Example sentences of "what he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A man who puts 'is stock first is acting for what 'e thinks is t'best , ’ he snapped . |
| 2 | What he ignores is that the poor in eighteenth century England sometimes spoke for themselves . |
| 3 | What he perceived were human characteristics , above all the truth of the heart . |
| 4 | The chaplain , keen to make amends for what he perceived was an intrusion , took the flustered course of staying on and saying more . |
| 5 | What he perceived was rather the state of the doctor and he inferred from this that a change must have taken place at some time before that moment . |
| 6 | But they did not maintain an image ; or at least , not until an outsider pressed them , assembled one from what he thought were the parts , tried it out on them and modified it to accommodate their comments and additional information . |
| 7 | This critic concluded his review by pointing out to his readers what he thought were the real merits of the film for he had thought of it as being ‘ neither capitalistic nor laboristic , but a straight-away drama ’ not at all ‘ depending on any propaganda to arouse the spectator 's interest ’ . |
| 8 | Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp . |
| 9 | Meanwhile Norman Stone 's confident his reputation wo n't be dented like that of Lord Dacre , the Oxford historian who helped the Sunday Times serialise what he thought were the Hitler diaries but soon turned out to be a hoax . |
| 10 | He was in a field , and picked out what he thought was a wood , to which he headed and placed his unwanted gear in a ditch , covering it with tufts or grass . |
| 11 | Then he said he had been checked into what he thought was an hotel for the blood test , and was given an injection . |
| 12 | Then he said he had been checked into what he thought was an hotel for the blood test , and was given an injection . |
| 13 | Once past the chalets Gazzer took what he thought was a short cut through the dunes . |
| 14 | Heading for what he thought was the way they had come , he was immediately confused . |
| 15 | He put the chemical in what he thought was the storage tank but was n't . |
| 16 | Endill did not hear anything at first but after a minute or two heard what he thought was a cough in the distance . |
| 17 | At 11.00 he found what he thought was the relevant passage in Vico . |
| 18 | He narrowly missed what he thought was a lamp post but turned out to be a tree , and reached for where the handle was usually to be found on a front door . |
| 19 | He was so forceful and dogmatic in his ideas that the Girls would be embarrassed at band calls when he interrupted acts , totally unknown to him , to tell them what he thought was wrong . |
| 20 | This hangar was all closed up apart from one door , so he drove in in the semi-dark and reversed rapidly into what he thought was an empty corner without checking it first for parked vehicles . |
| 21 | Her Great-Uncle Isaac , who lived at Low Birk Hatt , used to keep geese and one night just as the light had faded my dad shot what he thought was a duck flying off Hury Reservoir . |
| 22 | He began to run in what he thought was the right direction , but he did n't recognise any of the buildings . |
| 23 | Jobless Peter Urben , 43 , clambered on to the roof of what he thought was the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop next door . |
| 24 | What he thought was mud was obviously explosive . ’ |
| 25 | I introduced Rickie to McIllvanney who screwed his face into what he thought was a pleasant smile then , after exchanging an inanity or two , fled to his office . |
| 26 | ‘ He was a harmless sort of youth really , just trying to do what he thought was right . |
| 27 | A BURGLAR broke his ankles when he leapt out of what he thought was a first-floor window at Bristol — and fell four storeys . |
| 28 | A BURGLAR broke his ankles when he leapt out of what he thought was a first-floor window at Bristol — and fell four storeys . |
| 29 | He had said what he thought was the decent thing to say , and had it chucked back at him . |
| 30 | Hipper , by now apprehensive , turned away , first to the southeast , then to the southwest , in order to avoid what he thought was the vanguard of Admiral Jellicoe 's battle squadrons . |