Example sentences of "what he [be] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Godfrey Hodgson : ‘ Never has so powerful a leader been so impotent to do what he wants to do , what he is pledged to do , what he is expected to do , and what he knows he must do ’ . |
| 2 | Marking a child 's spelling errors should always be less important than reading with sympathy and understanding what he is trying to say . |
| 3 | Most of them also use personal experience as Owen uses traumatic experiences of his during the war , to act as a base to what he is trying to say and to help to get his message across . |
| 4 | What he is trying to describe , and to find terms to name , is what would later be called ‘ existential awareness ’ , an awareness which includes and involves ourselves by contrast with any more or less detached knowledge of facts and truths quite external to ourselves . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what he is doing to promote opportunities for the British oil industry in winning orders and contracts overseas . |
| 6 | We will want to know what he is doing to address the POA 's concerns about the operation of ’ fresh start ’ . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what he is doing to discourage young Scottish homeless from leaving home and living rough in London . |
| 8 | I believe he is half aware of his problem and has made some effort to solve it by forcing himself to concentrate on what he is told to read . |
| 9 | He can observe his interlocutor and , if he wishes to , modify what he is saying to make it more accessible or acceptable to his hearer . |
| 10 | It is very effective and almost shocking when you realise that what he is saying makes complete sense and the uselessness of war is so true as it really achieves very little good if any at all . |
| 11 | Ask to meet the interviewer and , if this request is granted , ask him what he is going to ask you . |
| 12 | Her definitive reply was ‘ Because when he comes into a room I never know what he is going to say . ’ |
| 13 | Will the Minister explain what he is going to say to the people of the Holloway area who find themselves in the unenviable position of having the jobcentre with the largest gap between the number of vacancies and the number of registered unemployed ? |
| 14 | Nobody really knows what he is going to do . |
| 15 | Would he mind spelling out precisely what he is going to do to help the homeless ? |
| 16 | I do n't worry about what he is going to do . |
| 17 | ‘ Club directors are laymen and not football experts , which is why Liam has been asked to look at the team 's problems and advise us about what he is going to do about them . |
| 18 | So erm we 're both very concerned , not worried , very concerned about what on earth he is doing and what he is going to do . |
| 19 | According to Godfrey Hodgson : ‘ Never has so powerful a leader been so impotent to do what he wants to do , what he is pledged to do , what he is expected to do , and what he knows he must do ’ . |
| 20 | The mother then hires a jongleur , Jouglet , to teach her son the facts of life ; i.e. what he is expected to do on his wedding night and thereafter . |
| 21 | Personally , I do not share that view but whatever the reason , stubbornness must not be allowed to succeed : the dog must do what he is commanded to do , not in his own time , when he feels like it , but immediately ; and if it is done correctly , he should receive praise and lots of it . |
| 22 | Whether the ‘ pollution ’ comes to light as a result of proactive or reactive enforcement , however , the field man must decide at an early stage whether what he is observing constitutes a ‘ pollution ’ or not . |
| 23 | ‘ He 'd do that all right but look at what he 's getting mixed up ‘ It may be just talk , ’ she ventured edgily . |
| 24 | It 's only on the ground , that it becomes apparent what he 's overcome to reach these heights . |
| 25 | No , that 's supposed to be what he 's thinking look he 's got little blobs coming from his head . |
| 26 | He 's got to say this is what he 's trying to do in order to gain what it is he 's trying to gain . |
| 27 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 28 | Well you know what he 's trying to do , he 's trying up the claim so when back , he 's still gon na get the amount that he wants so he said t to Jim something about , he is n't paying the insurance I said you 're joking ! |
| 29 | Even I mean the the English teacher will know that , that what he 's trying to do is to get a student to write his intentions clearly , to make his points clearly , to have a goal in writing his essay , what is it he 's trying to say . |
| 30 | What he 's trying to do is always to get outside ideological systems , and to present arguments which are simply in terms of what we must all desire . |