Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dziekanowski did not play at Wembley last summer — he was suspended after walking out on his then club Legia Warsaw — but clearly he is in the mood to test the English defenders whom Bobby Robson has been casting as his unsung heroes . |
| 2 | Aleksei Ermolov , the Russian commander in the Caucasus whom Paskevich replaced in 1827 , had been pursuing a conciliatory or " regionalist " policy for more than a decade . |
| 3 | O'Brien is much the same age as Charles , and a man of huge industry and enthusiasm whom Charles is able to spark ideas off . |
| 4 | There stood falcon-headed Horus , and bronze Osiris whom Seth brought back to life by fellation . |
| 5 | Dunne himself went out of his way to insist that his theory was free from any occult taint ; but An Experiment with Time , revised and expanded in 1934 , was to remain in print for over half a century ; and ironically , it won the reputation of doing more to convince the general public of the reality of clairvoyance , in the form of precognition , than all the labours of the psychical researchers whom Dunne so mistrusted . |
| 6 | In the following year these became even tougher : he demanded the crown of France ; then he reduced this to the territories of Angevin days , Normandy , Maine , Anjou , Touraine , Aquitaine ( to include Poitou , part of the concession made by the princes at Bourges in 1412 ) , together with the substantial arrears still due for the ransom of John II and , following the now well-established pattern , the hand of a daughter of the French king , this time Catherine , sister to Isabella whom Richard II had married in 1396 , together with a dowry . |
| 7 | The locals consisted of the party of Sloanes Molly had seen at Nancy Leadbetter 's and another English family with two teenage sons whom Haverford , loudly and explicitly , urged his eldest grand-daughter to ‘ get off with ’ or ‘ drag away to the disco ’ , although he did n't suggest where a disco might be found in Mondano . |
| 8 | This included a number of parachute-trained personnel whom Stirling was naturally keen to recruit . |
| 9 | He had seen the young French clerk whom Celeste had seduced , be broken in a matter of days and confess to whatever question had been put to him . |
| 10 | Indeed , once the mother of one of Greg 's friends rang up about some arrangements the boys had made together , and she said , ‘ Oh , by the way , I 've only just learned that Greg 's sister whom Richard talks about is adopted . ’ |
| 11 | On this evidence therefore it seems possible that , on the evening of 14 May , AFHQ was working on the assumption that Loehr 's forces , including hundreds of thousands of Germans , had already surrendered to 5 Corps or were about to do so , and therefore that the German element in those forces might be included in the " 500,000 " Germans whom AFHQ was asking SHAEF/12th Army Group to take over . |
| 12 | They 're only ninety nine P them June ! |
| 13 | Daisy was Fred 's bird , a freckled teenager with red tabby hair whom Arthur had entrusted with a slice of his savings so that she could open a boutique . |
| 14 | But certainly here , for the clearest moment in Eliot 's later plays the savage and the Christian are joined in reproach of the oversophisticated city ; , though it is essential , too , to remember that that city also contains Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly whom Eliot once described as possibly ‘ a god in the machine ’ . |
| 15 | It was Gauguin whom Maugham had made the hero of The Moon and Sixpence . |
| 16 | Like a second mum my Janet was . ’ |
| 17 | And of course my Aunty Annie , Gwenny went |
| 18 | In any case my Tates are on loan to the exhibition — you know about the exhibition , I suppose ? ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps we 're in the middle of a nest of spies whom Meredith-Lee was about to unmask . |
| 20 | He did not relish the prospect of his impending retirement two years hence , and refused to consider any of the candidates whom Boyden put forward . |
| 21 | In last month 's issue , The Art Newspaper published the list of artists who have been included in this ambitious survey and identified a second list of candidates whom Rosenthal and Joachimedes had decided to ignore . |
| 22 | Wyllie came under closer scrutiny by the NZRFU for a variety of reasons — his unwillingness to have John Hart as an influential coaching partner , his inability to keep to selection announcement timetables and then his rather desperate efforts to have Mike Brewer , the one on-field forward whom Wyllie could rely on for solid advice , put into the team even while suffering a painful foot injury . |
| 23 | Owen started taking Jane and Zeinab across to join them but on the way they ran into a group of journalists whom Zeinab knew and got into conversation with them . |
| 24 | Among them was an impressively-dressed figure whom Owen recognized to be the Father of the church . |
| 25 | Polanski was also known to some of the Hollywood crowd through its inter-connection with the swingers of London and the skiing crowd who populated Gstaad and Aspen , notably his friendship of one of the men at the hub of the English scene , Victor Lownes , the cool , urbane and towering figure whom Hugh Hefner had appointed vice president of Playboy International and despatched to London to oversee the new playboy Club in Park Lane . |
| 26 | the two remaining messengers whom Burnell had sent with them , to accompany him fully-armed . |
| 27 | ‘ Helpful ’ was not the word Christina would have used , but Mr Braithwaite had grudgingly reached an accommodation with a local lawyer whom Stephen had retained to act for them . |
| 28 | That may unnerve Democrat lawmakers whom Mr Clinton is relying on to vote his proposals into law . |
| 29 | The khalifa whom Balvinder had pointed out came up and introduced himself . |
| 30 | Or — like a few men of Sparrow Force whom Corporal Palmer had found near the coast living off the Company 's abandoned-in-transit Christmas parcels — they wandered aimlessly until captured , or killed by native factions . |