Example sentences of "[prep] what he [verb] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Her entire knowledge of what he had to do to earn his crust amounted to not a row of beans . |
2 | ‘ That will remind us of what he 's had to say , and I think he may just find it acts as a spur to show him what we can do . |
3 | The three children had gone to bed and Rose was waiting by the fire by the time he was satisfied enough with what he had written to seal the envelope . |
4 | She knew that Hugh had been wrong in what he had tried to do , but she also knew that no real intimacy had taken place . |
5 | By the time Terence O'Neill returned from London to face press questioning on what he intended to do to quell the violence , there was a general notion abroad that it was the Paisleyites who had been violent . |
6 | He still felt sullied by what he 'd had to do — to crawl to someone like Bernard Walton . |