Example sentences of "what he [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Different tiers of government refused to co-operate ; Liverpool City Council disbanded inner-city working parties and incorporated Urban Programme issues into mainstream committees ; and the Secretary of State steadily distanced himself from what he perceived to be a largely meaningless ‘ talking shop ’ . |
| 2 | In responding to a plea for help from Spain 's Popular Front government , Stalin was thus pursuing what he perceived to be the foreign policy interests of the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | Insofar as he separated science from religion , he — like Francis Bacon — was reacting against what he perceived to be excessive conflation in certain spiritualist philosophies . |
| 4 | Leontief ( 1936 ) was the first of Keynes 's critics to attack what he perceived to be a theory of labour supply grounded in irrational behaviour by workers . |
| 5 | That remark sent a flash of real irritation through her , as Ronni remembered how he had laughed at her before , mocking what he perceived to be her dull life in London . |
| 6 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 7 | He lodged what he took to be a legal objection against Ramsey being admitted to be Archbishop of York . |
| 8 | As she knocked twice and opened the door of the shed , Mungo could see what he took to be a workshop . |
| 9 | One angry Dutch CD said after the meeting that he deeply regretted the outcome , especially in view of what he took to be Mr major 's anti-European comments . |
| 10 | Word went round in the seventh century that St James the Apostle had visited Spain , and in the early ninth century a bishop of Padron discovered what he took to be his body . |
| 11 | Stephen was disappointed at what he took to be a refusal . |
| 12 | He looked around and saw that the third man was now lying over the roof of the light blue car and firing at them with what he took to be an M1 carbine . |
| 13 | Doublethink had entered so completely into Ceauşescu 's soul by the 1980s that he could genuinely bask in what he took to be sincere affection at the same time as he knew how stage-managed the whole event was . |
| 14 | After about five minutes he saw a strange sight of what he took to be three men approaching ; he challenged them in the usual way and shouted , ‘ Halt or I fire . ’ |
| 15 | There was no pause between exchanges ; all the while their tongues wagged their hands worked , for the woman at the table went on making her cakes , while Maggie walked back and forth into and out of what he took to be a pantry at the far end of the kitchen , bringing out all that was necessary for a tea . |
| 16 | He was still trying to govern the Church from what he took to be the ‘ centre ’ . |
| 17 | It depicted what he took to be some sort of religious ritual . |
| 18 | Set against these were what he took to be the essential strengths and cultural possibilities of the German spirit , which in recent generations — and most clearly in the age of Goethe — had been partially realized and whose full realization was an ever-present dream . |
| 19 | He saw what he took to be Charles the Bald 's institutionalisation of hereditary countships in 877 as clinching his case . |
| 20 | And , turning back the net curtain in his wee front parlour , caught sight of what he took to be a torchlight procession . |
| 21 | We also went a few nights later to Stavanger , and I do believe that my bomb-aimer at least claimed he saw , through broken cloud , what he took to be hangars on the airfield at Stavanger and these were bombed . |
| 22 | McEwan Younger was a marvellous host , especially with business or political cronies , and had a leisurely , relaxed manner that could become passionate in discussion of what he thought to be mistaken policies or dubious personalities . |
| 23 | This is fighting talk , and suggests his fond memories of Maurras and the Action Française , but it was only talk — perhaps it was Eliot 's way of enlivening what he thought to be the muted tone of discussion in England ; perhaps it was also a method of inspiring his colleagues at the Moot whom he called " companions in affliction " , intellectuals or refugees who were on the periphery of events to which there was no foreseeable end . |
| 24 | The father , however , was dissatisfied with what he thought to be the inadequacy of the local authority 's endeavours in this regard and he instructed solicitors . |
| 25 | The best known example of this is Liversidge v. Anderson in which the majority of the House of Lords found that the phrase ‘ reasonable cause to believe ’ in wartime emergency legislation would be complied with provided that the Secretary of State acted on what he thought to be such a reasonable cause , and that it was not necessary for there to be objective facts to support this . |
| 26 | As Mao 's personal secretary and speechwriter for over 30 years , Chen was one of the ‘ Great Helmsman ’ 's closest confidants , writing countless tracts and playing a key role in the Cultural Revolution , Mao 's catastrophic campaign to purify the Communist party hierarchy and revive what he imagined to be China 's fading revolutionary ardour in the 1960s . |
| 27 | Though he has a good deal of contact with senior officials ( and in the northern agency spends most of his time at headquarters ) he has a strong loyalty to the field officers in his area , retaining from his own earlier experience as a field officer what he feels to be a sympathetic understanding of practical problems . |
| 28 | Perhaps you 'd better start , ’ suggested Karelius with what he felt to be rather transparent cunning . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , well , my dear fellow , ’ he said with what he felt to be rather unconvincing surprise , ‘ fancy meeting you here . |
| 30 | The tide was coming in and , as he rounded the rocks which screened the Cove , he saw two things : a courting couple doing what he felt to be far more than courting and then something a little further away which made his heart miss a beat . |