Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [Wh det] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 There are some experts whose advice you may seek , and whose fees you will not recover , but who easily justify their fee by the increase that they obtain in the damages awarded .
2 There were letters to write , interviews to give , meetings with eminent writers whose work he might never have read or of whom he had no very high opinion , and of course the official round of duties : a speech at the Alliance Française on 19 January , and another at a lunch of the Anglo-Swedish society two weeks later .
3 This was the corner to which she had tottered , her mother holding her on white leather reins , her legs encased in knitted leggings whose scratchiness she could still remember .
4 Those who think that Jenny herself is a little dull at times might conclude that Patrick has impaled himself on that point , like one of those Romans whose language he used to teach .
5 Given the widespread feelings of disillusionment abroad in 1976 , Carter 's strategy of offering himself as a new broom was electorally well judged , but if he impressed the voters , his relentless and sanctimonious moralizing irritated and alienated legislators whose support he would eventually need .
6 But he has brought with him the Furies who appear at key moments of the action — the spectral creatures whose gaze he can not endure but whose presence he understands , since he believes he has murdered his wife .
7 Husbands or wives who are away on business tell their other halves which hotel they will be staying at .
8 Small reliable local firms whose work you may have seen in other people 's homes are of course worth considering .
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