Example sentences of "[pers pn] did for a " 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 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 3 | ‘ You told them what you did for a living ? ’ |
| 4 | Do you know what she did for a living ? |
| 5 | Hawaiian they did for a living , jazz they played for themselves . |
| 6 | They did for a couple of years , and he won several tournaments and appeared in the Ryder Cup at the age of twenty-two . |
| 7 | I mean t to for the cooking that they did for a pub it was and we had duckling and salmon , poached |
| 8 | What did you say he did for a living ? ’ |
| 9 | One of the simplest and most elegant demonstrations of this was by Peter Lawrence , as part of the work he did for a Ph.D at Cambridge . |
| 10 | Lord Newport asked Richard to teach in his place , which he did for a few months . |
| 11 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
| 12 | When Ken thereupon resigned , however , William appealed to him to remain , which he did for a further year . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well he did a he did for a bit . |
| 17 | Two of the drovers took a strip of white cotton about 20 yards long and held it across the top of the quay , and it did for a fence . |
| 18 | It did for a time seem to explain the trajectories of development and underdevelopment in some countries of Latin America , but when it was applied to Africa and Asia it was much less successful . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 20 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |