Example sentences of "whose [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a tree in it whose story I did not tire of hearing . |
| 2 | There were many others , not mathematicians or academic linguists , whose function I did not know ( and not all of whom I met in what was by then a large organisation ) , who became celebrated in later life . |
| 3 | A complicated thing is one whose existence we do not feel inclined to take for granted , because it is too " improbable " . |
| 4 | Tuami and his people have escaped from the perceived menace of Neanderthal man , whose humanity they do not recognise . |
| 5 | In a Christian context this appeal is to Christ ; in a pre-Christian context they could be a pagan 's appeal , to a forerunner of Christ , to a Saviour whose nature he did not know . |
| 6 | A Mrs J. Minton , who taught conventional art , claimed that owing to the similarity of their names in the London telephone directory she was plagued at least three times a day with telephone calls for John Minton , whose art she did not like , and that open cheques would arrive for him in the post , commissioning pictures and with the note ‘ fill in your own price ’ . |
| 7 | Bees — the bumble and the honey — and butterflies — red admirals and small , delicate blue ones whose name I did not know — tilted at each other in the warm summer air . |
| 8 | I was born in 1948 in Carlisle , the daughter of an unmarried working mother and a father whose name I do not know . |
| 9 | We had gone through Mullinavat and came to a village whose name I do not know — if it ever had one . |
| 10 | James Harris , writing in 1751 , saw that ‘ all Conversation passes between Particulars or Individuals ’ , and argued that when , at the formative stages of human language , a speaker met another whose name he did not know he addressed him by using ‘ , that is , Pointing , or Indication by the Finger or Hand , some traces of which are still to be observed as a part of that Action which naturally attends our speaking ’ . |
| 11 | These things he barely understood , and lacking anybody to talk to , it was at lunchtime sitting before an eagle whose name he did not know was Minch that he began to see his way towards them . |
| 12 | He spotted Amaranth Wilikins drinking champagne with Charles Harvey and a second man whose name he did not know . |
| 13 | I accept of course that the police officers investigating on behalf of the Hampshire Constabulary , whose rank I do not know , and the Principal Crown Prosecutor thought they had seized sufficient documents or might acquire others independently . |
| 14 | But then she scolded herself — who was better with children , even foreign children , whose language he did not speak , than Ferdinando ? |
| 15 | The copies are of the Tyrannic ides , Harmodios and Aristogeiton , by Kritios and Nesiotes ( the nature of whose collaboration we do not know ) , set up in the Agora at Athens in 477/6 to replace those by Antenor , carried off to Persepolis by Xerxes . |