Example sentences of "to what he have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana had embraced the dancing and singing lessons with fervour , but Claudia , trailing behind her sister , had been bored to tears by them , and after a time her father had put an end to what he 'd seen as a waste of his money and Claudia 's time . |
| 2 | Then she recalled his reactions to what he 'd labelled her prejudices in St Lucia , and stayed silent . |
| 3 | Henry II spent a large part of a long career campaigning in France ; but his wars added very little to what he had gained by marriage . |
| 4 | Inevitably , I noted these criticisms were rarely in relation to what he had said ( few had actually read the book ) , but rather were expressions of shocked outrage that he had failed to keep silent and say nothing at all . |
| 5 | Now , contrary to what he had said in The Economics , he acknowledged that this exchange could only be effected via market relations , i.e. ‘ petty-bourgeois economy ’ . |
| 6 | It had never once crossed his mind that she would take exception to what he had done . |
| 7 | Hume 's solution to what he had decided was the problem was the re-introduction , in a form suitable for a more politically evolved society , of the binding power of personal contact . |
| 8 | Apart from getting the teacher 's overview of what happened , how it related to what he had planned , and how he regarded the unit 's contribution to events , the observer can often learn more about individual episodes . |
| 9 | Wishart thought back to what he had heard about that fateful night at the banquet . |
| 10 | It seemed especially designed to give weight to his ineptitudes , lending a ridiculous dignity in space to what he had screwed up , like making a free-hanging sculpture of a broken egg-whisk . |
| 11 | The sum was small in relation to what he had suffered , but it was an admission by the state that he was an innocent person and that was what mattered most to the Black family . |
| 12 | It was known on what path he would be returning — or at least , according to what he had led us all to believe . |
| 13 | No clear answer to what he had asked ? |
| 14 | The one change to what he had recounted to Mrs Wilson lay in the time he had spent in London : he told Maidstone he 'd spent six months there . |
| 15 | Contrary to what he had suggested , Marc was a good , fast skier , and it was Sarella who had had difficulty in keeping up . |
| 16 | In with reference to what he 's done on the international stage , or with reference to the war only ? |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a crazy state of affairs for a player to be persecuted for the reaction of others to what he has done . ’ |
| 18 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |
| 19 | However , my hon. Friend can be assured that I have listened attentively to what he has said and his points will be considered carefully before a decision is made on whether the application should be called in . |