Example sentences of "he [verb] what [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We want him to see what the reality is , compared with the tabloid myth , ’ said a party organiser . |
| 2 | She could feel the anger surging inside her and she fought it down , not wanting him to know what a fool she felt for not having been made aware of that fact . |
| 3 | But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like . |
| 4 | It is the experience of similar events which enables him to judge what the purpose of an utterance might be . |
| 5 | I asked him to describe what the atmosphere in the dressing room is like with the rest of the team . |
| 6 | Your worships , those are the circumstances I would ask you to bear in mind that this man a ha , has four summonses against him purely as a result of really ignorance as far as purchasing documents is concerned they were in order and erm he would of produced them had he realised what the officer was saying to him and er , that he would of realised had he not been suffering the shock , but he was actually sufferance suffering at the er at the time of the accident . |
| 7 | This he did , and when he had learned to ride it he realized what a radical improvement it would be if he could propel it without putting his feet on the ground . |
| 8 | I feel that he is really saying not that he sees the cleverness and the artistic quality of the painting or the message in the paintings as might first be assumed , but that he understands what the church is doing , instead of helping the poor , it was showing the pictures to educate them about God . |
| 9 | ‘ 1 mean , how could he know what a woman 's prerogative is ? ’ |
| 10 | Does he know what a Hoover 's for ? |
| 11 | I mean he grasped what the word , he grasped the way she taught him and he soon learnt to read and he could retain those words |
| 12 | And so , Simon he he wants what the apostles have got . |
| 13 | How often had he said what a helpmeet she would be , if only Alfred Wittisham were not there . |
| 14 | Though deeply Anglo-Catholic he rejected what the world thought of as Anglo-Catholic fuss , a mistaking of the right vestment for the right religion . |
| 15 | I suspect that he is doing so because he believed what the Home Secretary said when he intervened . |
| 16 | How could he understand what an agony the evening must be for her . |
| 17 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
| 18 | But his concentration was poor these days : he could hardly keep his mind on anything for more than a moment … and even when he heard what the Padre said it made no sense … " the Editor of The Times as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 19 | ’ — but when he heard what the fees would be if he stayed he decided that he was hanged if he was going to spend all that money on being upset . |
| 20 | Llewelyn was close in his chamber with his chaplain-secretary and Ednyfed Fychan over the dictation of letters , and his seal was already on the credentials of the envoys who were to represent him in Shrewsbury ; but David , when he heard what the messenger had to report , on his own authority brought him in to the conference and shattered it . |
| 21 | By nature , he was a gentle , sensitive man , and even in the throes of angry threats against whites it was hard to hide a smile , for he loved what the blacks call ‘ selling wolf tickets ’ , tricking people into fear . |
| 22 | He loved what the humanists did in reviving the Ancients , and hated the ferocity of their adversarial style : ‘ If their manners were often like those of giants , so were their labours ’ . |
| 23 | In his extraordinary account of his relationship with Mandy Smith he mentions what a wonderful and ‘ giving ’ lover he has always been . |
| 24 | Over the next few months Endill began to hate his schoolwork more and more ; not because it was difficult and boring but because he thought what the teachers taught him was of no use . |
| 25 | He understood it a little better when he saw what a state the survivors were in . |
| 26 | Also , and simultaneously , he saw what no one had yet seen , what was his to see . |
| 27 | He wondered whether he dared ring Victoria or Emma , but when he saw what the time was , he knew he could not . |
| 28 | the chap that I sent he thought he knew what a confined space was . |
| 29 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 30 | He wished he knew what the time was . |