Example sentences of "what he [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What he does do really well is to suddenly come out with something brilliantly surreal . |
| 2 | What he does do , though , is present these foes as mysterious and indefinably threatening in a haunting manner : ‘ For though they bodies seeme , yet substance from them fades ’ ( II , IX , 15 ) . |
| 3 | Antony says hypocritically that he does n't want to cause a riot , which is just what he does do , and he leaves the plebeians in a destructive state of min , who are out to kill and destroy everything . |
| 4 | But what he does mean by it can not be identified , at least in any simple way , with the actual beliefs or attitudes which caused it . |
| 5 | What he does recall is the years he spent as a violent drunk , his frequent periods in Saughton prison and life in hostels for the single homeless . |
| 6 | What he does see is a crippled lama living in extreme simplicity and frugality in a mountain hermitage , whose being is irradiated with a joy which has an even keener edge because his infirmities offer him no possibility of escape . |
| 7 | But what he does get is the satisfaction of working alongside regular officers in the knowledge that his contribution is a genuine benefit to the work being done in Darlington . |
| 8 | What he does describe well are the two faces of excellence as they have characterised JPL . |
| 9 | What he does have , though , is a fearsome grip on the band which looks to me like a dictatorship and which he maintains is just the way things have worked out . |
| 10 | What he does have is all packed away inside his leotard — destined to be cult items . |
| 11 | So , to get the comparisons over with , and leaving musical considerations aside , what he does have in common with Rattle is charm . |
| 12 | What he does seem to mind — and what even the most arbitrary-seeming , the most ludic , of his ironic and erotic diversions and excursions show that he minds — is the regime that came to power in his native country after the revolution of 1948 . |
| 13 | What he does know is that at least some of the whales seem to have started making Puget Sound their regular summer feeding ground . |
| 14 | I tell you what he does need , see a doctor |
| 15 | What he did decide , and June did not try to dissuade him , was that he would not go back to school . |
| 16 | I do n't think he introduced any really new ideas , and what he did suggest has n't lasted , but still , in its way , it was effective . |
| 17 | Stansill was not one of the extroverts of the underground , but what he did bring was method , in an environment with hardly any , and a philosophical view about the alternative which the underground could offer . |
| 18 | He paused , seemingly at a loss to say what he did mean . |
| 19 | Not only , said Nicky , was this proof positive of the Englishness — indeed the Lancashireness — of Griffiths 's voice , but Griffiths had also said that if cornered in future he would shoot his way out rather than submit to arrest — exactly what he did do . |
| 20 | But what he did do was to embroider , I fantasise . |
| 21 | Part of me feels sorry for him , despite what he tried to do , what he did do . |
| 22 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 23 | What he did wish was to emasculate his opponents , and then to pretend they were coming together as equals . |
| 24 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 25 | But what he did come to recognise was the inadequacy of existing literature : ‘ I realised that the main writers on history and statistics at the time had done very little research and were relying on a few books . |
| 26 | What he did find , to his surprise , was that some of the doubles moved in a way which indicated that they were in orbit round the ‘ balancing point ’ or common centre of gravity of the system . |
| 27 | What he did say was that Rabbit has no intention of setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries in any country , because of its commitment now to its previously neglected distribution partners . |
| 28 | Well what he did say was do n't you know do n't go over the top in criticizing that because |
| 29 | What he did say to the working class is this that the emancipation of working class must be the work of the working class itself . |
| 30 | Yeah but what he did take my Walkman for though ? |