Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [pron] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 British Airways staff are fantastic , whatever class you travel , and plied Kenneth with enough booze to soften the effect of two Sun journalists who approached us for a story and picture after we 'd been airborne for about eight hours .
2 He handed the paper to Hawkins , who studied it for a moment , then said : ‘ I know those places marked with an asterisk .
3 These words were probably written after the capture and tonsuring of the king in 731 by unnamed opponents who kept him for a while in a monastic centre , somewhere presumably in Northumbria .
4 But yesterday Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ It was n't Darlington Council who imposed the poll tax on the town or who kept it for a year longer than necessary .
5 Fishing is also a sport , although the chaps who do it for a livelihood in trawlers are not included in the sporting fraternity .
6 But I have , I , I 've ever since I 've retired I 've run a performing dance group of men and women erm who do it for a hobby .
7 ‘ I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Stop The World had had a proper director , who did it for a living .
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