Example sentences of "he [vb past] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I suspect that he is doing so because he believed what the Home Secretary said when he intervened . |
| 4 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
| 5 | 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 ! " |
| 6 | ’ — 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He wondered whether he dared ring Victoria or Emma , but when he saw what the time was , he knew he could not . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He wished he knew what the time was . |
| 14 | Suddenly , without trying , he knew what the real Harriet Shakespeare would say . |
| 15 | The battles in Russia , Africa and Normandy became mere words , to be heard punctually from the loudspeaker at three or four o'clock , from the English news-reader if German security was sufficiently relaxed , or from anybody who thought he knew what the next allotment of words was going to be about . |
| 16 | He knew what the expression would be . |
| 17 | He knew what the boys were fighting for , and was sure that the public would give a right judgement when the proper time came . |
| 18 | Ackroyd knew immediately where he meant and his blood ran cold as he knew what the foreman was going to say next . |
| 19 | He knew what the answer to that would be . |
| 20 | She stared at him and he knew what the answer was going to be . |
| 21 | he knew what the odds were and everyone else did n't . |
| 22 | Donleavy posed these questions as if , like Coleman , he knew what the answers were already . |
| 23 | He knew what the girl was when he hired her , the bald-faced hypocrite ! |
| 24 | He knew what the losses might be . |
| 25 | He feared what the results might have been from the local elections and he 's , he 's an example in fact of a prime minister who went into the elections trailing in the opinion polls . |
| 26 | This , to his great astonishment , caused a considerable disturbance ; and when he inquired what the people meant by putting themselves out over a black man , an Englishman who was passing answered : ‘ Well , perhaps you do n't know it , but you have just thrown one of Her Majesty 's judges out of the train . ’ ’ |
| 27 | He did what the established artist ordered , and felt the ignominy of it , of what his instruction had turned into — a succession of orders . |
| 28 | He was n't sure if he liked what the Headmaster had in store for the Bookman and they had started arguing about it . |
| 29 | One can imagine a university student writing two letters — one to his parents and the other to his best friend — in which he said what the rag dance last Saturday had been like . |
| 30 | And he said what the heck will I do now when my savings is gone ? |