Example sentences of "be what he [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what he got from the post , I bet he bought two of them . |
| 2 | That 's what he means by the black books of Freud . |
| 3 | With England ‘ B ’ , his brief was to bring on young players and to keep fringe members of the England squad ticking over , rather than to aim to win every gage , and that 's what he did with the result that a whole crop of younger Englishmen — Back , Moon and Rodber , to name but three — are ready to make the transition to the full England team . |
| 4 | This is what he said in the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill on 21 May 1992 : |
| 5 | This is what he said in the Second Reading of the Maastricht bill : |
| 6 | Schumpeter 's main substantive target is what he regards as the nonsensical idea of classical democratic theory that the people can exercise a rational choice on individual questions and can give effect to this by choosing representatives . |
| 7 | So that is what he did in the Commons yesterday as he launched the Maastricht debate , not realising the only relevant list was the one to starboard as his Government had been holed below the waterline . |
| 8 | But love was what he felt for the stranger who 'd thrust herself upon him . |
| 9 | One crucial explanation produced by Swift-Hook for the failure to take wind power seriously enough was what he described in an interview with the Hinkley Inquirer as ‘ the naughty reasons ’ . |
| 10 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
| 11 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
| 12 | The idea of finding out about the , the batsman was what he did in the cricket team , so that when I mentioned that I could say |