Example sentences of "what he [modal v] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , he was entering with a new singleness of purpose the creative landscape of his own mind , and sensed already that what he might achieve in the months ahead would surpass anything which had resulted from two very public years in Bristol . |
| 2 | He comforted himself with the saying of Uncle Jan — ‘ the devil is never so black as he is painted ’ — and dreamed of what he might accomplish in the company of such a woman , in collaboration with her soft femaleness . |
| 3 | Does it have a WYSIWYG mode or , to put it into English , does the user see on the screen exactly what he 'll get on the page ? |
| 4 | I wondered how comfortable he would be and what he would make of the covers I had borrowed from the farmer 's wife . |
| 5 | Asked last year what he would do about the loss of his top stars , Grigorovich said defiantly : ‘ If the stars leave we will bring up another generation , and when they go , we will bring up another . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Baughan is in no doubt about what he would do to the attackers . |
| 7 | In a document which contained precious little about what he would do for the future of British agriculture , he had one crumb of comfort for the farmer . |
| 8 | So I held my breath when conductor En Shao took the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra through the fastest fourth movement of Tchaikovsky 's 4th symphony I have ever heard , wondering what he would do with the resonations . |
| 9 | He knew what he 'd find in the wardrobe upstairs if he ever had to search the place . |
| 10 | ‘ He came in to the shop and asked me what he should wear on the date . |
| 11 | For years he and his father before him had endured advice from well-meaning lunatics as to what he should do with the place — concreting the stones , or letting archaeologists burrow under them with their excavations , or digging a defensive moat round it — and Sir Edmund Antrobus , Bart , had had enough . |
| 12 | Later in the day , a clam , dark brown Sunsail mechanic elbowed his way through the crowd of friendly Turks on the quay to see what he could do about the fuel line . |
| 13 | His back was already turned , so he did not see Hilary Frome 's gesture , expressive of what he could do with the Cullbridge Athenaeum . |
| 14 | When they had been in the chemist 's buying shampoo , Mr Kennedy had asked what he could do for the two young ladies and they had been pleased . |
| 15 | As an anxious new father , Belinda 's partner , Jem , read everything he could find about Down 's syndrome because he wanted to know what he could expect from the future . |
| 16 | Petrol , food and a few tools had been his biggest expenses so far , and if the budget started to tighten he 'd have to stop buying food and see what he could find in the woodland around him . |
| 17 | If they live near to Mrs Richards 's villa , then one of them might have slipped down in the confusion to see what he could find in the surgery . ’ |
| 18 | What he could see of the flat told him nothing . |
| 19 | Although it may have taken only an instant , the person to whom this sentence refers had to make the logical jump from what he could see of the possible escape routes open to him to the realization that flight was impossible . |
| 20 | When Escalus cross-examines him , this is done in prose , as befits his true status ( 260ff. ) , and when Angelo invites Lucio to state what he can witness against the Friar-Duke , the medium drops to prose for all four speakers ( 327–33 ) , to be catapulted back to verse as Lucio pulls off the hood and reveals the Duke 's identity . |
| 21 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |
| 22 | If he can only argue to himself that they seem ’ interesting' it is highly likely that he does not really know why he is putting them in , or what he will do with the answers when he gets them . |
| 23 | In our case , of course , it is a mature , open and enquiring critical mind that leads us to read on into the churls ' tales of " harlotrie " , not a degrading taste for such material and a lack of interest in : We might see the combination of the intrinsically low status of the Miller and the consequently low expectations of what he will produce with the sophistication of his narrative performance as simply an entertaining absurdity , or perhaps a burlesque , like Chauntecleer 's discursive pomp and display in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale . |
| 24 | The Minister will have to tell me what he will discuss with the trade unions . |