Example sentences of "[coord] [Wh det] he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intent can best be proved by an admission from the accused or what he said to the female to whom he exposed himself . |
| 2 | A kind of domestic diplomatic service , representing the British — or what he saw as the best of the British — to the British . |
| 3 | He was educated at Horris Hill and Winchester , where he was a scholar and which he left after the summer term of 1914 . |
| 4 | And that to him seems to be the answer to a problem which at sometime or another must have exercised most of use , and which he explains in the pamphlet which accompanies the display ; ‘ The art gallery , that supposed refuge and den of tranquility , I find a troubled place . |
| 5 | He was delighted by the somewhat undeserved honour of the Chancellorship of the University , which was bestowed upon him in 1930 , and which he retained to the end of his life . |
| 6 | Recently he penned probably the most abrasively intelligent letter ever to appear in Melody Maker , in which he laid out with admirable succinctness the differences between his pop aesthetic ( making sense of the world , pop as motivator ) and what he identified as the MM aesthetic of pop as dissipation . |
| 7 | Mr De Benedetti 's testimony amounted to a scathing attack on Italy 's political establishment and what he describes as the ‘ climate of extortion ’ imposed by politicians in order to wring bribes out of businesses trying to supply the public sector . |
| 8 | The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people . |
| 9 | Appalled at the annual wakes week , with its general exodus to Morecambe and Blackpool , and what he saw as the mindless spending of hard-earned wages on inane amusements , Leonard proposed an alternative form of holiday . |
| 10 | De Klerk declared that the point had now been reached when the " remaining vestiges of violence could be countered with the ordinary laws of the land " , except in Natal , where the " destruction of human life and property " and what he described as the " exceptionally high level of intimidation which exists there " had " assumed shocking proportions " and needed to be countered " by the strongest means available " . |
| 11 | Reginald Bray , a friend of Masterman 's , would remark on the same development : As Bray organised the arguments of Iris powerful Christian treatise on The Town Child ( 1907 ) around deep shades of pastoral contrast between the serenity of natural phenomena and what he regarded as the unnatural and shallow inconsistency of the irreverent city , he thought that ‘ the most remarkable effect of an urban environment is to be sought in the disappearance of the habit of self-control ’ : The riotous jingo crowds which had accompanied the Ladysmith and Mafeking celebrations during the Boer War had indeed provided one of the most visible manifestations of these perceived alterations among the British people , and observing that ‘ to ‘ Maffick ’ ’ is not really congenial to the British character' The Times ( 30 October 1900 ) had mused upon whether ‘ our national character was changing for the worse ’ . |
| 12 | Recalling , no doubt , the sad disruptions of her own early life , she declared that ‘ our grand study has been to make him happy ’ , and added that under their Rousseau-inspired regime , in which Basil was taught nothing ‘ but what he learns from the evidence of his senses ’ , he had become ‘ certainly the most contented child I ever saw ; the least disposed to be fretful . ’ |
| 13 | But what he wrote on the Celts was mainly to be found in the history of the period circa 146–80 ) and in his books on Pompey 's wars . |
| 14 | But what he said about the role technology would play in the war seems to have been as accurate as the laser-guided bombs shown on television . |