Example sentences of "[adv] what he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather , since he indubitably wanted a relationship with Alexandra , perhaps what he hoped for was to dictate the terms , rather than have them dictated to him . |
| 2 | He meant literally what he said . |
| 3 | James Allen said that , ‘ A man is literally what he thinks ’ . |
| 4 | Traditionally an Englishman is as much what he does in his free time as in his hours of work , and both Who 's who and the obituary columns honour this fact . |
| 5 | It was n't so much what he had done , though it was the very last thing she had expected , it was the way it had felt , like a high-voltage jolt of electricity . |
| 6 | ‘ If He was n't a God , I do n't see that it matters much what He taught . |
| 7 | It 's pretty much what he expected , and it makes the timing more urgent . |
| 8 | Doyle , a passionate man who says pretty much what he thinks , has upset more than a few with his assessments . |
| 9 | Then he said , ‘ What I need from you is not so much what he paid you , but why . |
| 10 | THE author Salman Rushdie is not one to let death threats prevent him doing pretty much what he wants to , as flamboyantly as he wants to . |
| 11 | ‘ That was pretty much what he called you . |
| 12 | Qualification represents the aggregation of whatever properties the speaker feels are needed to identify sufficiently what he wishes to talk about , and so it is entirely to be expected that , on occasion , more than one adjectival property should appear . |
| 13 | In order to provide an example of fifth normal form , Date has to bring in what he calls a ‘ bizarre constraint ’ . |
| 14 | And obviously what he did to me |
| 15 | You could just see him getting more and more het up but if he just sort of sat down and wrote things down what he 'd got to do and do , try and do them in a set order . |
| 16 | Then he wrote down what he expected would happen in the ensuing month with respect to each key task and what he was going to do about it , asked questions about policy , and commented on long-term opportunities , threats , and needs . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , as clearly as he could , he wrote down what he had observed — that a large French force of infantry , cavalry and artillery was marching north out of Charleroi on the Brussels road . |
| 18 | She had not even thought about persuading Marek Nowak to write down what he had told her . |
| 19 | It seems that there was some activity in the fells for in an " accompt " dated 10 August 1691 Roger Fleming wrote down what he had paid John BlackwaIl and others as partners ; himself having a sixth part of " ye mynes in Coniston Ffells … |
| 20 | Anxious about his prospects of liberation , the slave Moschos went for a night of incubation to the temple and had a dream in which the divine pair Amphiaraus and Hygieia ordered him to write down what he had seen and to set it up in stone by the altar . |
| 21 | Well he 's alright like , but er phoned us yesterday , I wrote it down what he told us in the book , in there , cos it 's confidential between him and the Co-op , but |
| 22 | Because he painted so well , put down what he saw , people would admire him . |
| 23 | Now I write down what he said , it seems so obvious . |
| 24 | They embraced one last time and then he was off , rushing to Ferdinando to help him carry down what he claimed were his ‘ very most precious ’ things . |
| 25 | I asked him to write down what he liked about the skinhead style and , after a few moments ' thought , he dashed off the above . |
| 26 | Fuller proceeds to lay down what he conceives the forms and limits of adjudication to be . |
| 27 | especially what he says |
| 28 | And when the great gentleman detective got hold of the village postman and subjected him to an interrogation which ranged from what he had eaten for breakfast to whether or not he possessed a wireless set and if so what he had listened to on the previous morning , Sergeant Bramble maintained a stoic countenance . |
| 29 | Well the Solicitors turned round and said to him that there 's a twenty five per cent chance he 'll lose his licence , but then he 'll get there erm , but most he 'll probably get is about a month , and then he said , well surely your job could find you something to do in that time , has said , no licence , no job , so what he had to do was to . |
| 30 | So what he had to do , the the the the customer in fact , is end up by climbing up the bannister to get to the top so that he could get hold of the lad that was at the top get hold of him by the feet and pull him upwards and over and er finally free the man at the bottom . |