Example sentences of "what he [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In late 1927 the PCF offered Nizan sanctuary from what he perceived as the alienation of bourgeois society . |
| 3 | Why had n't he told me what he thought at the time ? |
| 4 | Only the driver 's expression showed what he thought of the idea of living in a place like that . |
| 5 | On the day itself , Norman Mailer , then a juror at the Cannes film festival , was asked what he thought of the movies on offer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Last year the award was won by Ernie Acker at Charlbury station , and we asked him what he thought of the awards . |
| 9 | Open Systems Today asked Dennis Ritchie , one of the creators of Unix , what he thought of the Novell/USL deal . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he says about the Army Cadet Force , with which many hon. Members will agree . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For example , set your marketing manager the target of getting some positive publicity and let him control what he says to the press . |
| 16 | If the Secretary of State wishes to be believed at the Dispatch Box , he must honour what he says at the Dispatch Box . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That 's what he got from the post , I bet he bought two of them . |
| 20 | What he noticed in the camps , however , were large numbers of evangelicals , presumably converted by American missionaries while the Catholic priests were away . |
| 21 | Of course , says East Anglian artist John Eno-Daynes , who yesterday demonstrated exactly what he meant at the Wilson Marriage Centre , Colchester . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | A regular TV commentator and after-dinner speaker , McGuigan also passes on what he learnt in the ring through motivational seminars for businesses . |
| 25 | Will my right hon. Friend tell the House what he feels about the accuracy of the continued Russian accounting for nuclear warheads ? |
| 26 | Number 47 was either talking to you or the car ; he was incapable of socializing what he felt about the Mitsubishi . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But skipper Dave Watson revealed : ‘ Tony was disappointed at being dropped and he said what he felt at the time . |
| 29 | But love was what he felt for the stranger who 'd thrust herself upon him . |
| 30 | He would , perhaps , not have been so pushy and annoying to the other boys ; as that was the result of not being allowed to say what he felt in the past . |