Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] do for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing . |
| 3 | ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's what I do for a living . |
| 6 | Er i she was in the Cheltenh Do you know what she does for a living ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm only interested in who she is , an' what she does for a livin' , ’ she said sharply . |
| 8 | Do you know what she did for a living ? |
| 9 | They all know what you do for a living . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | Like if you are married , and what you do for a living apart from this . |
| 12 | ‘ I was just wondering what you do for a living . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I wonder what you do for a living ? ’ he asked thoughtfully . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ You told them what you did for a living ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Real people with real jobs , not just holidaymakers out to forget what they do for a living . ’ |
| 19 | And how old he is , what he does for a living , how much he 's got in the bank — and probably whether he 's twice divorced with a string of children tucked away somewhere . ’ |
| 20 | " Know what he does for a living ? " |
| 21 | You do n't even know what he does for a living properly ! ’ |
| 22 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |