Example sentences of "what he [modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know what he 'll think of this ! |
| 2 | He had no idea what he would do after that . |
| 3 | And what he used to do in this , he had a string in the and er he could the string put some some er crumbs in the in the er in a and the birds go in and he used to he used to catch them and we used to kill them and pluck them you know . |
| 4 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |
| 5 | I wonder what he 'd say about this game ? |
| 6 | But he never did tell me what he 'd put on that stick . ’ |
| 7 | He will also appreciate having his memory jogged as to what he should record at any given time . |
| 8 | So I er , I politely told him what he could do with that , well , I was eating his dinner and I could n't be too rude to him , but erm , you know , when er when , when confronted , I do n't give ground over that kind of thing . |
| 9 | Baldric , well informed through long dealings in Flanders , said drily , ‘ You would be surprised what he could do with those ships . |
| 10 | Wordsworth 's power as a poet is seen in what he can do with such material , so that after reading Stepping Westward these commonplaces , while retaining universality , are made new for us . |
| 11 | Well he 's running up now , see what he can do with this one , ooh , over second slip down to the four runs another one has slip and a leap , like Botham and erm , away he went . |
| 12 | If the final grade is largely determined by course-work marks , how are you to mark a piece of work completed in a pupil 's first term of his introduction to a subject , compared with what he can do after five or six terms ? |
| 13 | We know what he can do in that department . |
| 14 | On second thoughts , take Shaw and see what he can make of that computer thing . ’ |
| 15 | A person 's actions can be explained in terms of his following of tacit conventions , but our knowledge of the rules will not allow us to predict what he will do at any given time . |
| 16 | And what is more ’ — her voice dropped now and she leant towards Agnes — ‘ I 'm afraid of your father , I mean , for him , what he will do to that … person if he meets him again , for he will certainly do him an injury . ’ |