Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The writer and secret services expert , Chapman Pincher , says the evidence re-inforces what he already knew — that Oxford-based spies caused serious damage to national security . |
| 2 | You do know what he just said ? |
| 3 | It could be the sour smell of misfortune rather than the suspicion that he does n't know what he really wants which could mock the prediction that here is the next Conservative Prime Minister but one . ’ |
| 4 | JR sent for the latest aged debt report , quickly extracted from it the top 20 customers and found what he now expected to find — that more than 80% ; of the total debts were due form these , although by number they amounted to considerably less than 20% ; of the total customer file . |
| 5 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that the shadow Chancellor said recently that to repair what he unjustifiably called the Government 's neglect of the national health service would require an extra £2 billion in this year 's autumn statement ? |
| 6 | John Hill says he started racing with a ski boat and then when the engines got bigger he had to have a go at powerboating which he really enjoys … |
| 7 | And anyway , if somebody is too forthright and says what he really thinks you might feel impelled to hit him with a brick . |
| 8 | Because he could n't for the life of him imagine what he personally could have done to her . |
| 9 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 10 | And he got some packages made but unfortunately he did n't patent the idea because what he actually was made what he actually made was random access memories . |
| 11 | ‘ How did they react ? ’ asked Huy , remembering what he already knew about this . |
| 12 | He does not see what he so much wants to , the snow leopard , though he sees the evidence of its being which is , curiously , sufficient for him , despite his disappointment . |
| 13 | Not everyone had sufficient assets of sufficient value to cover what he still owed , or was willing to surrender them , but the new scheme certainly benefited a large number . |
| 14 | The key elements in responding well to a brief from a prospective client is to read it thoroughly , think it through , consider what he actually wants , make a proposal which is sound and creative within his expected budget , present these to him in a clear , unconfused way which you have rehearsed , and finally to give him your proposals in a well written form . |
| 15 | Mark can not believe what he just did . |
| 16 | When the small , green-coated man had disappeared in the crowd , Giles Aplin asked , ‘ Can we believe what he just told us ? ’ |
| 17 | Five years later happened what he always dreaded . |
| 18 | Somewhere in the hassle he had got what he really wanted : to go along himself . |
| 19 | At the beginning of a paratone , the speaker typically uses an introductory expression to announce what he specifically intends to talk about . |
| 20 | He shook his head a fraction and his gaze slid to the door and back — but even searching the hyacinth radiance around his head she could not guess what he really meant to do . |
| 21 | She realized that the mechanics of his deceitful nature would function whatever he truly felt , that the conveyor-belt of lies would continue to be fed even when the demand for them had ceased to exist . |
| 22 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 23 | Er many of us remember Gordon in the sixties working with a small group to get this place built thirty years on does he feel the playhouse is doing what he then hoped for and if not what are the things that have changed it ? |
| 24 | ( Aspen Pittman made a slip of the tongue , but has appeared on record many times as saying what he really meant to say to me . |
| 25 | As he preceded what he now thought of as a mythical being down to the canteen , he thought about how he 'd once found the sight of Zambia 's adjustments repulsive and unnatural . |
| 26 | In the second-person sequences , he is addressed by the voice of his subconscious which , speaking in the future tense , takes him back to relive the moments of truth when he made the choices which were to determine what he later became . |
| 27 | Beginning with the famous , or notorious meeting of the ‘ Hampstead Set ’ on the Sunday morning after polling day , he chronicles what he amusingly calls the ‘ war to the knife and fork ’ ( a quotation from a similar Liberal inquest at the turn of the century ) . |
| 28 | He thought about the long hours , the continuous toil , the mistakes , the mishaps , the inefficiency and the constant battle to build what he now saw before him . |
| 29 | Repeating a five-year-old falsehood about his nationality , he applied for a one-year renewal of his passport on 24 September 1938 and , on this occasion , repeated what he now knew to be false that he was British by birth . |
| 30 | But , having found what he evidently wanted , he only frowned and waved her away once more . |