Example sentences of "what he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worship , you see , is the action of the entire congregation who together proclaim what God has done and what he continues to do ; we feed on his word — sacrament and Scripture — and are strengthened by his Spirit and sustained by mutual fellowship . |
| 2 | And it all comes over in hard black and white in his report to me , and I 've really only got what he says to go on , in that sort of case . |
| 3 | Nithard pointed out that what Lothar had done to him was just what he planned to do to Charles . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've got to be kidding ! ’ yelped Margaret Lenham , as much astonished as afraid at the sight of what he planned to use for the operation : a knitting needle . |
| 5 | It took a second for what he meant to sink home , then Fran felt colour suffuse her face . |
| 6 | He drew breath and leaned forward and he thought she actually knew what he meant to do and was n't going to object . |
| 7 | it did n't matter about that evil man with the smiling face ; she would go to the police herself and tell them what he meant to do . |
| 8 | Very early on he knew exactly what he meant to do in art . |
| 9 | She knew at once what he meant to do , for Aunt Liti had given the girls in camp enough warnings about the local gentry . |
| 10 | She immediately knew what he meant to do . |
| 11 | ‘ When we understood what he meant to do , we endeavoured to dissuade him ; but he was resolute , saying he had not had a roll for a long time ; and taking out of his pockets whatever might be in them — keys , pencil , purse , or pen-knife — and laying himself parallel with the edge of the hill , he actually descended turning himself over and over till he came to the bottom . ’ |
| 12 | If the speaker is lying , for instance , it may be that what caused his utterance was something quite opposed to belief in what he meant to say , or a favourable attitude towards what his utterance was meant to commend . |
| 13 | ‘ Shelley — ’ Miguel was turning to the patient , and Shelley did n't hear what he meant to say . |
| 14 | The tragedies of miscegenation have never been simple — ever since Othello did what he had to do to Desdemona . |
| 15 | He would do what he had to do and escape . |
| 16 | He repeated the plan several times to make sure Endill understood what he had to do . |
| 17 | When he graduated Hugo took a succession of low-paid jobs in 7th Avenue and the optimism with which he had set out began to be dimmed by the sheer sick-making banality of what he had to do — cutting samples in the disgusting fabrics with which the greedy cutthroat manufacturers he worked for made their living . |
| 18 | Suddenly he knew what he had to do : he had to go to Monument Hill and see the broken earth for himself . |
| 19 | Now he knew what he had to do : he had to go to the Unification Church and find out what , if anything , was going on there . |
| 20 | He knew exactly what he had to do . |
| 21 | Just as he had been wont to do as a boy , so this morning after waking , he had lain and thought of the day ahead and what he had to do in it , and he was aware that life had taken on a tinge of colour . |
| 22 | Looking up into Joe 's face , Michael felt a moment of terror at what he had to do . |
| 23 | Michael knew what he had to do . |
| 24 | What he had to do now was stretch out and take the hand of friendship being offered to him . |
| 25 | Ernest Jarvis did what he had to do elaborately , and it must have taken him a long time . |
| 26 | Perhaps he did not trust himself to mount that stool and do what he had to do . |
| 27 | As soon as they were in the train , in a rather crowded car where there was no chance of a seat , Jasper understood what he had to do . |
| 28 | The next night Rabscuttle , who had been told by El-ahrairah what he had to do , went to the garden and dug a scrape . |
| 29 | Her entire knowledge of what he had to do to earn his crust amounted to not a row of beans . |
| 30 | It was Anderson 's wild pleasure in what he had to do . |