Example sentences of "[prep] what he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 After what he did to THE FACE , I do n't see why you should have a picture of him in the magazine .
2 No indication is given of what he meant by the ‘ educational situation ’ , and there is no evidence that he undertook any systematic comparison of the educational quality of the two schools .
3 In their extreme forms the ‘ techniques ’ school would have it that an actor 's performance is detached from his own feelings during performance , that he represents a distillation of what he understands of the character 's feelings ; the Stanislavkian actor , on the other hand , becomes emotionally involved as he performs his role .
4 Another important aspect of Marx 's notion of the Asiatic mode of production is that it offers an explanation of what he saw as the surprising stability of Asian states .
5 He now had reasons beyond his own inclinations to support Israel because of what he saw as the growing global challenge by the Soviet Union , most immediately felt in Vietnam .
6 We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb .
7 He had difficulty in persuading colleagues of what he saw as the benefits of the method :
8 Much of what he says about the roads and tracks depicted there is perceptive and useful , but even Professor Hoskins is wrong in the attribution of many of them .
9 Nizan is clearly dismissive of what he considers as the ill-informed and frankly false perceptions of the USSR based on liberal prejudices : " I am not impressed by accounts of a " new " bourgeoisie .
10 In an entertaining and revealing note which prefaces this recording , the clarinettist Murray Khouri laments the passing of what he describes as the ‘ lyric ’ school of British clarinet playing , the origins of which , he suggests , may be traced to the vocal traditions of our great cathedrals .
11 The Hon. Gentleman must give more careful thought to the detail of what he describes as the " opting-out schemes " .
12 All these groups can think that Mr Clinton is their man because of what he said during the mesmerising presidential campaign of 1992 .
13 In response to his anxiety , perhaps he will send me quotations of what he said during the period of the last Labour Government when 30,980 jobs were lost in the mining industry in Wales .
14 He 's been quick to make capital out of what he regards as the A N C's incomplete suspension .
15 Only these little bits of bogus power enable him to think he is in control of what he sees as the correct father-son relationship .
16 it is a clear statement of what he sees as the group 's essential mission — to construct and operate a customer-driven enterprise .
17 He is critical not only of what he views as the aesthetic escapism of modernism , but also of the crude and facile schematisation of Stalinist socialist realism .
18 The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say .
19 President Chissano was critical of what he described as the MNR 's " delaying tactics " .
20 Habash stated that the PFLP 's decision was a result of what he described as the " erroneous political line " being pursued by the PLO leadership in accepting conditions set by the United States for the formation of a Palestinian delegation to the Madrid conference .
21 Mr Hall 's comments came in the wake of what he described as the ‘ sham consultation ’ by Mersey regional health bosses on trust status .
22 Albert 's purpose in writing his book , published in the original French two years ago , was to warn a developing European Community against what he saw as the growing dominance of the American way of capitalism .
23 There had been the row over Ray Honeyford 's diatribes against what he regarded as the nightmare of multiculturalism imposed on well-intentioned schools by a combination of the race relations industry and ‘ volatile ’ , ‘ half-educated ’ Asian and Afro-Caribbean parents ( Honey ford , 1983 , 1984 ) .
24 In his opening address Diouf pledged firm action against what he described as the dangers of " secessionism and fundamentalism of all kinds " , a reference to the mounting insurgency in Casamance province [ see below ] .
25 Although starting in psychoanalysis as a pupil of Freud , his work soon spread into what he saw as the related spheres of biology , physics , meteorology , astronomy and politics .
26 The mid-fourteenth-century English Dominican , John Bromyard , launched into what he regarded as the increasingly unChristian spirit of those , both knights and common soldiers , who went to war with the vilest of intentions and ‘ oaths and curses in their mouths ’ .
27 I agree with what he said about the Association of British Insurers , the insurance industry and the motor car industry , here , in western Europe and increasingly in central Europe — not to mention Japan and Korea .
28 But he was equally unhappy with the typical alternative , with what he saw as the uneasy combination of materialism and immaterialism .
29 Keynes 's struggle to break free from the classical economics with which he was so profoundly imbued , and his recurrent comparisons with what he regarded as the most powerful , though flawed , alternative approach to macroeconomic matters , were almost totally ignored .
30 Meanwhile he got on with what he found inside the citadel .
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