Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [pers pn] [vb past] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Nath said : ‘ The reason I became involved was I went to Romania to see another child , Bogdan , on whom I did an operation . |
| 2 | She had found a good quick way of conveying the fact that something had arisen suddenly at her end that must claim her immediate attention ; a summons to go to the boss s office , the arrival of someone with whom she had an appointment , or letters to be signed to catch the afternoon post . |
| 3 | In 1700 she contributed an ode on the death of John Dryden [ q.v. ] to Luctus Britanici : or the Tears of the British Muses , and she also contributed to The Nine Muses ( 1700 ) , a volume of poems by women in memory of Dryden edited by Mary Delarivière Manley [ q.v. ] , with whom she had an intense but short-lived friendship . |
| 4 | Aubrey Herbert [ q.v. ] , with whom she founded an Anglo-Albanian association , said that ‘ she restored Albania to the memory of Europe . ’ |
| 5 | Among her mentors were John Elliot Cairnes , W. Leonard Courtney , and W. A. Hunter [ qq.v. ] , from whom she learned an attachment to laissez-faire economics and liberal political principles . |
| 6 | The painters and writers with whom he felt an affinity akin to brotherhood were all suffering , in their different ways , as he was . |
| 7 | David Scott managed this effectively in one of his communications with Patrick Rigg , the principal figure in the burgh of Cupar , to whom he offered an appointment as clerk in the India House for a young man favoured by the burgh council . |
| 8 | In 1762 , Josiah Wedgwood met Thomas Bentley , a Liverpool merchant , with whom he formed an intimate and lasting friendship ; and after several years of negotiation they signed , in 1769 , a partnership which ended only on Bentley 's death in 1780 . |
| 9 | debts liable for collection by the lender after the death of a person specified by the borrower as someone from whom he had an expectation . |
| 10 | He was at Ibrox in 1971 when 66 fans died in a crush on the steps of the stadium ; in September 1980 , he had to watch the pathetically outmatched Welsh bantam-weight Johnny Owen die at the hands of Lupe Pintor , after writing beforehand ‘ this fight could end up in the intensive care unit ’ ; and he saw the heart-bursting tension of a World Cup qualifying match kill the man with whom he had an almost filial relationship , the Celtic and Scottish national football manager , Jock Stein . |
| 11 | He placed his hopes first in Robert Devereux , second Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , to whom he dedicated An Order of Household Instruction ( 1596 ) , and then on James VI , to whom he appealed more or less directly in The Plea of the Innocent ( 1602 ) , an account of the variable fortunes of the godly cause under Elizabethan rule . |
| 12 | Che Guevara , on an extensive tour in search of new markets for Cuban goods , had met two Soviet representatives in Egypt in August , with whom he concluded an agreement by which the Soviet Union bought 170,000 tons of sugar at the world market price . |
| 13 | In Scotland in particular there is a coterie of men and women working on VAT for whom he set an example to be followed . |
| 14 | I did not approve of Jean-Claude 's displays of impatient bigotry with Otto , from whom he wanted an instantaneous return . |