Example sentences of "what [verb] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what attracted him above all else to the magazine illustrators was their subject matter . |
| 2 | If it is then asked what drove him to this desperate end , Zande will refer you to the particular tensions and stresses of his life . |
| 3 | What prompts him to this unexpected adjective is that ( as Bunting stressed ) the poems these men admired were not ‘ simplified to aim at the poor ’ , but ‘ written for a hard intellectual audience ’ . |
| 4 | Everything that is most important about Camus , though , lies less in what identifies him with these names , these ideas , than in what distinguishes him from them — and that is the experience of growing up in ‘ poverty and sunlight ’ in Algiers . |
| 5 | But what irritated him above all was the jumble of loose ends he would be obliged to leave behind , just at the moment when he was beginning to see how to unravel them . |
| 6 | 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 . |