Example sentences of "what he [verb] [verb] " 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 | Or what he thought had happened inside his head , for those at the hospital who were supposed to know told him the brain scan showed nothing untoward . |
| 3 | A young messenger-boy for the Post Office described what he thought brought youths to Highbury . |
| 4 | I look up to my brother , what he says goes with me , so that really hurt . |
| 5 | In such cases someone who says ‘ I know ’ lays himself open to reproach if what he says turns out to be false in much the same way as someone who says ‘ I promise ’ lays himself open to reproach if he does not do what he promised to do . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nithard pointed out that what Lothar had done to him was just what he planned to do to Charles . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | It took a second for what he meant to sink home , then Fran felt colour suffuse her face . |
| 10 | He drew breath and leaned forward and he thought she actually knew what he meant to do and was n't going to object . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Very early on he knew exactly what he meant to do in art . |
| 13 | She knew at once what he meant to do , for Aunt Liti had given the girls in camp enough warnings about the local gentry . |
| 14 | She immediately knew what he meant to do . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Shelley — ’ Miguel was turning to the patient , and Shelley did n't hear what he meant to say . |
| 18 | Even once Cinzia had bullied one of the assistants into offering Zen a discount , the item she had selected came to about three times what he had reckoned to spend , but he paid up . |
| 19 | Finding Alec Davidson was much easier than I thought although he surprised me by what he had become . |
| 20 | He was a literary man and he had dreamed of becoming the Shakespeare of the movies , but what he had become in fact was more like a movie version of Dickens . |
| 21 | Each time that Joyce looked in his shaving-mirror and whenever he caught the reflection of his face , the livid and disfiguring streak reminded him of what he had become . |
| 22 | Long into the night he sobbed , weeping for what he had lost , and for what he had become . |
| 23 | He stared at the T'ang , wondering if he knew what he had become ; if the doubt that he professed was as thorough , as all-inclusive as it ought to be . |
| 24 | But the burden of it , the reality of what he had become while he slept , had not yet touched him . |
| 25 | Or what he had become . |
| 26 | Bloody valet was what he had become . |
| 27 | He shook his head as if trying to deny what he had heard . |
| 28 | ‘ An informer is an informer , ’ Tim Skerritt said , repeating what he had heard so many times in the village that day . |
| 29 | Wishart thought back to what he had heard about that fateful night at the banquet . |
| 30 | Quinn persuaded Zack to tell him what he had heard , even though he knew . |