Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh det] he [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as this notion made his mouth curve upward in amusement at his optimism , he found what he was searching for . |
| 2 | Horowitz was not even looking at her : opening his executive case , he lifted the base , sorted through several documents , found what he was looking for and shut the case . |
| 3 | At last he found what he was looking for : horses had stood there . |
| 4 | I rather admired what he 's doing for Margaret because , as far as I can see , he 's taking er as she 's not able , as far as I can see , to er exist , to live on her own and he seems to be taking over from elderly parents . |
| 5 | I admired what he was doing with his life from afar and I put the museum on my list of places to experience the next time I was in the Miami area . |
| 6 | At last Hazel heard what he was listening for ; a rabbit — or was it two ? — approaching from the wood . |
| 7 | No one in his class understood what he was talking about . |
| 8 | He had made a point of reading some of his articles last night , and the man knew what he was writing about . |
| 9 | He knew what he was looking at . |
| 10 | But he knew what he was looking at , though to the untrained eye it was just a pile of minuscule fragments . |
| 11 | She knew what he was looking at — the pile of birthday cards on the kitchen table , and the letter that she had just started to rip open when he had first thumped on her door . |
| 12 | We knew what he was looking for and it was n't there . |
| 13 | Edouard knew what he was looking for , a Picasso , a Matisse , whose medium was not paint but rare stones and precious metals ; the genius who would be the linchpin of his whole enterprise . |
| 14 | Other methods of meeting the organisation 's needs were considered , but Mr Nabakov knew what he was looking for : ‘ I wanted a nuts and bolts accounting system , like Platinum , and it is also highly flexible . |
| 15 | I knew what he was getting at , of course , and I was so hurt that he should think he had to approach me in such a roundabout fashion — as if I was a terrible , uncharitable woman who had to be coaxed into a simple act of kindness — that I suggested it myself at once , though it was really the last thing I wanted . |
| 16 | I said well thanks , I knew what he was getting at , I said I 'm not sure but then he started saying cos , well , you know , what , if you want somebody to go with you like , I 'll got , I started going up |
| 17 | They knew what he was referring to , and Kate resolved that whether Stephen liked it or not she was going to tell Mrs Blakey . |
| 18 | She had never questioned his facts ; he had been ten or twelve at the time and she had confidently assumed that he knew what he was talking about . |
| 19 | Mark E. Smith knew what he was talking about . |
| 20 | He was not scholastically talented , and was said by some of his students to be a poor lecturer : ‘ Never was there a more irregular course of lectures , so that we scarcely knew what he was talking about ’ . |
| 21 | He glanced at Connors to ensure that the met man knew what he was talking about — Connors nodded . |
| 22 | He knew what he was talking about : he too had put in a stint as a junior officer in the reserve in the early 1920s . |
| 23 | It is poems like this which prove that Wordsworth knew what he was talking about . |
| 24 | It now appears that the England manager knew what he was talking about . |
| 25 | Robert Cecil , who knew what he was talking about , commented that , while all other officers had a clear and defined authority , ‘ to the Secretary , out of a confidence and singular affection , there is a liberty to negotiate at discretion at home and abroad , with friends and enemies , all matters of speech and intelligence ’ . |
| 26 | He knew what he was talking about , having witnessed a man die from a heart attack while forking manure . |
| 27 | Aubrey 's revelations had shocked her , but she did not doubt he knew what he was talking about . |
| 28 | I mean he 'd he 'd use so often the experience of the people who were listening , so when a went down to , they all knew what he was talking about . |
| 29 | And he knew what he was talking about . |
| 30 | They both knew what he was talking about but Maggie dropped that line of banter at once . |