Example sentences of "what he [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | And how old he is , what he does for a living , how much he 's got in the bank — and probably whether he 's twice divorced with a string of children tucked away somewhere . ’ |
3 | " Know what he does for a living ? " |
4 | You do n't even know what he does for a living properly ! ’ |
5 | He could spin a yarn , and you had to take what he said with a pinch of salt . |
6 | I will deal with what he said in a moment . |
7 | Pilger was disgusted by what he saw as a load of hand-wringing , indecisive amateurs . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Sinatra blew his top and accused both Lawfords of covering up what he saw as a vendetta being waged by Bobby against him . |
11 | At Oxford , Mr Gould joined the Labour Party partly in response to what he saw as an attempt by the City to frustrate the 1964 election results and he has retained a disdain for the get-rich-quick philosophy of the City ever since . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | He was probably spoilt by his sisters , and and got more or less what he wanted as a child , and |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Here he became what he described as a kind of paying guest with the Mirrlees . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | One crucial explanation produced by Swift-Hook for the failure to take wind power seriously enough was what he described in an interview with the Hinkley Inquirer as ‘ the naughty reasons ’ . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | It 's not what he put on a woman , he put a on a woman , or something like that . |