Example sentences of "what he [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years later , he described to friends in Stuttgart , with whom he was sharing a house , what he thought a kitchen should look like . |
| 2 | Iain asked him what he thought the electronics were for . |
| 3 | He had , as had most strong popes , a clear idea of what he thought the past signified . |
| 4 | ( A fine baby boy was born the day Eric arrived , and asked what he thought the child should be called he suggested ‘ Armistizio ’ . ) |
| 5 | Baldwin answered with commendable frankness : what lie wanted , what he thought the King himself wanted , was for him to go , if he had to , as quietly as possible , and thereby to make things easier for his successor . |
| 6 | By that I mean what he thought the girl was worth to him . |
| 7 | What he was actually talking about was the application of the lex Iulia et Papia ; and what he meant no doubt was that , for the purposes of those statutes , the rules expressed for legacies apply to trusts and gifts upon death too . |
| 8 | However , Æthelweard , who was of the finest English stock , and may well have been the man of that name executed by Cnut in 1017 ( see above ) , dissembled by undertaking what he had no intention of performing , and the Chronicle records the ætheling 's eventual banishment in 1017 . |
| 9 | The son had no right to complain for the father might make what distribution of his property he liked ; and the son 's abstaining from doing what he had no right to do can be no consideration . |
| 10 | I thought that he lacked confidence , that for a person who had achieved what he had the composure was n't there . |
| 11 | After arriving three-quarters of an hour late for their appointment , this is what he had the nerve to suggest . |
| 12 | And we posit an inner private object to be what the child knows and what he uses the words ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ to stand for . |
| 13 | Although the Secretary of State questioned that figure in his evidence , he did not say what he believed the shortfall would be . |
| 14 | what he does every night to the Princess of Wales . |
| 15 | Because that 's all he 's got , his knowledge that we 're happy ; it 's got to make up for hating what he does every day to keep us safe . |
| 16 | I gave the driver what he estimated the journey would cost . |
| 17 | Locke 's argument about property started from a simple view of what he understood the situation to be in America : the land was empty , unclaimed , and ought to become the property of the first cultivator . |
| 18 | Stand over there and see what he saw every day . ’ |
| 19 | But was what he saw the result of embalming ? |
| 20 | this is how much tax I 've paid , this is , I mean if you go on the dole too unless you 've made a note of it there is no record of how much you 've been paid on the dole , they , they give John the what he calls a giro , takes it to the bank and cashes it and there is no , no record of and when he 's been on the dole . |
| 21 | He does n't really want it for anything , but he is n't keen on having what he calls a flock of children on his land . |
| 22 | Although he is supportive of the general trend of de-hospitalising labour wards in the NHS , he dislikes what he calls the evangelism of the active birth movement . |
| 23 | Spence ( 1979 ) also describes what he calls the Corylus — Primula — Ranunculus ficaria community from rock ledges in Allt Volagir , S. Uist . |
| 24 | An example of Wimsatt 's ( 1958 : 147 — 8 ) is what he calls the metaphor , and many would call the simile , in the last line of this passage from Donne 's ‘ A Valediction : forbidding mourning ’ ( like Eliot , the New Critics were particularly attached to the Metaphysical poets ) : The comparison between the lovers ' separation and the hammering of gold into leaf-form brings together two terms which are clearly quite different and therefore might justifiably be described as opposites ; and the conjunction of meanings thus established creates a series of connections ( the relationship between the separated lovers is like gold leaf in that it is ethereal ( ‘ ayery ’ ) , delicate , easily damaged , but at the same time precious , pure , bright , etc. ) , which when related to real experience possesses considerable illuminating force . |
| 25 | Mike Brogden wants to see quality principles extended to what he calls the software side of the business . |
| 26 | In a huge variety of ways and from a multitude of different per-spectives Derrida shows that nothing escapes différance , that there are no inviolate entities , that everything becomes part of what he calls the play of differences . |
| 27 | WITH a nod towards what he calls the column 's ‘ unorthodox allegiance ’ , Tom Lynn has sent the front cover of The Gooner , the Arsenal fanzine . |
| 28 | Woods ( 82 ) argues that admissible algorithms ( i.e. algorithms which give this guarantee ) , or near-admissible ones which relax the constraints in a principled way , are to be preferred over what he calls the ad-hoc , arbitrary strategies used by Hearsay-II . |
| 29 | An MP who 's at risk of losing much of his personal fortune in the Lloyds insurance scandal is calling for legal action to stop what he calls the swindling , fraud and insider dealing in the insurance market . |
| 30 | Northam ( 1988 ) points out how the Metropolitan police have responded with ‘ considerable imagination ’ to the apathy and cynicism of lower ranks by putting them through courses designed to combat sexism , racism and what he calls the John Wayne machismo ‘ canteen culture ’ . |