom everyone wanted to meet . |
| 21 | He 's tall , blonde and handsome : the only ‘ other man ’ with whom my husband does n't mind me spending a weekend . |
| 22 | Four or five months ago on a gentle Autumn evening I climbed some steep stairs in a converted house in Holland Park to call upon my then closest friend and ally , the Robert whom my agent mentioned so cunningly and cruelly in his self-exposing telephone conversation this morning . |
| 23 | I got my deserts , however , when being shown the sights of Paris by a distinguished professor and holder of the Légion d'Honneur , to whom my cousin had given me an introduction . |
| 24 | But again , some of the ladies whom my brother Sam bedded with … well , I would not have touched with a 20 foot pole . |
| 25 | Next to church and school came the relationship of our family to the squire for whom my father worked . |
| 26 | I myself feel that the cat and the dog who live in the same house with me are fellow members of my family circle , closer related to me socially than the human neighbour next door whom I know only by sight and name , and infinitely closer than some odd Brazilian or Melanesian , with whom my only connection is that we are fellow men . |
| 27 | William James , for example , dedicated Pragmatism to J. S. Mill ‘ from whom I first learned the pragmatic openness of mind and whom my fancy likes to picture as our leader ’ . |
| 28 | Therefore , Hegel suggests , I — the jealous one — may set out to destroy the person in whom my ‘ self-hood ’ resides . |
| 29 | Taking it as far as it can be taken , Hegel suggests that the conflict between myself and the person in whom my identity resides will become a struggle between life and death , because , he says , it is only by risking one 's life that one becomes fully aware of oneself as a free , autonomous individual . |
| 30 | So I must neither die myself , nor must I destroy the individual in whom my identity resides . |