Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] what he [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 2 | He could not have borne a mirror in the room with him now , for fear of what he might see ; in his heart he knew that it would be unrecognisable , as he failed to recognise the turmoil of his own feelings as having anything to do with the self he had always known . |
| 3 | Rather , it has been a question of what he should leave out . |
| 4 | That evening he devoted to discussing the agreeable question of what he should wear for his triumphant entry into London . |
| 5 | However , if , by the date of trial , it can be shown that the deceased 's income would have risen since his death , then the dependency will be calculated by reference to what he would have been earning at the date of trial , rather than what he in fact was earning at the date of his death . |
| 6 | He began to see that God was not a tyrant but a loving Father ; he began to see that the Christian life was not a series of impossible demands to satisfy the whims of an unreasonable employer ; he began to see that he was welcome because of who he was , and not on the basis of what he could achieve . |
| 7 | Just a desperate imitation of what he must think the real thing 's like . |
| 8 | Beck added : ‘ It was a reminder of what he could do . |
| 9 | Until then they had treated him with a mixture of sympathy as a man caught up , by line of duty , in a political imbroglio , and suspicion at what he might do to make things worse . |
| 10 | Though he got the lines , Michael Banks 's performance was very subdued , only a vestige of what he could achieve . |
| 11 | Now that he was left alone with the two women , both of whom ( he imagined ) rather admired him , Rupert felt a sense of power , though there being two of them rather limited the scope of what he could do — cramped his style , he might almost have said . |
| 12 | A knowledge of the working of a solicitor 's office , particularly er o of those departments handling non-contentious business , can not be automatically imputed to the judge or to council and he may as well make it is not uncommon for an expert witness to give evidence of what he would have done in a particular situation after consideration and er I resign on that because in my submission er the issues in this case are clearly issues of mixed fact and law and my Lord it is seen from the report handed up that there is particularly in relation to the erm financial aspect of the case , reference to a provision within a professional conduct of solicitors guide as to what the nature of the er duties of the solicitor in the situation is . |
| 13 | He takes a pride in what he can do in a small space . |
| 14 | Although it may have taken only an instant , the person to whom this sentence refers had to make the logical jump from what he could see of the possible escape routes open to him to the realization that flight was impossible . |
| 15 | Yet , in this context , Professor Heinz Woolf of Brunel University has frequently discussed the use of what he would prefer to call ‘ tools for living ’ rather than ‘ aids for the handicapped ’ , on the basis that customers should be able to purchase these items without having a disabled label attached to themselves . |
| 16 | He himself had bitten his tongue from what he could feel in his mouth , probably loosened a couple of teeth and had a flesh wound over his eye . |
| 17 | IBM Corp 's new chief executive is being swamped with gratuitous advice on what he should do to turn the company around , but that coming from Stephen Smith , who has tracked the computer industry for PaineWebber Inc for 11 years , is probably worth more of Gerstner 's attention than most . |
| 18 | In the cynical world of F1 , we tend to accept the number of noughts as a driver 's way of keeping score , but the local bricklayer has an acute realisation of what he could afford to buy with £6,000,000 ! |
| 19 | He gritted his teeth against the shame that welled up at the thought of what he 'd let happen to her , then met her eyes again , smiling . |
| 20 | Before the Prime Minister retires to his desert island , taking with him his Trollope and a very large section of my constituency — without my permission — will he give a clear and simple statement about what he will offer to pensioners so that they can retire with some luxury ? |
| 21 | We can study in these terms what an author has written against the background of what he might have written , had he failed to apply certain transformations , or chosen to apply others instead . |
| 22 | It had been a convenient fiction to smooth the path towards what he must have seen as their inevitable destiny in that great , soft bed . |
| 23 | He told her at length of what he would do and what she would do . |
| 24 | Mr Baughan is in no doubt about what he would do to the attackers . |
| 25 | And Forester had no idea of what he would do then . |
| 26 | Were he alive today he would undoubtedly have bemoaned the fact that he was the frequent target of what he would have probably called ‘ scribblers ’ . |
| 27 | He knew no English and took no interest in what he must have regarded as a far flung outpost of his Angevin Empire — except for the revenues it could bring . |
| 28 | on other occasions , he would appear at society functions wearing a chunky-knit pullover and a pair of slacks — in defiant protest over what he might have termed ‘ the folly of fashion ’ ( if he 'd said anything about it ) . |
| 29 | on other occasions , he would appear at society functions wearing a chunky-knit pullover and a pair of slacks — in defiant protest over what he might have termed ‘ the folly of fashion ’ ( if he 'd said anything about it ) . |