Example sentences of "[prep] what he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logical really , after what he had said to Pat Merge with the Mallorys ; marry a Mallory . |
| 2 | We checked all but our oilies , hand baggage and briefcases into the airport lock-ups , and after what he had said about the weather , I was glad to see , when we got to the car desk , that he had laid on a four-wheel-drive land-cruiser . |
| 3 | She did not understand how Oliver could be so calm after what he had said about Dad at the end of the party . |
| 4 | Vic Wilcox demanded , an hour or so later , when they were back in his office after what he had referred to as ‘ a quick whistle round the works ’ . |
| 5 | She could n't understand how he dared to show his face after what he had done to Mr Potter . |
| 6 | Watching her , Trent recalled sailing towards what he had expected to be his death the previous morning on Golden Girl … his sense of deprivation , of having been robbed of his right to a normal life . |
| 7 | She had thought to do it in a civilised fashion , not confront him with her knowledge of what he had written about her , but he was persistent ; he could see his prize and her dollars slipping away . |
| 8 | This was indeed fortunate as it prevented him from revealing the fossilization of his mind by repeating much of what he had written in 1986 . |
| 9 | He had decided to take this , the most spectacular , way round to Buttermere principally because of what he had heard of the rich wadd mines in Borrowdale valley — opened up only once in seven years , so he had heard , in order to control the market in this unique mineral which was useful over a remarkable range , from gunpowder to dyes . |
| 10 | Tavett had been shaky but in the end unmoved : he added nothing and changed nothing of what he had said on Saturday . |
| 11 | It meant that Meredith Putt would not be going anywhere before the return of Superintending Constable Giles Aplin — and he would not come seeking Seb because of what he had witnessed on Handley Plain . |
| 12 | It was not until fifty years after the great fire which had swept it all away that Eadmer wrote this description of what he had seen as a small boy of about seven . |
| 13 | Saad 's family rushed to try and have their revenge on the witness who had announced the news like someone possessed , and who cared less about Saad 's death than about convincing the whole community of what he had seen in the hut that burning noonday . |
| 14 | He sent her some of his notes of what he had seen in their walks and frequently let her see his ‘ papers ’ before they were copied out for the editors . |
| 15 | Delaney averted his gaze from her , afraid of what he had seen in her eyes . |
| 16 | But the memory of what he had done to the corpse was so painful Marek obliterated it from his mind . |
| 17 | Drowning the typewriter reminded him of what he had done to the remains of Ivor Newley . |
| 18 | It took no more than a year before exhibitions of the works that he had brought out of Russia ( these being just part of what he had owned before leaving his best works to the Russian people ) began their triumphant tour of the prestigious galleries of Europe , America and Canada . |
| 19 | It would have been a different matter if they had let him write his own account of what he had found at the Foinmen . |
| 20 | She was a phantom , a shadow of what he had longed for . |
| 21 | Wilson made good use of what he had learned about publicity from his relationship with Plimsoll . |
| 22 | It would be unwise , therefore , to say anything to him of what he had learned about Ipuky 's sons from his first marriage , or about the other visitor to the City of Dreams . |
| 23 | She thought of what he 'd said about New England that day he 'd brought her to Rome , and how arrogantly she 'd reacted . |
| 24 | And then I thought again of Osvaldo , of what he 'd said in the silver light of the prison yard , his smile and the ‘ Bom dia ! ’ with which he had favoured me , knowing even then the terminating choice , the course that lay before him . |
| 25 | as if he were telling the story to someone else , Culley gave him a full account of what he 'd heard on the tape . |
| 26 | For me , it was as much a personal triumph for the coach , Ian McGeechan , as anybody else , because of what he has achieved with this side in such a short space of time . |
| 27 | When God instructs his people Israel to care for the poor , the appeal is invariably on the basis of what he has done for them . |
| 28 | Often the children weigh in like bloated adults and when the tanks are filled ( because Dad believes in making use of what he has paid for ) we have an over-loaded wonderplane that is very likely out of its C of G limits . |
| 29 | As an of what he 's lost by so doing , his gross salary for this financial year would have been twenty four thousand five hundred and sixty seven pounds . |
| 30 | Not long ago , I confronted my brother with what he had done to me . |