Example sentences of "what he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now although her whole body cried out for fulfilment and she longed for Joss Barnet to complete what he had surely come to do , she knew that she must not let it happen . |
| 2 | What he had nearly said was , ‘ Dad would have been interested in the temple . ’ |
| 3 | He now had to think of a decisive way of finishing what he had tentatively started or he too ran the risk of losing face . |
| 4 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |
| 5 | In an interview which he gave in this year , he expressed his disappointment at the recent development of English poetry and suggested that any " creative advance " would come in prose fiction or in poetic drama : this is clearly what he himself was aiming at , as if he felt he could achieve in drama what he had already achieved in poetry . |
| 6 | The Daily Express had arrived in his absence and its front page confirmed what he had already heard from Mrs Pettifer up at the Manor . |
| 7 | He crossed the road , willing himself to suppress the significance of what he had already accepted : there was no turning back . |
| 8 | A man whose idea of democracy was everyone agreeing with what he had already decided ? |
| 9 | What he had just done was sentence her to another day of hell . |
| 10 | He could not believe what he had just lived through . |
| 11 | ‘ That probably sounds pompous , ’ adds Laing apologetically , reflecting on what he had just said . |
| 12 | ‘ Nice to meet you , Chief Inspector , ’ he said with automatic politeness , then considered what he had just said , decided it was beyond explanation and led them upstairs to his office . |
| 13 | But something nagged at her about what he had just said . |
| 14 | Then the comrade had repeated , word for word , what he had just said . |
| 15 | The superintendent asked if he really meant what he had just said . |
| 16 | His words rang in the clear air and she could feel her head swimming from the enormity of what he had just said . |
| 17 | What he had just said , if that was what he had said , was as frightening as anything else that had happened since my dad died . |
| 18 | Of course , the irony of what he had just said escaped him , but it caused Shiona to smile a bitter inner smile . |
| 19 | What he had just said hit her like a douche of cold water , and instantly Leith , while wanting to hammer the living daylights out of him , — although still forgetful of her tenuous job position — was otherwise working on full brain power . |
| 20 | Her heart was acting so erratically that she could hardly analyse what he had just said . |
| 21 | Got out paper and pencil to try and think through the implications of what he had just seen , then gave up and started off home . |
| 22 | When he took the ale into the warm farmhouse living room and saw everyone standing around the crackling log fire with food and drinks in their hands , he thought again of what he had just seen through the kitchen window . |
| 23 | He did n't really believe it , all the time he was being dragged through near-empty streets which were no longer silent , but filled with curious brawls , or outbursts of squealing or , what he had just heard , the sound of terrified retching . |
| 24 | Nothing would be quite the same after what he had just heard . |
| 25 | He was not consciously watching , but turning over in his mind what he had just heard , so that he was surprised to find the little brunette from the office standing at his elbow . |
| 26 | On hearing a recording of a sentence that was " JC but not quite the JC extreme " ( Sutcliffe 1982a : 124 ) he offered to tell a story in a language that was " more Jamaican " than what he had just heard . |
| 27 | Quickly he told Dalziel what he had just learned from Antony and of the train of thought this had started in his mind . |
| 28 | Barney appeared to be mulling over what he had just learned ; several times he looked searchingly at Melissa across the table . |
| 29 | He felt tempted to continue through the village to visit the young Prince at Woodstock Palace but , considering what he had just learnt , thought he had better wait for a while . |
| 30 | When he had finished Morse had the strong feeling that what he had just implied was surely true : there must be some connection between the disturbing events which had developed so rapidly around the Wolvercote Tongue . |