Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] what he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long into the night he sobbed , weeping for what he had lost , and for what he had become . |
| 2 | He felt no fear that either the militia or the rebels would molest him or his men , since all the troubles were occurring in what he thought of as the richer areas . |
| 3 | Whilst Edward of England sat fuming over what he had learnt , Sir Amaury de Craon was nursing his bruised wrist and shouting orders to his retinue for a swift return to Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | ‘ A man who puts 'is stock first is acting for what 'e thinks is t'best , ’ he snapped . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well I was working in the quarry , and er it 's last March turned round and said he wanted a new implemented with a new miracle saw that he had bought and he did n't really give us much warning about what he was gon na do but all he said was that er he was gon na scrap our old bonus contract and implement a new one no matter what , and from various figures that were bandied about we all realized we were gon na back quite a lot worse off because of it . |
| 7 | Like a prison community , it is seen by respectable opinion as an area incapable of acting in what he calls ‘ an approved social manner ’ . |
| 8 | To him , the " checks and balances " of Natural Selection were only some of the forces operating in what he saw as the evolution of spirit or mind through matter . |
| 9 | She hardly seemed to be listening to what he was saying . |
| 10 | She hurried her drink , anxious to get away and only half listening to what he was saying . |
| 11 | Jane , oh Jane 's , she said that because I have n't got enough time , only I have n't , I 'm not listening to what he 's saying , oh , this is important , and then you go off again . |
| 12 | The communicator who has not interacted with the material and is merely passing on what he or she has read or been told functions as a tertiary source . |
| 13 | Everyone I have spoken to about him — without exception — brought up his reading , the breadth of it , the compulsion , and the evangelical enjoyment he took in passing on what he had read the night before . |
| 14 | I said not that I 'm only saying like , I 'm only saying , passing on what he said I , not that you fucking crease me ! |
| 15 | For if the willingness is there , the gift is acceptable according to what one has , not according to what he does not have . |
| 16 | ‘ According to what he said he wanted to learn Dutch , but not German , and he has n't got a wife . |
| 17 | I myself think that the writer 's relation to things as they are changes according to what he or she is writing . |
| 18 | But in fact it is not necessarily the case that if each person votes , or decides , according to what he or she perceives as his or her personal interest or wishes , the outcome is the good of all or even of the majority . |
| 19 | It was known on what path he would be returning — or at least , according to what he had led us all to believe . |
| 20 | By way of illustration , he cited the case of his Preface to The Dark Side of the Moon , which , according to what he had been told by a Foreign Office official , would certainly be so taken ; but I felt that there would be infinitely more likelihood of the remarks of T. S. Eliot being heeded than those of E. W. F. Tomlin . |
| 21 | Erm I , I wo n't go into them because you know basically erm I think the three main ones reflect the fact that he 's saying the peasants are rising up and they 're not only changing their political views erm but are obviously changing their cultural values as well according to , to , according to what he suggests . |
| 22 | He was using the middle classes as a reference group ; aspiring to what he believed to be their values of ‘ honour ’ and ‘ duty ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ The best coach is the athlete looking at what he is doing , ’ says Wilson . |
| 24 | Insofar as he separated science from religion , he — like Francis Bacon — was reacting against what he perceived to be excessive conflation in certain spiritualist philosophies . |
| 25 | Heading for what he thought was the way they had come , he was immediately confused . |
| 26 | He rested on the water waiting for what he knew was going to happen . |
| 27 | This would of itself set off ecumenical vibrations such that , although it could not be called a ‘ Council of reunion ’ like Florence , it could be a Council leading towards what he called ‘ the recomposition of the whole mystical flock of Christ ’ . |
| 28 | Hugh chides us for selling at what he regards as low prices , but he forgets that our hobby not our source of income ; it is a way of relaxing during evenings and weekends when the serious business of earning a living is over . |
| 29 | Distinguishing between what he calls natural meaning ( as in Those black clouds mean rain ) , and non-natural meaning or meaning.nn ( equivalent to the notion of intentional communication ) , Grice gives the following characterization of meaning-nn ( 10 ) S meant-nn z by uttering U if and only if : ( i ) S intended U to cause some effect z in recipient H ( ii ) S intended ( i ) to be achieved simply by H recognizing that intention ( i ) Here , S stands for speaker ( in the case of spoken communication ; for sender or communicator in other cases ) ; H for hearer , or more accurately , the intended recipient ; " uttering U " for utterance of a linguistic token , i.e. a sentence part , sentence , or string of sentences or sentence parts ( or the production of non-linguistic communicative acts ) ; and z for ( roughly ) some belief or volition invoked in H. |
| 30 | Perhaps he was more specific , speaking of what he usually saw when he came to work in the morning — Eva in her blue silk pyjamas and red robe shouting and laughing and giving orders to me for breakfast , and reading aloud from the papers . |