Example sentences of "be [Wh det] [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.

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1 None the less , his fall from favour and loss of revenue farms and offices under the restored Commonwealth of 1659 may have been what stood him in best stead in the following year , rather than secret payments to the Royalist cause before May 1660 , for which there is no evidence beyond inference .
2 That 's what brought him to the Sleek Physique club in Didcot at the weekend — together with a legion of fans .
3 I think that 's what turned him off club management — he knew what his interests were and decided he could walk away from the hassle .
4 This last characteristic is of central importance : this , above all else , is what associates him with the earlier philhellenes and their quest for wholeness , and sets him against his own scholarly profession .
5 After high school in Greece , to which the family returned when Mendoros was in his teens , he looked round for the best place to pursue his obsession — which is what brought him to Perth .
6 It went on and on and that was what solidified him in America .
7 He would just do it if it was right and that , in the end , was what got him into trouble . ’
8 Perhaps that was what baffled him about her .
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