Example sentences of "[pron] to [pron] [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For her part , she felt that he was someone to whom she could open her heart and who would understand . |
| 2 | John — Augustus cast a sentimental eye on his retreat , convinced in his euphoria of pristine well-being that he had encountered one of nature 's radicals , someone to whom he could reveal his new true feelings . |
| 3 | Here was someone to whom I could confide . |
| 4 | The assumption is based on religious writings , which in their turn are probably based on the primitive beliefs which early man formulated in pursuance of that almost uncontrollable urge to find something beyond himself to which he could ascribe the origins of the many mysterious things around him . |
| 5 | I did n't envy them their individual futures , which seemed dull or trivial to me , but I did envy the fact they had futures at all , whereas I had none , or , at least , not one to which I could look forward with any confidence . |
| 6 | Years later her increasing helplessness was causing unhappiness at home , yet there was still no one to whom she could turn : her parents had died ; her children had left her ; her sister was in Canada ; the family doctors and hospital doctors were uninterested ; and , apart from arranging adaptations to her house , social services were too overworked to be accessible . |
| 7 | Anybody to whom one could talk about the place ? |
| 8 | Nothing to what you could see tonight . ’ |
| 9 | The problem for the Scots this time , whatever their varying political and religious persuasions , was that there was no-one to whom they could turn as a counter-weight . |
| 10 | There was no-one to whom she could confide , ‘ I 'm afraid of my husband 's affection for his daughter … my daughter . ’ |
| 11 | If I mentioned it to him I could see he was bored to the point of distress . |
| 12 | Then he 'd take it to someone who could cut er a key er so he could open the up the granary the late in in the middle of the night , when everybody were asleep , and steal oats for the horses . |
| 13 | He had never had anyone to whom he could talk about Mr Skinner . |
| 14 | But there were never any open words expressing the inflection , never anything to which he could raise objection . |