Example sentences of "what he [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat gazing into space , his unblinking stare which had compelled Harold Macmillan to shift him in Cabinet so as to avoid what he took for continual rebuke , unbroken by the throng that pressed about him . |
| 2 | His voice dripped sarcasm , telling her plainly what he thought of that . |
| 3 | God knows what he thought of Slim Jim Baxter . |
| 4 | I then asked John whether in recent years America was producing good literature , and what he thought of popular authors such as James Michener . |
| 5 | This is even true , contra Kolve , of what he says for most of his prologue . |
| 6 | So what he says about external objects may be false in spite of being founded on observation . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point and I have considerable sympathy with what he says about that . |
| 8 | So I 'm not looking for a response to what he says at this stage . |
| 9 | If the speaker is observing the maxims in a fairly direct way , he may nevertheless rely on the addressee to amplify what he says by some straightforward inferences based on the assumption that the speaker is following the maxims . |
| 10 | Indeed it is difficult to imagine such a state of affairs , but in fact Marx , especially in Formen makes it quite clear that this is not what he meant at all ; it is only under the influence of Morgan in The Origin that Engels might possible by construed to have implied something so unlikely . |
| 11 | She still did n't understand what he meant by all that , no matter how much he explained . |
| 12 | Carmen Ballesteros , for one , would probably love to know exactly what he meant by that . |
| 13 | She wondered what he meant by that last remark about his brother , so quickly bitten off , but she knew better than to ask . |
| 14 | He did n't know himself what he meant by that … |
| 15 | He explained to them what he meant by that , about how he 'd run into Mr Plant in the small hours , wearing only a shirt . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you know what he meant by that ? ’ |
| 17 | Bush said this will be no Vietnam and he well understood and everybody else well understood what he meant by that . |
| 18 | ‘ When you were n't here at nine , I thought maybe you would n't be coming in again , ’ Jimmy remarked , and , before she could ask him what he meant by that , ‘ I like your hair that way , Leith , ’ he opined . |
| 19 | It seemed to me that this would be an interesting and upbeat note on which to finish our current serious on the theme of disasters , so I asked him what he meant by human betterment . |
| 20 | Endill did not know what he meant by this and ran after him for an explanation . |
| 21 | I asked what he meant by this . |
| 22 | He then proceeded to elaborate what he meant by this consumption , for example , that cotton is turned into fabric , so new cotton must be grown ; fabric is worn out , so that new fabric must be woven , etc . |
| 23 | Bultmann too was happy to describe theology as ‘ faith seeking understanding ’ ; but what he meant by this was faith 's self -understanding , an understanding having to do with self-awareness and self-knowledge , subjective rather than objective . |
| 24 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's all right , then , ’ she answered weakly , not daring to ask what he meant by this last cryptic announcement . |
| 26 | Robert could not think what he meant by this . |
| 27 | Charles wanted the farmers to talk frankly to him so he could learn about their lives and problems , and put what he learnt to good effect . |
| 28 | However , Sartre was no more prepared than Merleau-ponty to return to what he characterized as Marxist organicism , in which the laws of history unfold according to their own autonomous momentum . |
| 29 | Billy Sullivan was very polite and proper , if a blasphemer , but he had used the wicked words with passion , unable to express just what he felt in any other way . |
| 30 | I think you ‘ ll agree that his right as to what he does with that money supersedes any thoughts I may have , in the final analysis . |