Example sentences of "[Wh pn] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cant remember who they played last night , but I think the win will mean they will be more than happy with a point . |
| 2 | yeah , who they playing next week then ? |
| 3 | Wicca followers , like the Canaanites , visualise their gods as images of animals or horned gods , thus breaking the second commandment of the group with whom they seek closer ties ( Exodus 20:4 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | How , with respect to what , and for and against whom they use that power are what we should be investigating . |
| 7 | Union representatives at the plant have called for the reconvening of a meeting with the Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , whom they met last Friday in an attempt to win government backing for their fight against the redundancies . |
| 8 | A rough-hewn psychological explanation would hold that , because many second generation Caribbeans and Africans in the UK are raised in single-parent families , in almost every case the parent being the mother , the children pass into an emotional void at the ages of 13 or 14 and seek out father figures in the shape of sports coaches with whom they form compensatory attachments . |
| 9 | The bulk of the remainder are held by companies who show a strong preference for holding the stock of companies with whom they have important trading connections . |
| 10 | Their views frequently are less innovative ( not necessarily in a pejorative sense ) than the next generation over whom they have considerable control . |
| 11 | Wales hope Cyprus , whom they beat last month , can do them a favour by pinching points from their main rivals in the run in . |
| 12 | As British Governments of both colours have failed the Turkish Cypriot community in Cyprus , to whom they undertook certain responsibilities under the constitution of 1960 and the treaty of guarantee , would not it be advisable for the Government to be a bit more sensitive to the concerns of the Turkish Cypriots who do not want to see — under whatever agreement , which may be too favourable to the Greek Cypriots — a return to the situation in the 1960s ? |
| 13 | Police sources in Amsterdam have recently disclosed that a forty-three year old man from the city , whom they arrested last October for stealing rare editions from the university library of Amsterdam , has removed books , title-pages and maps from several other libraries in Holland . |