Example sentences of "what he [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consequence of this damage was , on this theory , that when the patient heard speech he could understand it but could not transmit what he had heard to the brain region for speech production , and so could not repeat it . |
| 2 | Nor is the subject referred to again until nearly two years later , when he surprised everyone by suddenly disclosing what he had heard at the Council and proposed to carry out fully in future . |
| 3 | He had decided to take this , the most spectacular , way round to Buttermere principally because of what he had heard of the rich wadd mines in Borrowdale valley — opened up only once in seven years , so he had heard , in order to control the market in this unique mineral which was useful over a remarkable range , from gunpowder to dyes . |
| 4 | He only knew what he had heard from the servants . |
| 5 | Except what he had made into a story . |
| 6 | Stephen Ross ( no relation ) , a director with 3i in Birmingham , takes up the story : ‘ We knew Alistair Ross and respected what he had done with the other poultry business . |
| 7 | He had no idea what he had done with the diary . |
| 8 | They than asked what he had done to the police that they had it in for him . |
| 9 | And it would amuse the Colonel to hear what he had done to the President 's elite guard . |
| 10 | But the memory of what he had done to the corpse was so painful Marek obliterated it from his mind . |
| 11 | Drowning the typewriter reminded him of what he had done to the remains of Ivor Newley . |
| 12 | Gabriel went back and told God what he had done for the three brothers . |
| 13 | The undergraduates of Magdalene used to say about their Master that he spent the morning doing nothing and spent the afternoon writing about what he had done in the morning . |
| 14 | She frowned ; she might be prepared to forget the past to help the work situation , but she had no intention of letting this man think she had forgiven what he had done in the past . |
| 15 | The King , understandably enough , did not thank Asquith for implying that he would deviate from the role of strict constitutionality by denying to Labour what he had given to the other parties . |
| 16 | In praising the Nun 's Priest , however , he is limited to a motif of sexual worth that inescapably recalls the fabliau : which is what he had imagined of the Monk ( VII : 1945 ) . |
| 17 | During the days , while the Captain worked on the ship , Frankenstein wrote down his story , and each evening he read what he had written to the Captain . |
| 18 | Maybe he had not lied , and in any case what he had said about the cottage being his home could easily be checked . |
| 19 | We checked all but our oilies , hand baggage and briefcases into the airport lock-ups , and after what he had said about the weather , I was glad to see , when we got to the car desk , that he had laid on a four-wheel-drive land-cruiser . |
| 20 | His sermon on the primacy of Peter ( which mirrored exactly what he had said on the subject in a tract written before he became pope , " De primatu Romani pontificis " ) explored the authority by which the pope governed , the Petrine commission . |
| 21 | Henry came into Finch 's flat one day and refused the usual catechism about what he had said to the analyst . |
| 22 | Now , contrary to what he had said in The Economics , he acknowledged that this exchange could only be effected via market relations , i.e. ‘ petty-bourgeois economy ’ . |
| 23 | He promised to take the cast to him in the morning , and I arranged to call at his office at noon to learn what he had discovered from the dentist . |
| 24 | It was not until fifty years after the great fire which had swept it all away that Eadmer wrote this description of what he had seen as a small boy of about seven . |
| 25 | Until his family was safe , he had declined to make any formal statement , but now he went with them to the American Embassy and swore out an affidavit about what he had seen as a DIA agent assigned to DEA NARCOG , Nicosia . |
| 26 | Fairley was said to be ‘ merely carrying out repetitive actions , trying to imitate what he had seen on the video screen ’ . |
| 27 | Saad 's family rushed to try and have their revenge on the witness who had announced the news like someone possessed , and who cared less about Saad 's death than about convincing the whole community of what he had seen in the hut that burning noonday . |
| 28 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 29 | On impulse , Charlotte stopped to look at what he had added in the ‘ Remarks ’ column , and laughed . |
| 30 | What he had judged from the photograph to be red-brick he saw now was deep red Quantock stone , used in the construction of the Abbey and all its surrounding buildings . |