Example sentences of "what he have [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 2 | The books and papers were wrapped in a silk cloth and , smiling , Craig knew he had found what he had been looking for . |
| 3 | When he was living in his body , he had it made over so many times that there was hardly any of what he had been born with left . |
| 4 | Listening to them , Folly realised that she had never got around to asking Luke what he had been doing at Lexy 's flat the night before . |
| 5 | Oddly the thought still writhed within him — the thought of other men using the body he had loved himself , being given wholesale what he had been offered as an inestimable gift . |
| 6 | He joined the church 's prayer for boldness to do exactly what he had been told by the authorities not to do . |
| 7 | By way of illustration , he cited the case of his Preface to The Dark Side of the Moon , which , according to what he had been told by a Foreign Office official , would certainly be so taken ; but I felt that there would be infinitely more likelihood of the remarks of T. S. Eliot being heeded than those of E. W. F. Tomlin . |
| 8 | It was what he had been waiting for . |
| 9 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 10 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 11 | As the minority population became more vociferous in its demands and more openly nationalist and republican , the stature of Paisley in the loyalist camp was proportionately increased because Protestants looked back at what he had been saying in the early days of O'Neill 's reign and saw that ‘ he had been right all along ’ . |
| 12 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 13 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
| 14 | As soon as Moby was too old for puppy classes , he went to the bigger-dog classes , run by Jenny , to reinforce what he 'd been taught at puppy classes and , most importantly , what he 'd learned at home . |
| 15 | Now he 'd lost track of what he 'd been thinking of completely . |
| 16 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 17 | Did he say what he 'd been doing with himself ? |
| 18 | By comparison , what he 'd been doing in the cafeteria block was mere journeyman stuff . |
| 19 | But he went on refusing to say anything at all about what he 'd been doing in Paris . |
| 20 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 21 | The ammunition was soft-nosed , not what he 'd been used to but the only kind that was allowed for hunting . |
| 22 | At last she knew what he 'd been keeping from her . |
| 23 | Fringe took up his position alongside with familiarity and eagerness , an athlete doing what he 'd been bred for , and enjoyed . |
| 24 | He 'd gone and been impressed with what he 'd been told by the visiting medium , though he was n't convinced . |
| 25 | yes , but you talked , listened to a parson on telly , he 's convinced what he 's saying true , yet it 's only what he 's been told in it ? |
| 26 | Chairman , I 've listened with erm interest to Professor erm weasel words explaining that he did n't mean what he 's been saying for the past three years and trying to explain away what he 's effectively and he might as well admit it a complete volte face worse than that his agreement to an arrangement which he knows is second best . |
| 27 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 28 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 29 | Lamb did not and that is what he has been disciplined for . ’ |