Example sentences of "whom she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in truth no longer an on-looker , and thought how insidious was this stupid game they called war , that all her principles , all her most passionately held beliefs became as nothing when one person , just one whom she cared about , was a part of it . |
| 2 | Intelligent , beautiful , and widely read in four languages , she cultivated men of ‘ unquestionable genius ’ like Sir Thomas Lawrence and Henry Fuseli [ qq.v. ] , whom she compared with Burns : his ‘ Lament for Maria ’ ( 1809 ? ) was probably written in response to her death . |
| 3 | All that was substantial to her was the boy whom she touched all down the length of her but did not touch . |
| 4 | One fourteenth-century manuscript contains information about four : those of Catherine of Siena , the fourteenth-century Italian girl who became a Dominican tertiary and whose teaching based on mystical certainty of the reality of her union with Christ , with whom she experienced a spiritual visionary marriage , was given official Dominican patronage ; and three thirteenth-century Belgian mystics : Christina called Mirabilis from St Truden ; Elizabeth of Spalbeck , a Belgian recluse patronised by the Cistercians ; and the prototypical Beguine , Mary of Oignies , championed by Jacques de Vitry , the Bishop of Acres and later a Cardinal Legate at the court of Gregory IX who protected her and wrote her biography . |
| 5 | The road between San Biagio and Montepulciano is the one down which the Montepulcianesi came to welcome Iris Origo and the troupe of refugee children whom she walked to safety across a battlefield in June 1944 , caught between the German army of occupation and the advancing Allies . |
| 6 | She had revealed that she was surrounded by the spirits of her four dead children , her parents , and a host of spirit youngsters through whom she operated when she was on This Side . |
| 7 | A considerable part of her book is devoted to quite detailed synopses of the lives of the 300-odd geniuses whom she evaluated . |
| 8 | Compassionate and relentless as God ( in whom she does not believe ) , she sends her creatures forth and calls them home , having ( like Thomas Hardy ) a love for funerals , although she has never been to one . |
| 9 | The poems ' particular mixture of the ordinary and the magical has entranced her many times , as it now entrances the children , whom she does not patronise , as her eyes widen over Elsie 's idleness . |
| 10 | The villain in question was a certain Coleridge , upon whom she proceeded to heap ‘ every name of abuse that the parish of Billingsgate could supply ’ . |
| 11 | This might seem more than enough for one life , but in the Ravensbruck concentration camp to which she was now sent she met the woman with whom she formed the other crucial relationship of her life , with Milena Jesenska , whose own life experience drew Margarete intensely , if vicariously , into another of the crucial Central European milieux of that period — the Prager Kreis of Willy Haas , Max Brod and Kafka , whose lover , and early translator , Milena was . |
| 12 | Her acquaintance with Robert Burns [ q.v. ] , to whom she owed her introduction to Smellie , began in Dumfries in late 1791 . |
| 13 | And she did not even know the name of the kind benefactor to whom she owed so much . |
| 14 | No certificate has been found for her presumed marriage to Dandré , with whom she spent the rest of her life . |
| 15 | In one of her letters the poet mentions having had a letter from an aunt whom she describes as ‘ sententious ’ [ ML , 2 , 311 ] . |
| 16 | She addresses herself in this article not to the schoolchildren whom she describes but to an audience of fellow academics . |
| 17 | She desperately needs security not love and this is what Mitch offers her and the young men whom she likes so much do not . |
| 18 | Noreen stayed by her just in case and she clung especially to Michael whom she seemed to adore . |
| 19 | Because she seemed a nice woman and had had a nice mother , with whom she seemed to get on well . |
| 20 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 21 | Shortly after midnight we would answer the phone to hear Helen in her Hampstead drawing room leading a massed choir of bemused MPs , writers and journalists whom she had coached in the proper rendering of ‘ A guid new year tae een an ’ a' . ' |
| 22 | The judge held that the child 's welfare required that she be adopted by the foster parents with whom she had lived for three of her five years , and that the parents were withholding agreement unreasonably . |
| 23 | Her ability , like that of Lloyd George ( a previous premier for whom she had no affection ) to project herself as an outsider , detached from her party leadership , her civil service , even the Cabinet which she led , was a vital key to her effectiveness and impact . |
| 24 | Even Peter Thorneycroft , the veteran proto-monetarist of 1958 whom she had made Party Chairman , proved to be a ‘ one-nation ’ man at heart , and she was eventually to sack him in favour of a little-tried new favourite , Cecil Parkinson , the Paymaster-General . |
| 25 | On 14 September 1981 , she removed four major Heathite ministers , Christopher Soames ( the patrician Churchillian with whom she had clashed over civil-service pay ) , Mark Carlisle ( Education ) , St John-Stevas ( Arts ) , and Ian Gilmour ( Lord Privy Seal ) . |
| 26 | But she looked down through the glass skylight and recognised in Maggie 's cropped hair and long white body the same contours that she had seen in that other virgin warrior whom she had inspired into battle . |
| 27 | While setting up the calm surface of village life in a realistic manner , the film does so only as a contrast to the savagery that ensues : a priest is shot while making a stand against ‘ the enemies and oppressors of mankind ’ , the Post Office lady kills a German with an axe and is promptly bayonetted herself , and the vicar 's daughter disposes of the Quisling squire , to whom she had been amorously linked . |
| 28 | Mrs Huntley sighed ; her brother whom she had loved , but knew to be self-indulgent to a fault , had done his niece real harm by leaving so much of his money away from the girl who had confidently believed herself to be his favourite thing on earth . |
| 29 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 30 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |