Example sentences of "what he [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common disguise is that of the jongleur or menestrel ( within the fabliau tales there is barely any discernible difference in status or respectability between these two although conventionally it is supposed that the former is lower than the latter ) : a disreputable itinerant entertainer living , creditably , off his wits and his talents , but only too vulnerable , and given to wasting what he gains on the temporary pleasures of drinking and gambling in the taverns ; a social outcast but at the same time one called upon by the members of normal society , as Jouglet is , both to instruct the ignorant young man and to play for the villagers . |
| 2 | The researcher 's own observations , albeit as yet rather unsystematic , seem to be supported to a degree by what he reads in the relevant literature and in other pieces of published research . |
| 3 | A distinguished psychosomatic physician , Dr A. Cameron Macdonald , documented his own findings on what he describes as the water-retention syndrome . |
| 4 | So far , he has been encouraged by what he describes as the responsible way councils have handled the introduction of the new tax . |
| 5 | Asked what he thinks of the pro-Labour stance , Blakenham adds cagily : ‘ I would n't like my own views to be taken out of context . ’ |
| 6 | But D Dave , Dave , Dave could not handle , in B E S , what he handles on the civil side . |
| 7 | And I know what he means about the long vistas of precedent , like endless suites of anterooms , that open backwards from these recurring moments . |
| 8 | That 's what he means by the black books of Freud . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Schumpeter 's main substantive target is what he regards as the nonsensical idea of classical democratic theory that the people can exercise a rational choice on individual questions and can give effect to this by choosing representatives . |
| 11 | A man qualified enough then , to select , out of a choice of just 12 and a half million , what he regards as the best pictures in the collection . |
| 12 | This perception leads Le Roy Ladurie to contrast the revolts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with what he regards as the national revolutionary movements of the Enlightenment : |
| 13 | PETER HARTLAND looks down the corridors of history and produces what he sees as the supreme England one-day team |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He loves to bully and to unleash his hounds on what he sees as the snooty , wishy-washy liberal establishment . |