Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was playing guitar in a group which I ran for a while , and then had some success with a couple of singles . |
| 2 | At which she reached for a bottle of whisky called Old Rarity . |
| 3 | The twins ' outfits for the panto , two of which they modelled for a preview , have cost £13,500 . |
| 4 | European directives on acquired rights and the transfer of undertakings regulations have given public service shop stewards their first glimmer of light over C C T which they fought for a decade with little more than their own bluff and courage . |
| 5 | I wrote to a prospective customer of the OALDCE 3/e Electronic on 19 May and faxed to you his letter in which he asked for a copy of the tape suitable for running on an AT&T machine . |
| 6 | Robert Bevan , one of their number , had worked at Pont-Aven and had known Paul Gauguin , and Sickert , whose sympathy with France went deep , owned a house in Neuville , on the outskirts of Dieppe , which he lent for a time to the Gilmans . |
| 7 | Connolly was sentenced to one day 's imprisonment , after which he applied for a summons against the labour master for alleged assault . |
| 8 | I had a friend who told me she fell for a boy when she woke up in the morning and realised he did n't snore . |
| 9 | I told you they sold for a lot of money . |
| 10 | Dad told them he went for a drink to the pub at Goldsithney , that he left at about nine and came straight home . ’ |
| 11 | Anyone who looked for a way out of stopping short of the tunnel of relentless worry could telephone Simon Johnson , manager of the Housing Debtline . |
| 12 | No wonder he could n't understand anyone who worked for a living . |
| 13 | And what I took for a womb , slowly flaking apart with age . |
| 14 | Nothing put me off , I 'm happy to say , but in the years before I got the chance to enjoy what I did for a living , I still had to pay the rent . |
| 15 | Do you know what she did for a living ? |
| 16 | ‘ You told them what you did for a living ? ’ |
| 17 | If individual purchasers want to reveal what they paid for a company , it is a matter for them . |
| 18 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
| 19 | Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach . |
| 20 | Preston , in the idle early hours when he was n't watching fifties horror movies , sometimes speculated on what kind of person he was and what he did for a living . |
| 21 | He looked elegantly at home , quite above this sort of thing , and she could n't help wondering who he actually was and what he did for a living . |
| 22 | In 1974 , he decided that none of the developmental systems being studied really gave him what he needed for a study of development . |
| 23 | " He will share your bed and possess your body , " Maria Candida had said when asked what it meant for a woman to give herself to her husband . |