Example sentences of "what he [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In late 1927 the PCF offered Nizan sanctuary from what he perceived as the alienation of bourgeois society . |
| 2 | Why had n't he told me what he thought at the time ? |
| 3 | Only the driver 's expression showed what he thought of the idea of living in a place like that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he says about the Army Cadet Force , with which many hon. Members will agree . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For example , set your marketing manager the target of getting some positive publicity and let him control what he says to the press . |
| 9 | If the Secretary of State wishes to be believed at the Dispatch Box , he must honour what he says at the Dispatch Box . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That 's what he got from the post , I bet he bought two of them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | A regular TV commentator and after-dinner speaker , McGuigan also passes on what he learnt in the ring through motivational seminars for businesses . |
| 16 | Will my right hon. Friend tell the House what he feels about the accuracy of the continued Russian accounting for nuclear warheads ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But skipper Dave Watson revealed : ‘ Tony was disappointed at being dropped and he said what he felt at the time . |
| 19 | But love was what he felt for the stranger who 'd thrust herself upon him . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Now we 're going to see what he does for the economy , what he does for the underclass , and so on |
| 22 | Now we 're going to see what he does for the economy , what he does for the underclass , and so on |
| 23 | What he does with the power is bound to be upsetting . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So he 's gon na ask them what he does about the vibrating . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |