Example sentences of "he [verb] what [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he asked what this meant , he was convinced that he was to get up and go and join the church planting team . |
| 2 | He unpacked what little he needed and changed his shirt , then reopened the envelope from the Blumenthalstrasse . |
| 3 | Frequently , moreover , there appears to be little concern that advice should be available to the teacher or headmaster , to ensure that he uses what few resources he has to best effect . |
| 4 | How many such stories lie hidden from us we can not tell ; but we can be sure that he reflects many of the aspirations of his day : as a merchant on land and sea , in the Baltic , the North Sea and the Mediterranean ; as a pilgrim to the shrines of England and Scotland , to Saint-Gilles , to St Peter and to Jerusalem , he accomplished what many others were doing , and far more aspired to . |
| 5 | He turned what little they had discovered over and over in his mind . |
| 6 | He reveals what all this is about . |
| 7 | Mr Browning , with an expression on his face that said he guessed what this was about and it did not please him , nodded . |
| 8 | Henry knew all the houses — the double-fronted mansion with the Mercedes in the driveway , the row of early Victorian workmen 's cottages , fastidiously restored , the occasional bungalow or mock Gothic affair with turrets — he knew what each one was worth , and he followed their fortunes , decay , repair , sale , in the way a countryman might watch the seasons . |
| 9 | The young Michael found Emmanuel church austere , and later , when he knew what that meant , puritan . |
| 10 | He knew what that change would entail , and he was n't sure she could handle it . |
| 11 | And he thought he knew what that meant . ’ |
| 12 | And now he knew what this was all about . |
| 13 | John works with English hardwoods so he knew what those bulges might mean . |
| 14 | He knew what those pacifists were : they were partly , if not absolutely , pro-German . |
| 15 | Of course he knew what those reasons were but he had never faced them . |
| 16 | He knew what those two victims must have felt when tossed into the heat sink . |
| 17 | He asks what each legislator might do , in the position he happens to occupy , to reduce the total number of incidents of injustice or unfairness according to his own views of what justice and fairness require . |
| 18 | He did what little packing of his own he had to do , then ordered up a small supper : a club sandwich , ice-cream , bourbon and coffee . |
| 19 | He did what any timorous man in a panic would do , ran away and hid himself within the community , where he was known and respected , and no one would ever guess he had attempted such a deed . ’ |
| 20 | When their father died , he did what any good parent would do and left them his property . |
| 21 | He explains what this means in practice as follows ( 1968 : 602–3 ) : This assertion , in another conference paper ( of 1960 ) entitled ‘ Poetry of grammar and grammar of poetry ’ , was subsequently corroborated by a series of studies of individual poems in six different European languages , ranging in date from the thirteenth to the twentieth century . |
| 22 | He wrote what many believe to be the greatest novel ever written . |
| 23 | Moreover , he overcame what many saw as his main problem — his Roman Catholicism — by meeting it head on . |
| 24 | And anyway , I am of Callanish and though Creggan here does not yet know much of the site of Creggan yet he knows what that means . ’ |
| 25 | He knows what that means . |
| 26 | But in answer to Dickie.Bamber Gascoigne said he could n't comment until he knows what any company wanting the programme back on board might be proposing . |
| 27 | But in answer to Dickie.Bamber Gascoigne said he could n't comment until he knows what any company wanting the programme back on board might be proposing . |
| 28 | Everyone is confident he knows what this means . |