Example sentences of "what he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I asked 'im what 'e done in the war an' 'e told me it was no concern o' mine . |
| 2 | If the promisor gets what he asks for in return for his promise , he has received sufficient consideration and is bound . |
| 3 | Such an analysis is compelling if counsel for B had , in what he perceived as the interests of his client , decided not to pursue any grounds beyond the certified question provided that the House would have allowed him to address those grounds had he raised them . |
| 4 | Hardly surprising , no doubt , since the entire thrust of Nizan 's work was aimed at disrupting what he perceived as the hypocritical serenity and intolerable indifference of an unjust world . |
| 5 | In late 1927 the PCF offered Nizan sanctuary from what he perceived as the alienation of bourgeois society . |
| 6 | Nizan 's disappointment at the realisation that the new Soviet society was still very much in its infancy , and that a fully developed Soviet state , liberated from morbid thoughts of death , was still only a distant future possibility , merely served to heighten his anger at what he perceived as the limitless class oppression of French society : hunger , poverty , torture , war . |
| 7 | As a revolutionary writer Nizan was confronted by what he perceived as a series of particularly acute technical problems which had their origin in the specific historical situation of post-First World War France . |
| 8 | Depressed by what he perceived as a work-shy post-war Britain , Braham in May 1952 sailed with his wife and his three young sons to take up a commission in the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 9 | Different tiers of government refused to co-operate ; Liverpool City Council disbanded inner-city working parties and incorporated Urban Programme issues into mainstream committees ; and the Secretary of State steadily distanced himself from what he perceived to be a largely meaningless ‘ talking shop ’ . |
| 10 | In responding to a plea for help from Spain 's Popular Front government , Stalin was thus pursuing what he perceived to be the foreign policy interests of the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | Insofar as he separated science from religion , he — like Francis Bacon — was reacting against what he perceived to be excessive conflation in certain spiritualist philosophies . |
| 12 | Leontief ( 1936 ) was the first of Keynes 's critics to attack what he perceived to be a theory of labour supply grounded in irrational behaviour by workers . |
| 13 | That remark sent a flash of real irritation through her , as Ronni remembered how he had laughed at her before , mocking what he perceived to be her dull life in London . |
| 14 | A bottle of what he took for whisky and four of beer . |
| 15 | He sat gazing into space , his unblinking stare which had compelled Harold Macmillan to shift him in Cabinet so as to avoid what he took for continual rebuke , unbroken by the throng that pressed about him . |
| 16 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 17 | He lodged what he took to be a legal objection against Ramsey being admitted to be Archbishop of York . |
| 18 | As she knocked twice and opened the door of the shed , Mungo could see what he took to be a workshop . |
| 19 | One angry Dutch CD said after the meeting that he deeply regretted the outcome , especially in view of what he took to be Mr major 's anti-European comments . |
| 20 | Word went round in the seventh century that St James the Apostle had visited Spain , and in the early ninth century a bishop of Padron discovered what he took to be his body . |
| 21 | Stephen was disappointed at what he took to be a refusal . |
| 22 | He looked around and saw that the third man was now lying over the roof of the light blue car and firing at them with what he took to be an M1 carbine . |
| 23 | Doublethink had entered so completely into Ceauşescu 's soul by the 1980s that he could genuinely bask in what he took to be sincere affection at the same time as he knew how stage-managed the whole event was . |
| 24 | After about five minutes he saw a strange sight of what he took to be three men approaching ; he challenged them in the usual way and shouted , ‘ Halt or I fire . ’ |
| 25 | There was no pause between exchanges ; all the while their tongues wagged their hands worked , for the woman at the table went on making her cakes , while Maggie walked back and forth into and out of what he took to be a pantry at the far end of the kitchen , bringing out all that was necessary for a tea . |
| 26 | Three CSEs are what he took to his job at a glaziers . |
| 27 | He was still trying to govern the Church from what he took to be the ‘ centre ’ . |
| 28 | It depicted what he took to be some sort of religious ritual . |
| 29 | Set against these were what he took to be the essential strengths and cultural possibilities of the German spirit , which in recent generations — and most clearly in the age of Goethe — had been partially realized and whose full realization was an ever-present dream . |
| 30 | He saw what he took to be Charles the Bald 's institutionalisation of hereditary countships in 877 as clinching his case . |