Example sentences of "what he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that I mean what he thought the girl was worth to him . |
| 2 | Bacon , as an advocate of really long-term investment , said the concentration on tobacco was ‘ to the untimely prejudice of the main business ’ , though it is not easy to see what he thought the main business of a plantation ought to be — his essay was full of sensible advice , much of it showing signs of the influence of the Virginia experience , but he never explained why people should want to support this sort of enterprise , unless it was to be part of a programme for sending people abroad to reduce overpopulation . |
| 3 | Baldwin answered with commendable frankness : what lie wanted , what he thought the King himself wanted , was for him to go , if he had to , as quietly as possible , and thereby to make things easier for his successor . |
| 4 | ( A fine baby boy was born the day Eric arrived , and asked what he thought the child should be called he suggested ‘ Armistizio ’ . ) |
| 5 | Iain asked him what he thought the electronics were for . |
| 6 | He had , as had most strong popes , a clear idea of what he thought the past signified . |
| 7 | I thought that he lacked confidence , that for a person who had achieved what he had the composure was n't there . |
| 8 | After arriving three-quarters of an hour late for their appointment , this is what he had the nerve to suggest . |
| 9 | That 's right , that 's what he had the other day when they came in There you are , good girl er , what 's the plan of action this afternoon ? |
| 10 | what he had the other day . |
| 11 | Is what he feels the same as what we would feel were we holding him ? |
| 12 | What he labels the ‘ billiard-ball model ’ only recognizes governmental interaction . |
| 13 | And we posit an inner private object to be what the child knows and what he uses the words ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ to stand for . |
| 14 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what he estimates the public sector borrowing requirement will be for 1992-93 . |
| 15 | Although the Secretary of State questioned that figure in his evidence , he did not say what he believed the shortfall would be . |
| 16 | I gave the driver what he estimated the journey would cost . |
| 17 | Locke 's argument about property started from a simple view of what he understood the situation to be in America : the land was empty , unclaimed , and ought to become the property of the first cultivator . |
| 18 | you know what he said the first time we went into sociology I mean I feel a bit like you must of felt then |
| 19 | Perhaps even more surprising is to meet a Syrian taxi driver in Damascus describing what he heard the other day on Israel Radio . |
| 20 | But was what he saw the result of embalming ? |
| 21 | Androgyny , or what he calls the ‘ liberal supposition ’ that it is good for men and women to become more and more alike , creates in Mailer an aversion , ‘ a species of aesthetic nausea ’ ( pp. 134 — 5 ) . |
| 22 | The main element of this discussion again comes from Morgan and concerns the description of what he calls the ‘ gentile constitution ’ . |
| 23 | In a very timely book , Israel 's Fateful Decisions , published shortly before the Intifada broke out , the Israeli scholar , General Yehoshavat Harkabi , wrote that for a settlement to be possible , both sides must first renounce their respective dreams or ‘ grand designs ’ — for the Zionists , the ‘ redemption ’ of all the Land of Israel , for the Palestinians , the ‘ liberation ’ of all the territory that once was theirs — and thereby end what he calls the absolute , ‘ existential ’ nature of the struggle . |
| 24 | What he calls the ‘ fancy explanation ’ for this architectural love is that he was baptised in a Romanesque font in the Dorset village of Stoke Abbot , but the reality is that as a student at Durham he was profoundly influenced by the majestic presence of the cathedral : |
| 25 | Spence ( 1979 ) also describes what he calls the Corylus — Primula — Ranunculus ficaria community from rock ledges in Allt Volagir , S. Uist . |
| 26 | Pearse identifies the same process as the Kulak path when he shows how the incorporative drive draws out what he calls the progressive element among the peasantry ( Pearse 1975 ) . |
| 27 | He has attacked what he calls the ‘ practice in many of the country 's paediatric units to avoid performing life saving operations unless their parents insist ; |
| 28 | Eric Voegelin has emphasized the fundamental difference between what he calls the ‘ cosmological ’ civilizations , which presupposed the political symbolization of the cosmos typified by Babylonia with its epic of Marduk , and ‘ eschatological ’ civilizations such as the Hebrew — but first exemplified by the Iranian — based on the religion of Zarathustra . |
| 29 | Sir Hemann Bondi , the council 's chairman , says that it is in Britain 's interest to spend more on what he calls the ‘ ground segment ’ of remote sensing . |
| 30 | Brian Larkman has discovered what he calls the ‘ Corridor of Sanctity ’ in York , leading from the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss , through the site of a Templar chapel , the massive Clifford 's Tower , and five other medieval churches , including the Minster . |