Example sentences of "[noun] what [pers pn] [vb base] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , I 'm a pensioner , and I think it 's a scandal what we get for a pension after all the years that you , you fight for you , you put away for your old age , and before you know it you 've nothing ! |
| 2 | I ca n't remember what I ca n't remember what they charge , it is on that bill what they charge for a Saturday . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |