Example sentences of "and what he [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | have you told them big insurance company come and unstuck a little and what he had like Gail done , was like we had last year |
| 2 | She was afraid he would ask her about herself and to forestall this she asked him to tell her about his training and what he hoped for in the future . |
| 3 | Recently he penned probably the most abrasively intelligent letter ever to appear in Melody Maker , in which he laid out with admirable succinctness the differences between his pop aesthetic ( making sense of the world , pop as motivator ) and what he identified as the MM aesthetic of pop as dissipation . |
| 4 | Nancy then told them , in so low a voice that the listener round the corner could hardly hear her , where Monks often went for a drink , and what he looked like . |
| 5 | What is much more difficult to know is what were his motives for the decision , and what he expected to be the likely outcome . |
| 6 | He was a successful president not because he ‘ focused ’ — few men can have done so less — and not because he was the ‘ great communicator ’ , but because he knew who he was and what he believed in . |
| 7 | Appalled at the annual wakes week , with its general exodus to Morecambe and Blackpool , and what he saw as the mindless spending of hard-earned wages on inane amusements , Leonard proposed an alternative form of holiday . |
| 8 | At first Wexford felt a curious distaste and then he thought about the dead man and what he knew of him . |
| 9 | So were his long trousers , his formal shirts , and what he thought of as his work-clothes : camouflage trousers and combat jackets . |
| 10 | He 's punishing her for her beauty and what he thought of as her wickedness . ’ |
| 11 | I then asked John whether in recent years America was producing good literature , and what he thought of popular authors such as James Michener . |
| 12 | His method is to record what happens , over the course of sixty years of the narrator 's life , to the large group of people that he meets and meets again during this period ; what they made of themselves and what he made of them . |
| 13 | And what he said to this woman resulted in the transformation of her life ! |
| 14 | De Klerk declared that the point had now been reached when the " remaining vestiges of violence could be countered with the ordinary laws of the land " , except in Natal , where the " destruction of human life and property " and what he described as the " exceptionally high level of intimidation which exists there " had " assumed shocking proportions " and needed to be countered " by the strongest means available " . |
| 15 | Yet , without doubt , they would have been horrified by Morris Zapp and what he stood for . |
| 16 | He knew who he was and what he stood for , and he was not ashamed of it . |
| 17 | The bright sunlight had straightened the ball 's flight-path , and as Gower fed on the short balls and what he converted into half-volleys , there were fleeting thoughts of a century before lunch , such was his willingness to go after runs . |
| 18 | Hsu himself grew up in eastern China but his account is evidently a syncretic blend of what he learned as a child from personal experience and what he learned as an adult , several thousand miles away to the west , during fourteen months ' fieldwork in the Yunnanese city of Tali-fu , where he was employed for a while as a teacher in a local missionary college . |
| 19 | The justification for wishing to unmask these hidden features of Marx 's work is obvious , since an awareness of the questions he failed to ask would enable us to understand more clearly what he was trying to do , and what he regarded as a satisfactory answer to his dilemmas . |
| 20 | Reginald Bray , a friend of Masterman 's , would remark on the same development : As Bray organised the arguments of Iris powerful Christian treatise on The Town Child ( 1907 ) around deep shades of pastoral contrast between the serenity of natural phenomena and what he regarded as the unnatural and shallow inconsistency of the irreverent city , he thought that ‘ the most remarkable effect of an urban environment is to be sought in the disappearance of the habit of self-control ’ : The riotous jingo crowds which had accompanied the Ladysmith and Mafeking celebrations during the Boer War had indeed provided one of the most visible manifestations of these perceived alterations among the British people , and observing that ‘ to ‘ Maffick ’ ’ is not really congenial to the British character' The Times ( 30 October 1900 ) had mused upon whether ‘ our national character was changing for the worse ’ . |
| 21 | Preston , in the idle early hours when he was n't watching fifties horror movies , sometimes speculated on what kind of person he was and what he did for a living . |
| 22 | He looked elegantly at home , quite above this sort of thing , and she could n't help wondering who he actually was and what he did for a living . |
| 23 | She half turned to look at Curtis , raised her heavily bandaged hand and shuddered as she added , ‘ I get nightmares now , just thinking about that man and what he did to me . ’ |
| 24 | Erm can you tell me some more about your father 's job and what he did in his time . |