Example sentences of "[pron] of what he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tavett had been shaky but in the end unmoved : he added nothing and changed nothing of what he had said on Saturday . |
| 2 | At the end of his life he included a lengthy summary of the book in the equally , if not more , notorious Moses and Monotheism and retracted nothing of what he had said originally . |
| 3 | She and her detective rushed over to the photographer and she pleaded with him to hand over his film , and tell nothing of what he had seen . |
| 4 | He had stared at the bottle in his hand , walked outside , smashed it against the outhouse wall , watched the liquor run down , dark against the brickwork , and returned to the house , almost reeled past Matey as though he had drunk all of it , and mounted the stairs to her room to remind himself of what he had lost , hurt though it might . |
| 5 | In the opinion of a senior civil servant of the day , Butler ‘ had a genuine desire for prison reform without any very clear concept himself of what he wanted to achieve ’ . |
| 6 | Each time that Joyce looked in his shaving-mirror and whenever he caught the reflection of his face , the livid and disfiguring streak reminded him of what he had become . |
| 7 | Drowning the typewriter reminded him of what he had done to the remains of Ivor Newley . |
| 8 | It would be unwise , therefore , to say anything to him of what he had learned about Ipuky 's sons from his first marriage , or about the other visitor to the City of Dreams . |
| 9 | But it reminded him of what he wanted to say . |
| 10 | It is only through the work of Christ , through the impact on us of what he has done , that we can recognise him as divine and describe his person in divine terms . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |