Example sentences of "what he [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bottle of what he took for whisky and four of beer . |
| 2 | Mm ! as good as what he took to bed . |
| 3 | Present Arsenal chairman Denis Hill-Wood says : ‘ If we asked him after a game what he thought of so-and-so 's performance he would say , ‘ Ask me on Monday . ’ |
| 4 | The more a critic wishes to substantiate what he says about style , the more he will need to point to the linguistic evidence of texts ; and linguistic evidence , to be farm , must be couched in terms of numerical frequency . |
| 5 | I mean , in respect of what he says about knowledge . |
| 6 | Of course , I endorse what he says about justice and peace and about the need for greater military security . |
| 7 | And what he says with authority ! |
| 8 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 9 | What he meant by mysticism was belief in a direct , immediate experience of God ( or of Jesus ) which dissolved the distinction between God and man or between Christ and ourselves , a rapture of union which could carry us beyond time and history and the challenge and responsibility of the present . |
| 10 | In this respect it is very important to understand just what he meant by exchange . |
| 11 | Followers of Gandhi explicitly maintain that he was essentially a practical man with no concern for metaphysics or philosophical speculation , yet it is clear that whenever he attempted to explain what he meant by Truth he was involved in metaphysical speculation whether he or his followers realized it or not . |
| 12 | David what he had at top of the garden , he put his dog in there |
| 13 | You give me anyone 's phone line and mail for a month and I 'll tell you exactly who he is , how old he is , his likes and dislikes , his character , his worries , what he had for breakfast and supper , what time he wakes up . |
| 14 | They know what he had for breakfast ’ . |
| 15 | But about himself he practically told me what he had for breakfast . |
| 16 | You know what he had for nix ? |
| 17 | Or he could jettison the myth and run in the second ballot as the leader of the majority , which was what he had in effect been since October 1962 . |
| 18 | It was not what he had in mind . |
| 19 | By his lauding the progressive role of the Red Army Bukharin 's audience would have grasped what he had in mind . |
| 20 | The expression on Vologsky 's face was too serious and pensive for what he had in mind . |
| 21 | He made clear what he had in mind : |
| 22 | William of Poitiers strove to emphasize the nobility of the West Frankish aristocracy , by calling Guy Geoffrey the Emperor Henry III 's brother ( he was his brother-in-law through the marriage of his sister Agnes ) , and by ascribing to Baldwin V connections not only with the ruling houses of France and Germany , but also with that of Constantinople ( what he had in mind has not yet been established ) . |
| 23 | He tried to say it was n't quite what he had in mind . |
| 24 | ‘ I asked him what he had in mind . |
| 25 | He drew up a very elaborate Writer 's Guide to explain what he had in mind to the authors he planned to canvass for Doctor Who . |
| 26 | This recommendation was clearly not what he had in mind at all . |
| 27 | He stood in front of her threateningly , and she wondered just what he had in mind for her . |
| 28 | She obeyed reluctantly , knowing what he had in mind . |
| 29 | Only the hull mounted cellular disrupter was flexible enough in its calibration response for what he had in mind . |
| 30 | Its suffering would be as nothing compared to what he had in mind for Bernice . |