Example sentences of "what he [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a revolutionary writer Nizan was confronted by what he perceived as a series of particularly acute technical problems which had their origin in the specific historical situation of post-First World War France . |
| 2 | Depressed by what he perceived as a work-shy post-war Britain , Braham in May 1952 sailed with his wife and his three young sons to take up a commission in the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 3 | Such an analysis is compelling if counsel for B had , in what he perceived as the interests of his client , decided not to pursue any grounds beyond the certified question provided that the House would have allowed him to address those grounds had he raised them . |
| 4 | Hardly surprising , no doubt , since the entire thrust of Nizan 's work was aimed at disrupting what he perceived as the hypocritical serenity and intolerable indifference of an unjust world . |
| 5 | In late 1927 the PCF offered Nizan sanctuary from what he perceived as the alienation of bourgeois society . |
| 6 | Nizan 's disappointment at the realisation that the new Soviet society was still very much in its infancy , and that a fully developed Soviet state , liberated from morbid thoughts of death , was still only a distant future possibility , merely served to heighten his anger at what he perceived as the limitless class oppression of French society : hunger , poverty , torture , war . |
| 7 | Why had n't he told me what he thought at the time ? |
| 8 | On the day itself , Norman Mailer , then a juror at the Cannes film festival , was asked what he thought of the movies on offer . |
| 9 | When Edwin Chadwick , the great English public health expert , was visiting Paris , he met the Emperor who asked him what he thought of the improvements in Paris , to which he replied : ‘ Sir , it was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble . |
| 10 | Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) . |
| 11 | Lowe was in Auckland promoting a video of his life and times — inevitably referring to him as a ‘ master coach ’ which is now becoming one of the more boring sporting clichés — and was asked what he thought of the All Blacks ' failure to bring home the Cup . |
| 12 | Open Systems Today asked Dennis Ritchie , one of the creators of Unix , what he thought of the Novell/USL deal . |
| 13 | Karl Marx said long ago , ‘ There is a plank in the mind of every Englishman — ’ ( I do n't know what he thought of the Scots ) — ‘ beyond which it is impossible to penetrate with a new idea . ’ |
| 14 | Only the driver 's expression showed what he thought of the idea of living in a place like that . |
| 15 | Last year the award was won by Ernie Acker at Charlbury station , and we asked him what he thought of the awards . |
| 16 | The unsympathetic nature of his criticisms is also illustrated by what he says about the requirement that such universal premisses be ‘ better known ’ than their conclusions . |
| 17 | What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’ |
| 18 | Gandhi could certainly quote the teaching of the Gītā in support of this view , but it would still not detract from what he says about the demoralizing , degrading , and brutalizing effects of war . |
| 19 | Much of what he says about the roads and tracks depicted there is perceptive and useful , but even Professor Hoskins is wrong in the attribution of many of them . |
| 20 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he says about the Army Cadet Force , with which many hon. Members will agree . |
| 21 | For example , set your marketing manager the target of getting some positive publicity and let him control what he says to the press . |
| 22 | If the Secretary of State wishes to be believed at the Dispatch Box , he must honour what he says at the Dispatch Box . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | If what he says in the scum book is true then how could we let that happen , surely Blackburn could have been squeezed for a goodly 3 squiddlys . |
| 25 | The leader may also do a lot of listening but have the qualities , lacking in the others , of putting what he hears into an initiative . |
| 26 | What he got in the first |
| 27 | That 's what he got from the post , I bet he bought two of them . |
| 28 | What he noticed in the camps , however , were large numbers of evangelicals , presumably converted by American missionaries while the Catholic priests were away . |
| 29 | Of course , says East Anglian artist John Eno-Daynes , who yesterday demonstrated exactly what he meant at the Wilson Marriage Centre , Colchester . |
| 30 | Well Locke 's contemporaries would know exactly what he meant in the late seventeenth century . |