Example sentences of "be what he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Which is a good thing because that 's what he 's done in our lives .
2 That 's what he 's done in the life of the human race .
3 Groa said , ‘ If that 's what he 's gone to Kinrimund for , then I wish I 'd known .
4 It 's what he 's got against Mrs Gotobed , when you come down to it .
5 In praising the Nun 's Priest , however , he is limited to a motif of sexual worth that inescapably recalls the fabliau : which is what he had imagined of the Monk ( VII : 1945 ) .
6 The contract is what he has said in his word .
7 I can assure him that fair play is what he has got in this case .
8 This was what he 'd wanted of her all the time ; now , he was finally getting to it , baiting the trap not with jewels or furs but with what he assumed would matter to her .
9 That was what he 'd thought of every morning since he 'd first started feeding them with Mrs Wright 's grain .
10 But he tempered the apprehensiveness with a shrug-of-the-shoulders-and-oh-what-the-hell attitude which told me that in his view the experience , and not the heroics of the impression he might create , was what mattered , was what he would enjoy , was what he had come for .
11 After all , that was what he had come for .
12 He was walking in and out of the bays , studying the bookshelves as though that was what he had come for .
13 So that was what he had meant by seven lengths of the corridor !
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