Example sentences of "what he [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you what he does a bloody lot for |
| 2 | The Secretary of State repeated several times that we need such a scale of weaponry to provide what he calls a credible deterrent . |
| 3 | Now he works from what he calls a glorified shed . |
| 4 | Mr Stern has not flinched from talking to buyers , sellers , advisers , consultants , accountants , friends , farmers and agents in his determination to buy at what he considers a reasonable price . |
| 5 | Whatever the right labels , the attitudinist agrees that no properly ethical expression can be adequately defined in purely naturalistic or even metaphysical terms but offers what he thinks a better explanation of this fact than the invocation of non-natural properties , namely that such definitions ignore valuational or emotive meaning . |
| 6 | LORD ATKIN : The ordinary blackmailer normally threatens to do what he has a perfect right to do-namely , communicate some compromising conduct to a person whose knowledge is likely to affect the person threatened . |
| 7 | Interrupted by what he terms a second wave of moral regeneration and repression in the nineteenth century , it resumes its onward march from the 1860s , to the present . |