Example sentences of "do for a " in BNC.

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1 They all know what you do for a living . ’
2 ‘ Look , Clive , I do n't like what you do for a living , I do n't like the way you treat girls at parties , I do n't like your taste in shirts and I do n't like the way you look .
3 C. If you ask the people on a housing estate what they do for a living — what their occupations are — you probably will get answers like those in the drawing .
4 Social worth in our society is related to the workplace : you are valued by what you do for a job , not what or who you are as a person .
5 This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing .
6 Working as I do for a technically based industry , I hope I may be forgiven for believing that almost anything can be achieved through technology , if we are dear enough about what is needed .
7 ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’
8 Ian , a 32-year-old salesman , says : ‘ I made a conscious decision to drink low-alcohol lager because entertaining , and therefore drinking , is what I do for a living .
9 I think that 's what princes do for a living , ’ he said hopefully .
10 It 's what I do for a living .
11 ‘ And what does good-for-nothing Sunil do for a living ? ’
12 Wha what is it that you do for a living ?
13 You have that choice , that chance to do that for my patients and I tell you , to be with you , to be part of you , I 'm as a , I learn for you , I think of you , and I can just tell you , I wish you all the best , but I wo n't forget your responsibility to help the medical profession to make , with the work they do for a better tomorrow possible , due to your work , your hard attempts to give that financial ability through the best insurance policies on the market today .
14 Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living .
15 Like if you are married , and what you do for a living apart from this .
16 Real people with real jobs , not just holidaymakers out to forget what they do for a living . ’
17 ‘ I was just wondering what you do for a living . ’
18 ‘ I wonder what you do for a living ? ’ he asked thoughtfully .
19 We get the same royalties for a CD as we do for a cassette
20 Or for guessing what this pair do for a living .
21 Yeah , but you do for a programme .
22 Well we do for a swim we 're going to a
23 ‘ What can a piece of mine do for an audience that has really come to enjoy one of the great operatic masterpieces of all time ? ’ asks Jonathan Dove .
24 That 's just what they usually do for an exercise , there 's no much You can not actually simulate an actual rescue so that 's the best you can do .
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