Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My touching faith in the Chancellor 's resolve and commitment to anti-inflation policy was ridiculed by those with whom I had this discussion , who were obviously much more deeply cynical than I am . |
| 2 | Goaded beyond endurance by the reference to the headmaster 's wife , to whom she had that morning sent a boy with a high fever , only to have him sent back with iodine on his knuckles , Glenda Grower chimed in again in her rich , ringing voice : |
| 3 | The presentation took place in the showroom where she also received a Caithness Crystal glass vase given by her friends in the factory and warehouse with whom she had close links for many years . |
| 4 | She was just getting used to the chestnut when Alejandro moved her on to a dark brown mare who , when it was n't bucking , shied at the ball , and then on to another chestnut , whom she had great difficulty in holding . |
| 5 | Her husband , by whom she had two sons , was chaplain of All Souls and lecturer in modern history at several undergraduate colleges . |
| 6 | Then she married and divorced top conductor Andre Previn with whom she had three sons — and adopted Soon-Yi . |
| 7 | I found coming into Suffolk from Hertfordshire I had n't heard the , any East Anglian dialect before at all erm I did n't find it difficult , there were only two cases and I can remember thinking there were two people er , one of whom is still alive , er who I had great difficulty in understanding and I thought when I can follow both of them without any difficulty I shall know I really belong . |
| 8 | However most of those for whom we had relevant information did feel strain , often considerable , and often very acute . |
| 9 | On our way we called on the established church minister , who had been the means of our coming to the Island , and with whom we had special business , and were immensely tickled to find that he had actually fled ! |
| 10 | When they arrived at the house , they saw a man whom they had good reason to suppose to be the assailant washing blood from himself . |
| 11 | Like Maurice , with whom they had some affinities , Nevin and Schaff had a horror of party-spirit and sectarianism , and also of the individualism they found deeply entrenched in much American Protestantism , especially in the revivalist movements which came more and more to the fore through the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | He was married in 1631 in London to Maria de Bruijne from Colchester , by whom he had six sons and two daughters . |
| 13 | He spent some time in Holland in the company of an Indian guru with whom he had long walks and conversations through which came the realization that he should build a new career around his two key interests : his satisfaction in working with children and his love of Art . |
| 14 | About this time Gough married Joan Wood , of Peplow , by whom he had eight children between 1663 and 1678 . |
| 15 | He married Elizabeth Leonie Knowles , by whom he had eleven children ; their two sons both went to Cambridge University before entering the family business , of which they later became directors . |
| 16 | At the age of twenty-one he joined his father 's lace business , and in the following year ( 1881 ) he married Annie Maria Winlaw , the daughter of a baker , with whom he had four daughters and three sons . |
| 17 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 18 | He married first in early 1600 Catherine , daughter of William Killegrew of Hanworth , Middlesex , by whom he had one daughter and four sons , including Thomas and Henry ; secondly Mary ( died 1679 ) , daughter of Edmund Barber of Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk , and widow of Thomas Newton of Edgefield , Norfolk , by whom he had a son and a daughter . |
| 19 | He married , first , in 1677 , Gertrude , daughter of William Morice , Presbyterian MP , who died in 1679 ; and second , in 1691 , Gwen , daughter of Sir Robert Williams , baronet , of Penrhyn , Cornwall , by whom he had one son and three daughters . |
| 20 | In 1545 he married Mabel , daughter of Mark Digneley of Wolverton in the Isle of Wight , by whom he had no children , and in 1551 Margaret , daughter of Ralph Daniell of Swaffham , Norfolk , by whom he had one son , ( Sir ) George [ q.v. ] , and two daughters ; the elder , Elizabeth , married Richard Polsted , Wolley , and in 1597 Lord Keeper Sir Thomas Egerton ( later Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley ) . |
| 21 | He was married three times : to Margaret , daughter of Joseph Gatey of Keswick , Cumberland , in 1869 , who died in 1877 and by whom he had two daughters ; to Jessy Henrietta , daughter of James Stewart of Clapham , Yorkshire , in 1880 , who died in 1904 ; and to Florence Maude , daughter of the Revd Robert Daniel of Osbaldwick , Yorkshire and widow of Colonel J. Lawson Whalley , in 1909 . |
| 22 | On 9 July 1877 Matcham married Robinson 's younger daughter Maria , by whom he had two daughters . |
| 23 | He also ignored the extent to which the concrete policies of Derry Labour , as distinct from its rhetoric , were the common currency of all opponents of the Unionist Party , including the Nationalists , for whom he had boundless contempt . |
| 24 | Sir John Markham was married three times ; first to Anne , daughter of Sir George Neville , by whom he had three sons ; secondly to Margery , daughter of Ralph Longford ; and thirdly around 1521 to Anne , widow of Richard Stanhope of Rampton , by whom he had two further sons and three daughters . |
| 25 | His first wife was Cicely Cresley , by whom he had three sons : Robert , who became Somerset herald in 1597 , Ralph ( also a surveyor ) , and Christopher . |
| 26 | He could have failed to get a personal interview with the one man with whom he had some sort of contact . |
| 27 | Naturally , Eliot was pleased about my enthusiasm for Collingwood , for whom he had considerable regard ; but although he told me he liked the Essay on Philosophical Method , which had appeared in 1933 and concerning which I had attended Collingwood 's lecture-course in my first year , I could see that he was more interested in such works as A. E. Taylor 's Faith of a Moralist , or more directly theological works , such as those of Jacques Maritain . |