Example sentences of "[adv] what he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather , since he indubitably wanted a relationship with Alexandra , perhaps what he hoped for was to dictate the terms , rather than have them dictated to him . |
| 2 | Traditionally an Englishman is as much what he does in his free time as in his hours of work , and both Who 's who and the obituary columns honour this fact . |
| 3 | THE author Salman Rushdie is not one to let death threats prevent him doing pretty much what he wants to , as flamboyantly as he wants to . |
| 4 | And obviously what he did to me |
| 5 | I asked him to write down what he liked about the skinhead style and , after a few moments ' thought , he dashed off the above . |
| 6 | So what he says about external objects may be false in spite of being founded on observation . |
| 7 | Then , ever a man to answer selectively only what he cared to , he asked , ‘ Where 's your bag ? ’ |
| 8 | He was probably spoilt by his sisters , and and got more or less what he wanted as a child , and |
| 9 | Anyway what he said to me was |
| 10 | He took the envelope from Sandison who also handed over what he believed to be enough money to cover the postage . |
| 11 | He stood in front of her threateningly , and she wondered just what he had in mind for her . |
| 12 | In this respect it is very important to understand just what he meant by exchange . |
| 13 | Billy Sullivan was very polite and proper , if a blasphemer , but he had used the wicked words with passion , unable to express just what he felt in any other way . |
| 14 | They drank the Coca-Cola and Timothy consumed the Worthington E , saying it was just what he needed after being on the sauce the night before . |
| 15 | These traits in Gandhi were no accident : he was profoundly a creature of the Anglo-Indian interaction , and a worthy adversary was indeed just what he aspired to be . |
| 16 | Which is just what he did on the actual day . |
| 17 | Not only did John make full appearances in Palace 's promotion side of 1968–69 , but he absolutely relished the challenge of Division One and , unless you saw him there for the Palace you will simply never know just what he did for us . |
| 18 | It was not what he had in mind . |
| 19 | This recommendation was clearly not what he had in mind at all . |
| 20 | If he comes to court , what happened at the police station does n't matter because he 'll then give direct evidence , not what he said in the police station but what actually happened on that night in the , in the estate . |
| 21 | The Pensioner was , however , careful to note that ‘ it 's the votes in Parliament that show up your MP , NOT WHAT HE SAYS ON THE PLATFORM . ’ |
| 22 | Was that not what he expected from Asian shopkeepers , and did that justify breaking their bones ? |
| 23 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 24 | Indeed it is difficult to imagine such a state of affairs , but in fact Marx , especially in Formen makes it quite clear that this is not what he meant at all ; it is only under the influence of Morgan in The Origin that Engels might possible by construed to have implied something so unlikely . |
| 25 | It 's not what he put on a woman , he put a on a woman , or something like that . |
| 26 | But then Matthew was not what he appeared to be . |
| 27 | So anyway , I did n't even hear anymore what he said after that , after he said this like so I was messing about with Graham |
| 28 | When the number ended he clapped in a careful way , unconsciously trying.to say exactly what he felt about it . |
| 29 | down all these Coronation Street type houses , and erm one of her friends was on the telephone the other night and er this chap draws up in the car and she says I , I wo n't be a minute , and he comes straight out of his car , he said I 'll give you one minute he said , I 'll drive my car and come back down that ro up back to the telephone box and he said if you ai n't gone by then he said I 'll smash your fucking face in , that 's exactly what he said to her . |
| 30 | That 's exactly what he sounds like when it 's played back . |