Example sentences of "what he [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Bunny buried his face in his beer and I only just caught what he said over the noise from the band . |
| 36 | ‘ I can not associate what he said with the action of killing . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 39 | I do n't know what he said to the lady of the house , but we were not invited to return . |
| 40 | The intent can best be proved by an admission from the accused or what he said to the female to whom he exposed himself . |
| 41 | Though I tried to read Marx I could n't connect what he said to the world I knew . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Mr. Grist : The Hon. Gentleman , too , is repeating what he said in the debate . |
| 44 | 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 . ’ |
| 45 | He has allowed The Art Newspaper to republish what he said in the Dalmatian ( therefore Croatian ) periodical Nedjeljna Dalmacija last 5 September , because , he says , everything he said then remains true today . |
| 46 | IV Intelligence School who immediately made arrangements for a billet in nearby Linslade. from what he heard of the telephone conversation , Harold gathered that the billetor was unwilling to have a private soldier , and had to be persuaded that this particular specimen knew how to behave . |
| 47 | His aims included rectifying what he saw as the lack of information on derived publications , and on the time differences between thesis completion and publication . |
| 48 | To him , the " checks and balances " of Natural Selection were only some of the forces operating in what he saw as the evolution of spirit or mind through matter . |
| 49 | His elitist paternalism underlay laws which instituted strict political and social controls for what he saw as the country 's politically immature population . |
| 50 | This was inevitable because Jesus remained totally obedient to what he saw as the will of God for him . |
| 51 | The poet did not share this sense , he actively disliked it , but he could not escape — not even in Europe — from what he saw as the balefulness of that inheritance . |
| 52 | He lacked the apparent knowledge , or confidence in the political verities displayed by what he saw as the heavyweight end of the editorial group , and friction occasionally surfaced . |
| 53 | But I know what he saw at the time — three mere candle-flames and three mere shadows . |
| 54 | He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist . |
| 55 | Besides , what he saw outside the window had too much potency , too much spell-binding sweetness for him to turn his back on it . |
| 56 | He appeared to be very perplexed and more than a little frightened by what he saw in the lavatory window above him . |
| 57 | He was so moved by what he saw inside the orphange that he felt he had to do something to give the children a better start . |
| 58 | She told him about the puzzle of the second set of keys , then Harbury wandered back and began to say what he knew of the case . |
| 59 | Kirov mulled over what he knew of the man thus far . |
| 60 | Freddie the Nark was a shrewd character , he thought , and from what he knew of the man Billy realised that he must tread very carefully . |