Example sentences of "what he [vb -s] [prep] [art] [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 | In the company 's variety trials , the set has ranged from what he describes as a good normal 75% of available flowers to as little as 20% . |
| 4 | He had not come back after he had been given general advice , and he had what he describes as an uneasy peace in the relationship with his girlfriend . |
| 5 | A distinguished psychosomatic physician , Dr A. Cameron Macdonald , documented his own findings on what he describes as the water-retention syndrome . |
| 6 | So far , he has been encouraged by what he describes as the responsible way councils have handled the introduction of the new tax . |
| 7 | This final show in the present series left viewers in no doubt about what he thinks of a certain film or its cast . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | But D Dave , Dave , Dave could not handle , in B E S , what he handles on the civil side . |
| 10 | It is even more strongly reinforced if by means of it he obtains what he wants in a foreign language environment . |
| 11 | And I know what he means about the long vistas of precedent , like endless suites of anterooms , that open backwards from these recurring moments . |
| 12 | Moore 's account of what he means by a natural property is none too clear , but in effect it means something like detectable by the senses or by scientific instruments . |
| 13 | That 's what he means by the black books of Freud . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But he 's not prepared to compromise on what he regards as a moral issue . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 : |
| 19 | Michael had originally intended to run Royal Ballerina in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp the day after the St Leger and now Kauntze is hoping for dry conditions at Doncaster for what he regards as an easier race . |
| 20 | Michael had originally intended to run Royal Ballerina in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp the day after the St Leger and now Kauntze is hoping for dry conditions at Doncaster for what he regards as an easier race . |
| 21 | Turner himself is rather philosophical about this question but he 's obviously angry about what he sees as a major failure of imagination on behalf of his record company ( RCA in America , Beggars Banquet on this side of the world ) . |
| 22 | Back home seven months after his release from prison in Goa , Nicholas Brown is a bitter man , angry about what he sees as a complete lack of help from the British authorities . |
| 23 | All his energies are directed towards correcting what he sees as a tragic natural mistake . |
| 24 | PETER HARTLAND looks down the corridors of history and produces what he sees as the supreme England one-day team |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He loves to bully and to unleash his hounds on what he sees as the snooty , wishy-washy liberal establishment . |
| 27 | If the person never saw the figure otherwise than as he does now , to say that he interprets what he sees in a certain way may be taken — because of ( 1 ) above — to imply that all seeing involves ( a ) the immediate awareness of something uninterpreted and ( b ) the interpretation of it in the light of past experience . |