Example sentences of "[coord] what he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but then obviously that 's all he does or what he does I mean which is |
| 2 | What DeFries said to David or what he felt I do n't know , but what he said was , ‘ Well , if that 's what he wants , then he should leave ’ . |
| 3 | Elsewhere Jesus avoids such claims , and in the story of the temptation Jesus resisted the idea of using miracles to prove who he was , or what he had come to do . |
| 4 | Or what he had become . |
| 5 | The intent can best be proved by an admission from the accused or what he said to the female to whom he exposed himself . |
| 6 | I went to my doctor and ca n't remember what I said to him or what he said to me , but he put me on valium . |
| 7 | Androgyny , or what he calls the ‘ liberal supposition ’ that it is good for men and women to become more and more alike , creates in Mailer an aversion , ‘ a species of aesthetic nausea ’ ( pp. 134 — 5 ) . |
| 8 | At the Dunn Nutrition Laboratory in Cambridge , Dr John Cummings has built his reputation on the importance of dietary fibre ( or what he calls non-starch polysaccharides ) . |
| 9 | Federalism , or what he calls ‘ stratified systems of governance ’ , will help to bring order out of confusion . |
| 10 | Havelock , like Goody , sees these changes as ‘ generated by changes in the technology of the intellect , or what he calls the ‘ technology of preserved communication ’ ( ibid. p. 4 ) . |
| 11 | Or what he thought had happened inside his head , for those at the hospital who were supposed to know told him the brain scan showed nothing untoward . |
| 12 | Next morning De Gaulle had a bombshell for Mrs Goreng , or what he thought would be a bombshell . |
| 13 | A kind of domestic diplomatic service , representing the British — or what he saw as the best of the British — to the British . |
| 14 | The British seeker lost in the German metaphysical jungle , the homecomer from Paris dinner-parties armed with the latest idea , or what he hopes may pass for that , are abiding images for fun-making ; and cultural insularity is a vice to be levelled against the British only by those who do not know them , though those who do sometimes have cause to wish it were true . |
| 15 | Or what he wanted you to see and was misleading . |
| 16 | Luke Calder was a coolly calculating , ruthless man who would stop at nothing to get where or what he wanted . |
| 17 | But I said to him look Josh is n't exactly well off at the moment , he needs the money or what he bought so |
| 18 | His affections do not that way tend , Or what he spake , though it lacked form a little , Was not like madness . |
| 19 | His thick hair was greying but he had not given up on red baseball shoes , sleeveless T-shirts or what he called his ‘ cosmopolitan Lancashire accent , half scouse , half Lancashire ’ . |
| 20 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 21 | Managing director of International Software , Richard North , says that , while the Brentford , Middlesex company generates 70% of its revenues from reselling software and providing support services to approximately 4,500 customers — or what he claims to be 20% of the UK corporate market — it earns the remaining 30% from negotiating favourable licence deals with software vendors on behalf of large organisations . |
| 22 | Who he was or what he did , she did n't know , and did n't care . |
| 23 | The voters , it is said , ‘ do not know who he is or what he stands for ’ . |
| 24 | Stuart never makes me feel his pride is riding on whether we do what I suggest or what he suggests . |
| 25 | If the tests are negative at the time of the initial examination , it is quite a good idea to ask the doctor whether he thinks there is likely to be any infection present or what he believes your symptoms are due to . |
| 26 | As an index it is rather unsatisfactory since it tells us very little about how active a person is or what he believes … |
| 27 | But no matter who the attacker is , or what he intends to do , the rule remains the same : seize the initiative and keep it . |
| 28 | In assuming that it may be rational to be a sceptic about value alone , we had stopped at an uncomfortable halfway house between philosophy and common sense , between the pure thinker who doubts everything and the plain man who questions neither what he sees nor what he likes or dislikes . |
| 29 | A good rose-grower is proud of what he grows and what he sells . |
| 30 | The character talks freely about himself , and what he hopes to gain from his new rank . |