Example sentences of "what he have [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wishart thought back to what he had heard about that fateful night at the banquet . |
| 2 | Umpire Bird called Waqar for a second over-shoulder-high bouncer to Smith in his next over , and signalled what he had done with laudable clarity . |
| 3 | This was not what he had wanted at all . |
| 4 | Asked what he had achieved during such brief talks , Mr Christopher said : ‘ A commitment from the Lebanese government to resume negotiations as soon as possible . ’ |
| 5 | This was indeed fortunate as it prevented him from revealing the fossilization of his mind by repeating much of what he had written in 1986 . |
| 6 | I said ( I was shocked , because from what he had said about other things , I thought he must be Labour , I knew he had been a Communist once ) , I 'd rather we had the New People than poor people . |
| 7 | Nor could he even remember now what he had said in that burst of spleen . |
| 8 | One nineteenth century account of him reads : ‘ Strong minded but very illiterate … he made all his calculations by the strength of his memory , and was equally at a loss to explain what he had conceived to any other person , and from being lowly educated he had no means of conveying to paper his designs , yet would cast up the most intricate accounts in his head without difficulty or error . ’ |
| 9 | As an ex-financial journalist , Lawson had opinions about the limitations of trial by jury formed by what he had seen of financial scandals when working as a City Editor . |
| 10 | He also said that the envelope the Brownie had kindly picked up had dropped from the Earl 's pocket without being noticed by him , and that as the Brownie was so kind as to share her sweets with him the Earl was sending a tin of his own , which he felt sure from what he had seen of this Brownie would find their way into the mouths of all the other Brownies in the Pack too . |
| 11 | He had come to Addis Ababa as correspondent for the Graphic and he later made use of the occasion to parody what he had seen in Black Mischief and other books . |
| 12 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |
| 13 | Sometimes when talking he would forget to call something by its name , and describe it instead , remembering what he had read in one of his books . |
| 14 | It was impossible to tell the age of the man who owned that face , what he had looked like five minutes ago , or even that that was the face of a man . |
| 15 | Knowing their speed from the films and their weight and limb lengths , McMahon found that the configuration of motion in human walking perfectly matched what he had predicted from 19th-century physics . |
| 16 | So that was what he had meant by seven lengths of the corridor ! |
| 17 | But what he had taken at first for raindrops on the wagon floor were actually pennies , halfpennies and farthings scattered everywhere . |
| 18 | This was n't what he 'd planned at all , a detour . |
| 19 | They 'd no internal passports in this tiny country , but from what he 'd seen of this building they had computers the like of which the Leningrad Militia could only dream about . |
| 20 | and what he 'd done to this pillow was no one 's business . |
| 21 | I wonder what he 's done with that ? |
| 22 | I think whilst the Secretary of State has clearly said what he 's said in that decision letter . |
| 23 | Is that what he 's got at this |
| 24 | I do n't know what he 's got on special , so |
| 25 | And what makes his analysis so attractive is the fact that he has resolutely turned his back on the temptations to reduce what he has seen to some supposedly more fundamental principle of animal behaviour . |
| 26 | And what he has done with such ready money as he kept about his house neither I nor his clerk can tell as yet . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It will take a generation for this country 's railways to recover from what he has done in this one year . ’ |
| 28 | But as they analyse what he has said to different people , they begin to see that the question is not really pertinent . |
| 29 | For me , it was as much a personal triumph for the coach , Ian McGeechan , as anybody else , because of what he has achieved with this side in such a short space of time . |
| 30 | But such knowledge would not be systematically imparted , with a view of long-term utility , nor with the aim of enabling the student to adapt what he has learned to new and hitherto unthought of situations . |