Example sentences of "[prep] what he [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's more obvious to the audience how , like , Tony 's just after what he can get sort of thing . |
| 2 | It had been a convenient fiction to smooth the path towards what he must have seen as their inevitable destiny in that great , soft bed . |
| 3 | It was his conception , his baby , and for it he would tolerate most things , including his suspicion of Trotskyism — whether of the IMG or IS variety — and of what he may have seen as Rowbotham 's ‘ hippy sentimentality ’ . |
| 4 | He told her at length of what he would do and what she would do . |
| 5 | And Forester had no idea of what he would do then . |
| 6 | ‘ Quite right , sir , ’ thinking lovingly of what he would do when he was promoted Inspector . |
| 7 | The sunlight and cloud came and went , rode over and away on , just as possibilities of what he would do next did . |
| 8 | In the event , the deal which has emerged in Taif has justified the general 's fears of what he would regard as a sell-out of the Maronite cause . |
| 9 | Yet , in this context , Professor Heinz Woolf of Brunel University has frequently discussed the use of what he would prefer to call ‘ tools for living ’ rather than ‘ aids for the handicapped ’ , on the basis that customers should be able to purchase these items without having a disabled label attached to themselves . |
| 10 | He was already thinking of what he would write to her as he turned into the main road : |
| 11 | Just to think of what he would say if he came home from a Council meeting and found an American soldier sitting in his parlour made Carrie 's stomach shrivel . |
| 12 | And he had no idea of where to go , and how to find her — nor of what he would say to her when he did find her , either at the embassy or anywhere else she might have gone . |
| 13 | Just for a moment her eyes lingered hungrily on his face before she looked away , terrified of what he would read on her own face . |
| 14 | Were he alive today he would undoubtedly have bemoaned the fact that he was the frequent target of what he would have probably called ‘ scribblers ’ . |
| 15 | Not that Denholm would have claimed to be anything of what he would have said to be the ridiculous kind . |
| 16 | A knowledge of the working of a solicitor 's office , particularly er o of those departments handling non-contentious business , can not be automatically imputed to the judge or to council and he may as well make it is not uncommon for an expert witness to give evidence of what he would have done in a particular situation after consideration and er I resign on that because in my submission er the issues in this case are clearly issues of mixed fact and law and my Lord it is seen from the report handed up that there is particularly in relation to the erm financial aspect of the case , reference to a provision within a professional conduct of solicitors guide as to what the nature of the er duties of the solicitor in the situation is . |
| 17 | It was then getting near the time that I could turn him out , again I put it off , frightened of what he might do . |
| 18 | Her imagination jagged with tumbling violent images of what he might do to her . |
| 19 | ‘ She was afraid of what he might do when she told him she was n't going to keep up the pretence any longer and everything she did in future was to be sold as her own work . ’ |
| 20 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 21 | And I am more worried about what he thinks of me than of what he might do to Havvie . ’ |
| 22 | She wanted to know , and yet was terrified of what he might tell her . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We can study in these terms what an author has written against the background of what he might have written , had he failed to apply certain transformations , or chosen to apply others instead . |
| 25 | Then I thought of what he might have done . |
| 26 | ‘ It kills me to think of what he might have suffered . |
| 27 | He wanted to find her , certainly , but not so much because of his job as a reporter , rather because of what he might learn from her . |
| 28 | He could not have borne a mirror in the room with him now , for fear of what he might see ; in his heart he knew that it would be unrecognisable , as he failed to recognise the turmoil of his own feelings as having anything to do with the self he had always known . |
| 29 | Afraid of the occupant of that room , afraid of what he might find , yet , simultaneously , knowing exactly what he would find . |
| 30 | Just a desperate imitation of what he must think the real thing 's like . |