Example sentences of "what he [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I would advise the hon. Gentleman not to believe what he reads in the newspapers about the bonus for British Rail 's chairman . |
| 32 | ‘ At least , Punch did to me what he does to the horses in the spring . |
| 33 | Now we 're going to see what he does for the economy , what he does for the underclass , and so on |
| 34 | Now we 're going to see what he does for the economy , what he does for the underclass , and so on |
| 35 | What he does with the power is bound to be upsetting . |
| 36 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 37 | So he 's gon na ask them what he does about the vibrating . |
| 38 | By the means/ends equation , I mean the assumption that what the learner has eventually to achieve by way of language ability should determine what he does in the process of acquiring that ability . |
| 39 | The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people . |
| 40 | Say what you like about his awful presence , he could gain a not inconsiderable reputation for what he does in the comfort of his den . |
| 41 | Recently he penned probably the most abrasively intelligent letter ever to appear in Melody Maker , in which he laid out with admirable succinctness the differences between his pop aesthetic ( making sense of the world , pop as motivator ) and what he identified as the MM aesthetic of pop as dissipation . |
| 42 | Gabriel sold all his farm tools to pay what he owed for the sheep . |
| 43 | Next season they 'll be augmented by teetotal Aussie pro Gavin Corcoran said to spend on the bandit what he saves on the beer and by a new scorebox built by hirsute skipper Colin ‘ Winker ’ Watson and resembling the leaning tower of Kimblesworth . |
| 44 | What he brought to the Card Trio was what the singers also brought , which is dramatic tension ; and yet its subtlety is such that it does not draw attention to itself , but simply contributes to the dramatic fabric of the whole . |
| 45 | Unfortunately for the government , it became clear that Mosley meant what he said about the scandal of mass unemployment and the greater scandal of Labour 's failure to do anything about it . |
| 46 | And you know what he said about the girls ? |
| 47 | But what he said about the role technology would play in the war seems to have been as accurate as the laser-guided bombs shown on television . |
| 48 | Secondly , while I heard what he said about the fact that , in the case of Mr. Thorpe , the process in north Devon was not exhausted , the theoretical position remains that the treatment may not have been available in north Devon , but was made available in London by virtue of the fact that Mr. Thorpe had two residences and was registered in two places . |
| 49 | I agree with what he said about the Association of British Insurers , the insurance industry and the motor car industry , here , in western Europe and increasingly in central Europe — not to mention Japan and Korea . |
| 50 | Bunny buried his face in his beer and I only just caught what he said over the noise from the band . |
| 51 | ‘ I can not associate what he said with the action of killing . |
| 52 | When he spoke to her she could scarcely hear what he said for the thudding of her lovesick heart and the chattering of her teeth . |
| 53 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 54 | I do n't know what he said to the lady of the house , but we were not invited to return . |
| 55 | The intent can best be proved by an admission from the accused or what he said to the female to whom he exposed himself . |
| 56 | Though I tried to read Marx I could n't connect what he said to the world I knew . |
| 57 | In response to his anxiety , perhaps he will send me quotations of what he said during the period of the last Labour Government when 30,980 jobs were lost in the mining industry in Wales . |
| 58 | Mr. Grist : The Hon. Gentleman , too , is repeating what he said in the debate . |
| 59 | If he comes to court , what happened at the police station does n't matter because he 'll then give direct evidence , not what he said in the police station but what actually happened on that night in the , in the estate . |
| 60 | A Member of Parliament may deeply regret what he said in the heat of a debate ; but he can never have the record changed on the plea of ‘ I did n't mean to say that . ’ |