Example sentences of "[pers pn] what he [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raleigh replies when the Queen asks him what he thinks of the dispute between Essex and Mountjoy , and the last line is set with a homely finality which reminds us that , by the end of Gloriana 's reign , Raleigh is no longer a young man , and that the historic Raleigh had a taste for literary homily , as in his poem The Lie " . |
| 2 | When Edwin Chadwick , the great English public health expert , was visiting Paris , he met the Emperor who asked him what he thought of the improvements in Paris , to which he replied : ‘ Sir , it was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble . |
| 3 | Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) . |
| 4 | Last year the award was won by Ernie Acker at Charlbury station , and we asked him what he thought of the awards . |
| 5 | In 1974 , he decided that none of the developmental systems being studied really gave him what he needed for a study of development . |
| 6 | Why had n't he told me what he thought at the time ? |
| 7 | ‘ At least , Punch did to me what he does to the horses in the spring . |
| 8 | So he 's gon na ask them what he does about the vibrating . |
| 9 | The manager will tell us what he expects before the game and we will feel his eyes burning into us if we do n't do the business . ’ |
| 10 | The manager will tell us what he expects before the game . ’ |
| 11 | When my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook was Home Secretary , he used to draft for us what he described as a crime clock . |