Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] whom [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with other books I have collaborated on , I was particularly fortunate in having a co-author with whom I could work closely and well , though not without disagreements . |
| 2 | Giles , in spite of his charm , was not the type of man she admired , still less the type with whom she could fall in love . |
| 3 | Fief-rentes provided kings with a pool of mercenaries on whom they could call without having to compete in the open market with other war-lords . |
| 4 | Other factors contributing to the high loss rate were lack of parental support , ridicule by their peers , and no examples of maturer Christians with whom they could identify . |
| 5 | He was sent to be , commanded to be , the first completely human being , the first to be wholly at one with the human race , to be , therefore , wholly at risk from us , to be the victim , the scapegoat on whom we could project our guilt and our fear of being human , of being loved . |
| 6 | The council had done its best , formulating a writ to all sheriffs to issue proclamations forbidding the spreading of lying rumours that Richard was alive , and committing to prison all culprits on whom they could lay hands . |
| 7 | What he most looked forward to seeing were others of his kind with whom he could fly and from whom he would learn things . |
| 8 | These were not gods with whom you could speak . |
| 9 | As his wife , as his Louise , had slipped , there was no friend with whom he could share the sorrow he felt over his son . |
| 10 | One such friend with whom he could relax , and to whom he sent a great deal of comic correspondence , was Mary Trevelyan . |
| 11 | For this reason , and realising it would need to be a writer based at the BBC with whom he could work closely , David Whitaker , on Donald Wilson 's recommendation , selected Anthony Coburn . |
| 12 | Hank felt stripped of the only person in whom he could confide , and , for a while , considered following his example . |
| 13 | If a potential philanthropist did exist , he might have found it a deterrent that there was no established leadership to whom he could talk . |
| 14 | To me , as to so many others , David was a friend on whom I could rely . |
| 15 | She began to feel foolish but she had to talk to somebody and Miss Hatherby was the only person to whom she could turn . |
| 16 | As he walked further into the heart of the country , disappointed to find no painters with whom he could converse , he was struck by a desolation that matched his own worst moods . |
| 17 | Wilson would talk at great length and it became clear to me that the number of people in whom he could confide safely was very small ; in fact it was clear that he had few , if any , complete political friends . |
| 18 | We miss her presence at head office — both as a character and a colleague on whom we could rely 100 per cent . |
| 19 | There was no one of my age to whom I could talk , and I did n't want to venture out any more . |
| 20 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 21 | Indeed , when Law left the government in 1921 , Frances Stevenson noted in her diary that Lloyd George had " lost an ideal companion with whom he could laugh and joke and enjoy himself " . |
| 22 | There were no effective leaders with whom he could deal and , at this point , Congressional parties were of little help to a chief executive trying to meet his responsibility to govern . |
| 23 | Luckily , he had a correspondent in his brother Theo in whom he could confide and with whom he could explore ideas about art ; the letters are thus an invaluable source of interpretation . |
| 24 | Kelly had no more rides on whom she could expunge the memory of that first race . |
| 25 | John always remained very concerned about the designing of his own ballets but was never specifically credited with responsibility for their designs , preferring to collaborate with an artist to whom he could explain his ideas and from whom he expected further ideas to enhance the final outcome . |
| 26 | This may not matter too much if they have professional advisers on whom they could rely . |
| 27 | Sidonius , like the Late Antique authors on whom he modelled himself , had written such letters to ensure the existence of a pool of friends on whom he could count in times of need . |
| 28 | There must be one woman in the whole world to whom he could tell the truth . |
| 29 | Where our Investigation Department operations involved shipping and small craft we were the specialists to whom they could turn for practical assistance . |
| 30 | Not only were the subjects told of what Dement thought might be the probable results of the regime , but they were provided with a psychiatrist on duty all the time to whom they could report any unusual sensation . |