Example sentences of "what he [vb past] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a revolutionary writer Nizan was confronted by what he perceived as a series of particularly acute technical problems which had their origin in the specific historical situation of post-First World War France . |
| 2 | He could spin a yarn , and you had to take what he said with a pinch of salt . |
| 3 | I will deal with what he said in a moment . |
| 4 | Pilger was disgusted by what he saw as a load of hand-wringing , indecisive amateurs . |
| 5 | In the 1720s , having become disillusioned with what he saw as a decline in the moral and spiritual standards of European culture , he formed the project of founding a college in Bermuda for the sons of English settlers and natives , both from Bermuda and the American mainland . |
| 6 | In truth , he merely tried to break down social barriers and taboos that surrounded sex in order to remove what he saw as a cause for psychological problems of the time . |
| 7 | Sinatra blew his top and accused both Lawfords of covering up what he saw as a vendetta being waged by Bobby against him . |
| 8 | Peach had an intuitive genius for discerning geological structures : what he saw on a mountainside led him to visualize the arrangement of the rocks below . |
| 9 | Hsu himself grew up in eastern China but his account is evidently a syncretic blend of what he learned as a child from personal experience and what he learned as an adult , several thousand miles away to the west , during fourteen months ' fieldwork in the Yunnanese city of Tali-fu , where he was employed for a while as a teacher in a local missionary college . |
| 10 | He was probably spoilt by his sisters , and and got more or less what he wanted as a child , and |
| 11 | He thought that he 'd found what he wanted in a village so small that it was n't even marked on his petrol-station roadmap . |
| 12 | His choice for our meeting of the Garrick Club , that temple of self-regard for actors and political journalists , therefore seemed a touch bold , but the need for what he described with a smile as a ‘ tranquil interior ’ was a fair enough alibi . |
| 13 | Yet Montgomerie , fresh from his second place behind Nick Faldo in Singapore , was less perturbed by their outstanding golf than what he described as a lack of big-time atmosphere on the splendid King 's Course inside his seaside palace at Agadir . |
| 14 | Yet Montgomerie , fresh from his second place behind Nick Faldo in Singapore , was less perturbed by their outstanding golf than what he described as a lack of big-time atmosphere on the splendid King 's Course inside the seaside palace at Agadir . |
| 15 | Here he became what he described as a kind of paying guest with the Mirrlees . |
| 16 | When my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook was Home Secretary , he used to draft for us what he described as a crime clock . |
| 17 | Reid developed a rather more interesting objection , one made earlier by Berkeley , which puts the case of a general who is conscious of things he did as an officer , but no longer conscious , as he was when an officer , of what he did as a boy . |
| 18 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 19 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
| 20 | Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach . |
| 21 | Preston , in the idle early hours when he was n't watching fifties horror movies , sometimes speculated on what kind of person he was and what he did for a living . |
| 22 | He looked elegantly at home , quite above this sort of thing , and she could n't help wondering who he actually was and what he did for a living . |
| 23 | It 's not what he put on a woman , he put a on a woman , or something like that . |
| 24 | In 1974 , he decided that none of the developmental systems being studied really gave him what he needed for a study of development . |
| 25 | In two months he will earn what he earned in a year working for the Pentagon . |
| 26 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 27 | Durkheim ( 1893 ) , in his discussion of the ‘ abnormal forms ’ of the division of labour , long ago drew attention to what he regarded as a condition of ‘ anomie ’ in the sphere of production , characterized by the absence of a body of rules governing the relations between different social functions — above all between labour and capital — and saw as both probable and desirable a growing normative regulation of industrial relations . |