Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [pron] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were also lucky enough to find Goutama , whom I remembered as a young syce in the Legation stables when I was a boy ; he had accompanied my father on his long trek to Nairobi in 1914 . |
| 2 | Mrs Adams said her four sons — Richard , nine , Stuart , five , Mark , two , and Thomas , 11 months — were still coming to terms with the loss of their father , a former Royal Air Force engineer whom she described as a happy , family man . |
| 3 | Particularly , she has little time for a group called Yello , the Swiss electro-band with whom she collaborated on a single last year , much in the way Liza Minelli and the Pet Shop Boys or Gene Pitney and Marc Almond have . |
| 4 | Passers by have been questioned by police in an attempt to discover more about the stubbly , blotchy-faced man who who escaped in a stolen car driven by an accomplice after the latest robbery . |
| 5 | But nothing for Glenn the performer , who they offered on a free transfer two years ago . |
| 6 | ‘ Their firms brought in somebody from outside who they treated as a glorified office manager and the culture refused to change . |
| 7 | Mr Sedgemore was later allowed into the hotel to put the protesters ' case to Mr Maxwell , and the MP said afterwards that the millionaire publisher — who he described as a distinguished socialist — had insisted that he would under no circumstances take back his former employees . |
| 8 | We had both come to hate it and its invisible driver , whom we visualized as a smug glutton sleeping in a comfortable bed each night and stuffing his face with three square meals a day . |
| 9 | They proposed instead a new list of candidates which included themselves ‘ and certain other painters whom we knew to a greater or lesser extent … who seemed to us capable of representing if not a particular tendency at least a certain standard ’ . |
| 10 | As a local — he was from Thorn — and as a farmer with business interests in the Free City , they had trusted his leadership far more than they trusted Forster , whom they saw as a boorish Bavarian appointed by Berlin . |
| 11 | They resented Lloyd George for ousting his predecessor Asquith , whom they admired as a great Liberal prime minister . |
| 12 | The Latin papa , or Greek pappas , ‘ Daddy ’ , was used by early Christians of a bishop to whom they stood in a filial relation . |
| 13 | And for those , especially within the Movement , for whom it ranked as a burning issue , Hitler 's words were clearly taken as a signal and sanction for further radical action and were increasingly treated as a literal description of what was actually taking place . |
| 14 | Mujjaddedi had on June 21 threatened not to hand over power ( as required by the Peshawar accord ) to Rabbani , whom he branded as a Khomeini-like Islamic radical . |
| 15 | He suddenly laughed , then looked at Ellen whom he perceived as a possible ally . |
| 16 | His commitment to School was matched by his commitment to his wife , whom he nursed through a long illness without ever missing a day at School . |
| 17 | She had met him back home in the west country when he had come to supervise a show put on by one of the big ready-to-wear labels , Carnega , for whom he worked as a junior member of the design team . |
| 18 | Of the three , the split between Sampras , 20 and Brandi , from whom he parted for a few months at the end of 1990 , was the greatest surprise . |