Example sentences of "what [verb] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would just do it if it was right and that , in the end , was what got him into trouble . ’ |
| 2 | It went on and on and that was what solidified him in America . |
| 3 | This last characteristic is of central importance : this , above all else , is what associates him with the earlier philhellenes and their quest for wholeness , and sets him against his own scholarly profession . |
| 4 | What has he to be sure of now in that quarter ? |
| 5 | ‘ If he 's allowed to go , what has he in mind ? |
| 6 | We have his word that he is not gay , so we will never know what drew him to Hampstead Heath after dark ; nor why he wears a wedding ring when he is unmarried . |
| 7 | Before he had fully conceived the idea of The Four Quartets , he had remarked that what drew him to Beethoven was that in these last works the composer did what he himself had sought to do in poetry — and may have actually done in ‘ forty or fifty lines ’ — namely to ‘ get beyond ’ that art . |
| 8 | It could well have been the jealousy of the older brother , what caused him to be thought of as a black sheep . |
| 9 | But what attracted him above all else to the magazine illustrators was their subject matter . |
| 10 | What attracted him to Mandy — something he refers to again and again — is her vulnerability , her sweetness , her child-like innocence . |
| 11 | I mean , what attracted him to ? |
| 12 | If it is then asked what drove him to this desperate end , Zande will refer you to the particular tensions and stresses of his life . |
| 13 | and the rest of his life in France and England , although I 'm not sure whether what drove him from Ireland was like that which drove his subjects from Ireland — no doubt we shall see . |
| 14 | What hampered him in practice was lack of manpower . |
| 15 | I think that 's what turned him off club management — he knew what his interests were and decided he could walk away from the hassle . |
| 16 | We look at the individual to discern the imprint of society : it is what he shares with his associates , not what distinguishes him from them , that directly interests us . |
| 17 | Everything that is most important about Camus , though , lies less in what identifies him with these names , these ideas , than in what distinguishes him from them — and that is the experience of growing up in ‘ poverty and sunlight ’ in Algiers . |
| 18 | After high school in Greece , to which the family returned when Mendoros was in his teens , he looked round for the best place to pursue his obsession — which is what brought him to Perth . |
| 19 | That 's what brought him to the Sleek Physique club in Didcot at the weekend — together with a legion of fans . |
| 20 | But what undermined him in office , and made him worth hearing out of it , was his surprise at becoming Prime Minister in the first place — Rab Butler shared that — so that , he agreed , he never quite suppressed a sense of the absurdity of his position . |
| 21 | What prompts him to this unexpected adjective is that ( as Bunting stressed ) the poems these men admired were not ‘ simplified to aim at the poor ’ , but ‘ written for a hard intellectual audience ’ . |
| 22 | Perhaps that was what baffled him about her . |
| 23 | Everything that is most important about Camus , though , lies less in what identifies him with these names , these ideas , than in what distinguishes him from them — and that is the experience of growing up in ‘ poverty and sunlight ’ in Algiers . |
| 24 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 25 | What inspires him at the moment is the once-in-a-lifetime trip to the US that he has organised for 40 Lebanese orphans . |
| 26 | Too hungry and cold to care what awaited him inside Jamie staggered forward and into the man 's arms . |
| 27 | What strikes him of a sudden , as he remembers this experience , is how it had been foreseen and marmoreally recorded by Virgil : as Virgil 's Aeneas left doomed Troy , carrying his household and ancestral gods , so Pound leaves the doomed Rome of fascist Italy , carrying in his haversack his gods — books by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and T. E. Hulme and Percy Wyndham Lewis . |
| 28 | But what irritated him above all was the jumble of loose ends he would be obliged to leave behind , just at the moment when he was beginning to see how to unravel them . |
| 29 | None the less , his fall from favour and loss of revenue farms and offices under the restored Commonwealth of 1659 may have been what stood him in best stead in the following year , rather than secret payments to the Royalist cause before May 1660 , for which there is no evidence beyond inference . |