Example sentences of "he [verb] [Wh det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your worships , those are the circumstances I would ask you to bear in mind that this man a ha , has four summonses against him purely as a result of really ignorance as far as purchasing documents is concerned they were in order and erm he would of produced them had he realised what the officer was saying to him and er , that he would of realised had he not been suffering the shock , but he was actually sufferance suffering at the er at the time of the accident . |
| 2 | I feel that he is really saying not that he sees the cleverness and the artistic quality of the painting or the message in the paintings as might first be assumed , but that he understands what the church is doing , instead of helping the poor , it was showing the pictures to educate them about God . |
| 3 | Does he know what a Hoover 's for ? |
| 4 | ‘ 1 mean , how could he know what a woman 's prerogative is ? ’ |
| 5 | I mean he grasped what the word , he grasped the way she taught him and he soon learnt to read and he could retain those words |
| 6 | And so , Simon he he wants what the apostles have got . |
| 7 | How often had he said what a helpmeet she would be , if only Alfred Wittisham were not there . |
| 8 | Though deeply Anglo-Catholic he rejected what the world thought of as Anglo-Catholic fuss , a mistaking of the right vestment for the right religion . |
| 9 | I suspect that he is doing so because he believed what the Home Secretary said when he intervened . |
| 10 | How could he understand what an agony the evening must be for her . |
| 11 | But his concentration was poor these days : he could hardly keep his mind on anything for more than a moment … and even when he heard what the Padre said it made no sense … " the Editor of The Times as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 12 | ’ — but when he heard what the fees would be if he stayed he decided that he was hanged if he was going to spend all that money on being upset . |
| 13 | Llewelyn was close in his chamber with his chaplain-secretary and Ednyfed Fychan over the dictation of letters , and his seal was already on the credentials of the envoys who were to represent him in Shrewsbury ; but David , when he heard what the messenger had to report , on his own authority brought him in to the conference and shattered it . |
| 14 | He loved what the humanists did in reviving the Ancients , and hated the ferocity of their adversarial style : ‘ If their manners were often like those of giants , so were their labours ’ . |
| 15 | By nature , he was a gentle , sensitive man , and even in the throes of angry threats against whites it was hard to hide a smile , for he loved what the blacks call ‘ selling wolf tickets ’ , tricking people into fear . |
| 16 | Over the next few months Endill began to hate his schoolwork more and more ; not because it was difficult and boring but because he thought what the teachers taught him was of no use . |
| 17 | He understood it a little better when he saw what a state the survivors were in . |
| 18 | He wondered whether he dared ring Victoria or Emma , but when he saw what the time was , he knew he could not . |
| 19 | Donleavy posed these questions as if , like Coleman , he knew what the answers were already . |
| 20 | He knew what the expression would be . |
| 21 | He knew what the girl was when he hired her , the bald-faced hypocrite ! |
| 22 | He knew what the boys were fighting for , and was sure that the public would give a right judgement when the proper time came . |
| 23 | he knew what the odds were and everyone else did n't . |
| 24 | Ackroyd knew immediately where he meant and his blood ran cold as he knew what the foreman was going to say next . |
| 25 | He knew what the losses might be . |
| 26 | He wished he knew what the time was . |
| 27 | He knew what the answer to that would be . |
| 28 | She stared at him and he knew what the answer was going to be . |
| 29 | Only he knew what an effort it cost him to climb down from a helideck onto a drilling rig . |
| 30 | He feared what the results might have been from the local elections and he 's , he 's an example in fact of a prime minister who went into the elections trailing in the opinion polls . |