Example sentences of "what he [verb] [prep] [art] [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 Such an analysis is compelling if counsel for B had , in what he perceived as the interests of his client , decided not to pursue any grounds beyond the certified question provided that the House would have allowed him to address those grounds had he raised them .
3 In late 1927 the PCF offered Nizan sanctuary from what he perceived as the alienation of bourgeois society .
4 Why had n't he told me what he thought at the time ?
5 Only the driver 's expression showed what he thought of the idea of living in a place like that .
6 On the day itself , Norman Mailer , then a juror at the Cannes film festival , was asked what he thought of the movies on offer .
7 When Edwin Chadwick , the great English public health expert , was visiting Paris , he met the Emperor who asked him what he thought of the improvements in Paris , to which he replied : ‘ Sir , it was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble .
8 Karl Marx said long ago , ‘ There is a plank in the mind of every Englishman — ’ ( I do n't know what he thought of the Scots ) — ‘ beyond which it is impossible to penetrate with a new idea . ’
9 Last year the award was won by Ernie Acker at Charlbury station , and we asked him what he thought of the awards .
10 Open Systems Today asked Dennis Ritchie , one of the creators of Unix , what he thought of the Novell/USL deal .
11 Gandhi could certainly quote the teaching of the Gītā in support of this view , but it would still not detract from what he says about the demoralizing , degrading , and brutalizing effects of war .
12 Much of what he says about the roads and tracks depicted there is perceptive and useful , but even Professor Hoskins is wrong in the attribution of many of them .
13 What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’
14 I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he says about the Army Cadet Force , with which many hon. Members will agree .
15 The unsympathetic nature of his criticisms is also illustrated by what he says about the requirement that such universal premisses be ‘ better known ’ than their conclusions .
16 For example , set your marketing manager the target of getting some positive publicity and let him control what he says to the press .
17 If the Secretary of State wishes to be believed at the Dispatch Box , he must honour what he says at the Dispatch Box .
18 The Pensioner was , however , careful to note that ‘ it 's the votes in Parliament that show up your MP , NOT WHAT HE SAYS ON THE PLATFORM . ’
19 If what he says in the scum book is true then how could we let that happen , surely Blackburn could have been squeezed for a goodly 3 squiddlys .
20 The leader may also do a lot of listening but have the qualities , lacking in the others , of putting what he hears into an initiative .
21 That 's what he got from the post , I bet he bought two of them .
22 What he noticed in the camps , however , were large numbers of evangelicals , presumably converted by American missionaries while the Catholic priests were away .
23 Of course , says East Anglian artist John Eno-Daynes , who yesterday demonstrated exactly what he meant at the Wilson Marriage Centre , Colchester .
24 In their extreme forms the ‘ techniques ’ school would have it that an actor 's performance is detached from his own feelings during performance , that he represents a distillation of what he understands of the character 's feelings ; the Stanislavkian actor , on the other hand , becomes emotionally involved as he performs his role .
25 Erm would the convenor say erm what he understands from the statement of faith and the statement of faith alone erm to be the teaching on the atonement that is , wh what are we taught about the atonement from the statement of faith ?
26 A regular TV commentator and after-dinner speaker , McGuigan also passes on what he learnt in the ring through motivational seminars for businesses .
27 Will my right hon. Friend tell the House what he feels about the accuracy of the continued Russian accounting for nuclear warheads ?
28 Number 47 was either talking to you or the car ; he was incapable of socializing what he felt about the Mitsubishi .
29 He begins with the mind as ‘ white paper ’ ( following Locke ) , describes ‘ external sensible objects ’ , then records — as , for example , in the ‘ sense of unknown modes of being ’ after the boat-stealing incident — what he felt at the time , and then adds a later ‘ reflection ’ or meditation upon the event from the point of view of the author writing in 1798–1805 .
30 But skipper Dave Watson revealed : ‘ Tony was disappointed at being dropped and he said what he felt at the time .
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