Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At harvest feasts the distinctions between the farmer and the labourers whom he hired were relaxed . |
| 2 | By early November however , as the Dublin lock-out attacks against leaders of the trade unions and the Labour Party who seemed to be obstructing his plans for a general strike , not only in Dublin , but throughout Great Britain , vilifying them as " serpents whom I shall allow to raise their foul heads and spit out their poison no longer " and as having " neither soul to be saved nor body to be kicked " Almost overnight , support for Larkin turned into denunciation of his reckless methods and of his policy of attempting to bleed British unions of funds in support of sympathy strikes which seemed destined either to fail or to lead to unwanted revolution . |
| 3 | Memories unfortunately fade and hopes soon waned when after 1 1/2 hours nothing was found in the area suggested . |
| 4 | Dziekanowski did not play at Wembley last summer — he was suspended after walking out on his then club Legia Warsaw — but clearly he is in the mood to test the English defenders whom Bobby Robson has been casting as his unsung heroes . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've told yer lots o' times me an' Tommy finished long ago . |
| 6 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 7 | This really is committee work but I , it does occur to me that mention it that erm , if in our advertising we point out that we have a car park attendant and if that car park attendant were to let one slip through his fingers me were , we may well then be liable to be sued by the person who |
| 8 | The punters are typically those C2 social groups whom , we are told , the Conservatives must retain if they are to do well on Thursday . |
| 9 | This was no peasant revolution , but an insurrection led by the intelligentsia of the new middle classes ( those professional groups whom the Enlightenment aristocrats despised as base and usurers ) . |
| 10 | The BMA called a press conference on the emigration of doctors an hour beforehand , half the journalists went off to that , and the fierce women sent along by the pressure groups whom I had invited to liven up the occasion terrorised the few press men who remained into almost complete silence . |
| 11 | Baron and Strawson ( 1976 ) reported on the ways in which regular and irregular words were processed by two general groups whom they called " Chinese " and " Phoenician " readers . |
| 12 | A considerable part of her book is devoted to quite detailed synopses of the lives of the 300-odd geniuses whom she evaluated . |
| 13 | to obtain the above for employees of other institutions whom the Executive Committee may admit to membership from time to time ; |
| 14 | The fall-out hammers everyone , from householders to nationstates . |
| 15 | In the Middle Ages everyone ate in the same manner — like pigs . |
| 16 | If they then go out and collect signatures no-one can say that the petition has been organized by a small group who have twisted arms in the street . |
| 17 | Within fifteen minutes everyone in the cast — apart from me — was talking about this . |
| 18 | The firemen quickly checked out the hotel and reset the alarm system and after about 10 minutes everyone was back inside . |
| 19 | Leslie was disturbed to hear of this latest small trauma : ‘ It distresses me , ’ he wrote , ‘ to think of you being chivvied about in the way you are ; after all , the army supports me , and when it moves me thinks a wee bit about me . |
| 20 | It is the abuse of freedom which homosexuals have won which distresses me . |
| 21 | Comfortable within my landlord 's neat demesne , I am cushioned against the uglification of the landscape which offends and distresses me the moment I cross the boundaries . |
| 22 | It makes even worse reading and it distresses me to have to bring it to the attention of the House . |
| 23 | It distresses me . |
| 24 | The council leader , Owen Taylor , said : ‘ We are being used as a scapegoat and that distresses me . |
| 25 | Fastolf sought , and obtained , compensation for this , admittedly ten years later , and also claimed a right to the ransoms of various merchants whom he had freed from Remon . |
| 26 | This diminutive , bow-legged Palace forward of the 1920s and early 1930s was one of those performers whom the fans immediately took to their hearts . |
| 27 | The performers whom the young Elvis heard and learned from — gospel singers , blues men like Arthur Crudup , Bill Broonzy , Junior Parker and Howlin' Wolf , country and western stars such as Bob Wills , Hank Williams and Roy Acuff — were commercial artists ; they , like Elvis himself , did not separate themselves from the whole wash of music that was available . |
| 28 | The consequence of that is , you have to ask yourself , okay , oedipal behaviour is fine for sexy sons them , but what about daughters ? |
| 29 | But on the ramparts nothing appeared ; when the Collector tried transplanting weeds , bushes , vegetation of every kind , within a few hours everything had wilted . |
| 30 | Alternatively it may be that you hanker after some lost love and are therefore convinced that we are doing the same , when in most cases nothing could be further from the truth . |