Example sentences of "[prep] what he [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing would be quite the same after what he had just heard . |
| 2 | After what he has now said about a referendum , he had better watch out . |
| 3 | He felt tempted to continue through the village to visit the young Prince at Woodstock Palace but , considering what he had just learnt , thought he had better wait for a while . |
| 4 | His words rang in the clear air and she could feel her head swimming from the enormity of what he had just said . |
| 5 | Of course , the irony of what he had just said escaped him , but it caused Shiona to smile a bitter inner smile . |
| 6 | Got out paper and pencil to try and think through the implications of what he had just seen , then gave up and started off home . |
| 7 | When he took the ale into the warm farmhouse living room and saw everyone standing around the crackling log fire with food and drinks in their hands , he thought again of what he had just seen through the kitchen window . |
| 8 | He had been moving heaven and earth to gain what was now little more than a pittance , in the light of what he had unexpectedly inherited . |
| 9 | He crossed the road , willing himself to suppress the significance of what he had already accepted : there was no turning back . |
| 10 | Seen in this light , and in the light of what he had now told me , I studied him afresh . |
| 11 | It was like a slap in the face , the insult so unexpected , and the revelation of what he had really thought of her all along was so hurtful , so callous that she went rigid in his arms , white with stiff dignity , eyes brilliant with pain . |
| 12 | Others said that Horsley saw in Hayling the image of what he had always wanted to be — idealistic , full of derring-do , glamorous , and free from the tedious baggage of conventional business life . |
| 13 | She would teach Creggan the eagle lore she knew , and remind Kraal of what he had perhaps begun to forget . |
| 14 | ‘ Peter , ’ said Sarella when she 'd got over the shock of what he 'd just said , ‘ surely you do n't imagine we can go on with this charade any longer ? ’ |
| 15 | The shock of what he 'd just seen must have still been on his face because he just shrugged and ran . |
| 16 | None of what he found now seems novel but that is , perhaps , because the study has become a classic . |
| 17 | Moreover , he must come to terms with a new awareness of what he has previously accepted , perhaps without thinking , which under the intense microscope of social enquiry may well seem to verge on the ludicrous or to be morally indefensible . |
| 18 | So ( v ) what a person says , using the first person singular , present tense , of a psychological verb , is true or false precisely in so far as it is an expression of what he has inwardly observed . |
| 19 | Is what was said earlier — what a person says , using the first person singular , present tense , of a psychological verb , is true or false precisely in so far as it is an expression of what he has inwardly observed — true of ‘ I know ’ ? |
| 20 | What he tells you should be the distilled essence of what he has personally found . |
| 21 | Does the Minister understand that , despite what he has just said , there is still considerable apprehension that the Government will use the existence of the foundation as an excuse for not funding sport properly ? |
| 22 | A man whose idea of democracy was everyone agreeing with what he had already decided ? |
| 23 | As some girls suddenly look too tall to be ballet dancers , she became too large for her father 's devotion , for Haverford always preferred smallish women with what he had once described in one of his more personal ‘ Jottings ’ as the ‘ tip-tilted noses of impertinent page-boys ’ . |
| 24 | I had n't met Filmer 's eyes all day ; had been careful not to ; and it seemed to me that his attention had been exclusively focused upon what he had now achieved , a visiting-terms acquaintanceship with Mercer Lorrimore . |
| 25 | And , while her heart raced that there was a hint in what he 'd just said that he might be prepared to sightsee with her that afternoon , ‘ You must be parched ! ’ she apologised . |
| 26 | It offered a rare relief from what he has otherwise found to be an awkward campaign . |
| 27 | The right hon. Gentleman sounds from what he has just said as though he is a separatist . |
| 28 | That being so , B can not be trying to deceive A. The only way in which the assumption that B is cooperating can be maintained is if we take B to mean something rather different from what he has actually said . |
| 29 | Barney appeared to be mulling over what he had just learned ; several times he looked searchingly at Melissa across the table . |
| 30 | Greg was of the generation which found television very good to think during , and he let his mind range freely over what he had recently learned . |