Example sentences of "what he [verb] a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Threarah 's rather good at making himself unpleasant when he 's been woken up at ni-Frith for what he considers a piece of trivial nonsense . |
| 5 | Hobbes conceived of what he called a state of nature . |
| 6 | My bank manager wanted me to take out what he called a consolidation loan to keep up my mortgage repayments , which meant borrowing something like £6,000 . |
| 7 | His mind for a long time before this crisis arose had been turning to the idea of a new party orientation and government by what he called a Council of State … |
| 8 | President Reagan himself led the conservative assault yesterday on what he called a return to ‘ failed liberal policies of the past ’ . |
| 9 | Vincent would soon see the struggle to turn himself into what he called a Peasant painter as his prime aim . |
| 10 | Mr. Lester presented us with what he termed a menu of choices in case we should be against his submission that the right to sue in malicious falsehood was a sufficient protection for the reputation of a corporate public authority . |
| 11 | Kennedy saw it in what he termed a policy of ‘ constructive repression ’ — which upon examination turns out to consist mainly in restoring the autonomy of the local official , who will be set free from bureaucratic control to go once again among the people , exercising ‘ sympathy ( in its true and not its debauched sense ) ’ , conducting his business in the vernacular , abandoning that ‘ cold aloofness ’ which is ‘ a vice in a ruler ’ , and seeing that the Crown 's Indian subjects are well-governed , harmless , and content . |
| 12 | ‘ He was a sort of out-front version of me and I identified with what he did a lot . |
| 13 | What he do a smile that backed |
| 14 | Castro had earlier made indirect gibes at what he considered a retreat from socialism by elements in the Soviet Union and growing anti-communism in the crumbling Eastern bloc . |
| 15 | When he had gone , Arty , smiling to himself at what he considered a victory , got out of bed and set off for the bathroom to wash his hair . |
| 16 | And not least among his endowments is the command of a prose style which makes what he writes a pleasure to read . |