Example sentences of "what he [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bacon , as an advocate of really long-term investment , said the concentration on tobacco was ‘ to the untimely prejudice of the main business ’ , though it is not easy to see what he thought the main business of a plantation ought to be — his essay was full of sensible advice , much of it showing signs of the influence of the Virginia experience , but he never explained why people should want to support this sort of enterprise , unless it was to be part of a programme for sending people abroad to reduce overpopulation . |
| 2 | That 's right , that 's what he had the other day when they came in There you are , good girl er , what 's the plan of action this afternoon ? |
| 3 | what he had the other day . |
| 4 | Is what he feels the same as what we would feel were we holding him ? |
| 5 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what he estimates the public sector borrowing requirement will be for 1992-93 . |
| 6 | you know what he said the first time we went into sociology I mean I feel a bit like you must of felt then |
| 7 | Perhaps even more surprising is to meet a Syrian taxi driver in Damascus describing what he heard the other day on Israel Radio . |
| 8 | Bourdieu 's work on the new middle classes ( what he calls the new petit bourgeoisie ) and Goldthorpe et al. 's study of the service class 's social mobility provide us with some clues . |
| 9 | Moore says that those who try to identify good with some complex property are committing what he calls the naturalistic fallacy . |
| 10 | Pearse identifies the same process as the Kulak path when he shows how the incorporative drive draws out what he calls the progressive element among the peasantry ( Pearse 1975 ) . |
| 11 | Melossi ( 1985 ) discusses how social discourses change with the various stages of what he calls the political business cycle . |
| 12 | And in his book , er , The Age of the Crowd , Moscavisi refers to what he calls the black books of Dr Freud . |
| 13 | In a very timely book , Israel 's Fateful Decisions , published shortly before the Intifada broke out , the Israeli scholar , General Yehoshavat Harkabi , wrote that for a settlement to be possible , both sides must first renounce their respective dreams or ‘ grand designs ’ — for the Zionists , the ‘ redemption ’ of all the Land of Israel , for the Palestinians , the ‘ liberation ’ of all the territory that once was theirs — and thereby end what he calls the absolute , ‘ existential ’ nature of the struggle . |
| 14 | We conclude by noting that Young ( 1987 ) , in a paper which attacks the one-sided partiality of much criminological theory , is rightly critical of what he calls the adversarial positivism which characterises the debate over unemployment and crime . |
| 15 | This is the context of Foucault 's critique of what he calls the sovereign model of power , of the idea that power has a single source in a master , king , or class — and can thus easily be reversed . |
| 16 | Barthes 's commentary represents what he calls the step-by-step approach which affirms the text 's plurality by the attempt to ‘ star [ étoiler ] the text instead of assembling it ’ ( p. 13 ) , to fragment and disperse it , instead of unifying it . |
| 17 | and you , it was alright , and guess what he stacked the first day he was there ? |
| 18 | As some of Mr. Gould 's descriptions appeared to me brief , I have enlarged them , but have always endeavoured to retain his specific character ; so that , by this means , I trust I shall not throw any obscurity on what he considers the essential character in each case ; but at the same time , I hope , that these additional remarks may render the work more complete . |
| 19 | But Cureton then groups clitic phrases into what he considers the intonational structure to be . |
| 20 | SDLP councillor Dr Joe Hendron condemned the hypocrisy of Sinn Fein and what he called the depraved bombing of a hospital , ‘ attacking the most vulnerable ’ . |
| 21 | He also scrapped what he called the complex existing arrangements for taxing employees ' private use of company vans , introducing a simple scale charge of £500 covering both the van and any fuel provided . |
| 22 | With his tie awry , an alert pair of eyes sparkling behind gold-rimmed spectacles , he impressed the party by coming to the point rather than indulging in what he called the prefabricated speeches he had always hated . |
| 23 | He denounced what he called the appalling upsurge of ‘ vicious loyalist violence ’ , in which four people were murdered in five days . |
| 24 | Mr MacKay compared family income in Wales , not counting state benefits , with that in what he called the Inner Region Core South East England , East Anglia , the East Midlands and the South West . |
| 25 | Cos Jung had this idea that the whole the whole of life was a journey towards the discovery of what he called the real self . |
| 26 | Two thousand years ago , the biblical farmer was tormented by tares and Virgil was denouncing what he called the lazy thistle . |
| 27 | He dubbed them cheats , and told them they were swindling their audiences out of what he called the last great procession , when , after the wedding songs had been sung and the dances danced , the characters took their melancholy way off into darkness , following each other into oblivion . |
| 28 | He blamed what he called the painful kick-back of recent economic problems for the latest spate of job losses . |
| 29 | Whereas , in what he called the short Parliament of 1974 , no especially controversial measures could be introduced , the majority in the election later that year emboldened the government to take certain steps of a strongly political character , likely to arouse fierce opposition . |
| 30 | In a speech to the society 's annual general meeting on Friday , Mr Adair urged the Government to end what he called the piecemeal tinkering with the legal system . |