Example sentences of "[conj] what he [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I think that at the end of his life he thought that what he knew was lost for ever . |
| 2 | I tell you this : if anyone says to this mountain , ‘ Be lifted from your place and hurled into the sea , ’ and has no inward doubts , but believes that what he says is happening , it will be done for him ’ ( Mark 11:23 ) . |
| 3 | While Zen waited for his driver to arrive , his hosts tried politely to find out who he was and what he 'd been doing , but he remained deliberately vague . |
| 4 | Here , however , all similarity between the piece Lucien was familiar with and what he saw being performed before him ended . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire , South-West was right about car security and what he said was reflected in the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden , who urged us to do more about car security . |
| 6 | It was a tale that could be believed , but what he wanted was to have a reason to be somewhere else , not to be here when the shepherd came . |
| 7 | She imagined he was going to make a move towards her , but what he did was to hitch the child closer to him until his face was almost pressed against his own and then he smiled a smile that widened his full lips but , as she had seen before , did not separate his teeth . |
| 8 | But what he did was to go outside broadcasting for two out of his three senior editorial jobs , the first main appointments . |
| 9 | Harry could not move , could not speak , could not judge for this suspended moment whether what he saw was recollected or imagined . |