Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in 1987 , the picture surfaced in London , being peddled around to various dealers , none of whom would touch it . |
| 2 | I know two or three people , any of whom will do it . ’ |
| 3 | Paul Hutchins , who is the director for Puma 's Tennis Support programme , has enlisted the help of the company 's various contracted sports personalities , all of whom will make themselves available as part of the prize to the winning team , relevant to their sport . |
| 4 | Although Ceauşescu kept open the question of who would succeed him as both Party leader and head of state , by the 1980s there were only two candidates whom he would tolerate in the necessary launching-pad positions around him . |
| 5 | So it was when , in the spring of 1947 , he announced that he would shortly present to the Cortes the draft of a law which would regulate the question of who would succeed him as Head of State and , equally important , when this event would take place . |
| 6 | He had spent in promoting the scheme money that could have been used in establishing it , and I was both impatient and critical of his capacity to launch and support a large new artistic organisation , particularly as his ideas of who would give him money were hopelessly unrealistic . |
| 7 | It was a question of who would lose her nerve , and Marie could see that Jenna was not about to lose hers . |
| 8 | Nicola Woods found that in a business setting , gender was a better predictor than status of who would interrupt whom . |
| 9 | Since Mandela 's release the issue of who might market his life-story has become unclear , but Mandela himself must be aware that his name carries enormous money-making potential . |
| 10 | Anthony returned soon after five o'clock with the news that there was no penicillin in the city at all , but that he had telephoned everyone he could think of who might supply it and had sent a telegram to UNRRA headquarters . |
| 11 | Again , it is , as Sen puts it , ‘ the tradition of thinking in terms of what exists rather than in terms of who can command what ’ ( Sen 1981 : 8 , quoted in Redclift 1982 : 1 ) which ignores the vital question of access to food production and the fuel to cook it . |
| 12 | That at least was the view of many influential Tories worried about who might lead them to victory in the election due later this year . |
| 13 | ‘ I was lucky that he was worried about who might see us and allowed me to get away . |
| 14 | The debate about who should pay what tax in the underdeveloped world has moved centre stage . |
| 15 | I do n't worry about who should play what roles . |
| 16 | In a related development , the government has recently decided to approve the setting up of a ‘ national airline ’ and is currently thinking about who should own it . |
| 17 | The eve of their life should be free from worry , and stress , and anxiety , and wondering about who will bury them , and who will pay for it . |
| 18 | The coachman brings us here early , so that there are not too many about who will know me , as Papa puts it . |
| 19 | Throughout colonial Africa there were often unwritten regulations about who could use which accommodation and facilities both on the trains and in the stations . |
| 20 | Tt erm the magazine , a magazine 's a good way of getting referrals I ca n't remember who it is , somebody who er Ken I think it is , er uses the magazines as a great way of saying erm you 've read that in the magazine , you 've found it useful , tell me what about the chaps at Excon , who , who else would you work with who would find it useful to have a subscription , some kind of subscription , who , who should be placed on our mailing list . |
| 21 | For whoever would save his life will lose it . |
| 22 | She 'd never met any man before who could make her feel so disquieted . |
| 23 | And as I 'm in the shop most of the time and know what goes and what does n't , I think you should stick by what I say or get somebody else in who 'll do it better . ’ |
| 24 | Erm , well it 's just a seminar about planning at the moment , I shall get further information about it on nearer the time , erm , a change in who would pay our , or get our VAT repayment claim from , does n't change an address basically , and er a request from Sam Stewart , whose erm a Counc , er a County Councillor , er something which I really ca n't actually erm help him with , he wants to know the whole of our Parish Council meetings date for nineteen ninety four , but I mean this is something we fix as we go along , so I really do n't think that I can help him by that , and I 'm sending him that , erm |
| 25 | The Poles reported Warsaw under bomb attack and wanted help , immediately , from whoever would honour their commitments . |
| 26 | The screws half the time would leave tab-ends on purpose and there were fights over who would have them . |
| 27 | I do n't know if you remember , but there was quite a punch-up over who would win it . ’ |
| 28 | Whatever , once the battles were over and the cacique 's tribe had won , the man made Balboa a gift — a quantity of gold ornaments so gaudy and so valuable that squabbling broke out among the Spaniards as to who should have which piece , how much the minor colonial leaders should get , how much Balboa himself should receive . |
| 29 | only the contractors do and even they only know when they go on site so , but we , we sort of say you do this , you do that and then we contract to who can do it , there 's some of them by er |
| 30 | The holy men , whose heirs , such as the Carmelites on the Derwent Ings , now venerate God 's wilderness which washes up to their walls , began to compete with each other as to who could plunder it the most . |