Example sentences of "what he [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unsuspecting object of Mandy 's interest had come out of his room in the main lodge and was on what he probably assumed was an immensely private balcony . |
| 2 | ’ Yuan said , conscious of how far their talk had come ; of how far his father 's words were from what he normally professed to believe . |
| 3 | What he most liked , so he explained , was the feeling that from that proximate stretch , you felt that you could set sail , if the impulse took you , to any part of the world . |
| 4 | What he most wanted to know about was not the ancient world but modern politics with its historical background . |
| 5 | What he most looked forward to seeing were others of his kind with whom he could fly and from whom he would learn things . |
| 6 | But Deano 's no moaner , so when asked what he most enjoyed , he said with a grin : ‘ I guess it 's good , all the travelling ! |
| 7 | What he most enjoyed were the historical investigations , the satisfaction of demonstrating , as he had only last month , that a document dated 1872 was printed on paper containing chemical wood-pulp which was first used in 1874 , a discovery which had initiated a fascinating unravelling of complicated documentary fraud . |
| 8 | He thought this kind of work could give him what he most valued , independence and freedom to think . |
| 9 | What he most disliked in Minter — a suspicious temperament channelled into a grudge against the world — was what he most disliked in himself . |
| 10 | What he most disliked in Minter — a suspicious temperament channelled into a grudge against the world — was what he most disliked in himself . |
| 11 | His poetry tells a different story : there was wide and profound sentience — of man and nature , of beauty and the beast , of times and seasons , of perception and tactility , of hearing and tasting , and smelling ; at the bottom of which remains an unresolved questing , a whole gamut of unanswered questions which drove at the very heart of what he most wished to believe . |
| 12 | Sir Michael Clapham had what he later described as ‘ wild hopes ’ that the process of delegation would be achieved within two or three years of his vacating the chairmanship in 1977 . |
| 13 | Because this is what he always felt after his father died — that if he could just speak to him now , he could really open his heart and say everything , without feeling that strange mute on his vocal chords . |
| 14 | A game of squash or a hard workout was what he really needed , but the gym would n't be open for another three hours , nor did he know anyone he could call at such short notice to partner him … |
| 15 | This might work better for me than his lying in a darkened room , which was what he really needed to do . |
| 16 | Er many of us remember Gordon in the sixties working with a small group to get this place built thirty years on does he feel the playhouse is doing what he then hoped for and if not what are the things that have changed it ? |
| 17 | And it did n't help to have that idiot Kegan see what he bad done and try to extricate him . |