Example sentences of "what he [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day itself , Norman Mailer , then a juror at the Cannes film festival , was asked what he thought of the movies on offer . |
| 2 | When Edwin Chadwick , the great English public health expert , was visiting Paris , he met the Emperor who asked him what he thought of the improvements in Paris , to which he replied : ‘ Sir , it was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble . |
| 3 | Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) . |
| 4 | Lowe was in Auckland promoting a video of his life and times — inevitably referring to him as a ‘ master coach ’ which is now becoming one of the more boring sporting clichés — and was asked what he thought of the All Blacks ' failure to bring home the Cup . |
| 5 | Open Systems Today asked Dennis Ritchie , one of the creators of Unix , what he thought of the Novell/USL deal . |
| 6 | Karl Marx said long ago , ‘ There is a plank in the mind of every Englishman — ’ ( I do n't know what he thought of the Scots ) — ‘ beyond which it is impossible to penetrate with a new idea . ’ |
| 7 | Only the driver 's expression showed what he thought of the idea of living in a place like that . |
| 8 | Last year the award was won by Ernie Acker at Charlbury station , and we asked him what he thought of the awards . |
| 9 | In their extreme forms the ‘ techniques ’ school would have it that an actor 's performance is detached from his own feelings during performance , that he represents a distillation of what he understands of the character 's feelings ; the Stanislavkian actor , on the other hand , becomes emotionally involved as he performs his role . |
| 10 | IV Intelligence School who immediately made arrangements for a billet in nearby Linslade. from what he heard of the telephone conversation , Harold gathered that the billetor was unwilling to have a private soldier , and had to be persuaded that this particular specimen knew how to behave . |
| 11 | ‘ There is apparently some great defect in our system , ’ concluded Khrushchev from his pensioner 's park bench as he compared what he saw of the capitalist West with the shoddy goods , poor food and massive waste of the supposed workers ' paradise . |
| 12 | He liked what he saw of the school and got on well with the Chairman of the Governors , a fellow classicist . |
| 13 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 14 | Kirov mulled over what he knew of the man thus far . |
| 15 | Erlich told Rutherford what he knew of the assassin who spoke with an English accent , and to whom the word ‘ Colt ’ had been shouted . |
| 16 | Freddie the Nark was a shrewd character , he thought , and from what he knew of the man Billy realised that he must tread very carefully . |
| 17 | In an attempt partly to offer a tribute and perhaps in some way to attempt a readjustment of the balance against him , he recited what he knew of the church 's founding saint . |
| 18 | Recalling what he knew of the ardours and achievements of Freeborn 's forty odd years in the Forensic Science Service , the difficult war years , the delayed retirement , the last five years when he had exchanged his directorship for the frustrations of bureaucracy , Dalgliesh said : |
| 19 | The ambassador tried to explain what he knew of the sources of unrest and said he thought the mullahs were getting their money from the merchants in the bazaars , not from the CIA . |
| 20 | She told him about the puzzle of the second set of keys , then Harbury wandered back and began to say what he knew of the case . |
| 21 | During the interminable journey Edward turned what he knew of the affair over and over in his mind , and wondered if it could possibly , really , happen . |
| 22 | He thought about what he knew of the victims . |
| 23 | Asked what he thinks of the pro-Labour stance , Blakenham adds cagily : ‘ I would n't like my own views to be taken out of context . ’ |
| 24 | Raleigh replies when the Queen asks him what he thinks of the dispute between Essex and Mountjoy , and the last line is set with a homely finality which reminds us that , by the end of Gloriana 's reign , Raleigh is no longer a young man , and that the historic Raleigh had a taste for literary homily , as in his poem The Lie " . |
| 25 | what he thinks of the match has n't he ? |
| 26 | And , from what he remembered of the funeral ( his grandmother 's ) , the ushers looked like men who were trying hard not to snigger . |