Example sentences of "[pron] do for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing . |
2 | ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | It 's what I do for a living . |
5 | She made two journeys up it , muttering to herself : ‘ It 's the last thing I do for the nigger . |
6 | I am always at risk in the things I do for the Motherland , but idiots create the kind of additional risks one can not always allow for . ’ |
7 | Yeah , but you do for a programme . |
8 | They all know what you do for a living . ’ |
9 | ‘ 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 . |
10 | Wha what is it that you do for a living ? |
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 | Well , you take that out of the stream , take it home , bake it , powder it and put it in a box ; and you use oils with it the same as you do for the milch . |
16 | How risky in terms of money/reputation is the job you do for the company ? |
17 | ‘ Think we do n't know about the carvings you do for the hospital ? ’ he asked , then smiled at her look of astonishment . |
18 | ‘ What is it you do for the Airds , our friends ? ’ he said desperately . |
19 | Well we do for a swim we 're going to a |
20 | We get the same royalties for a CD as we do for a cassette |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Generally what we do for the engineers that come in [ is ] , we put them up with a senior guy , to go on the system , and bring them up that way … . |
23 | But seriously the work we do for the union is only one part of the equation . |
24 | Middle-age when the fact of death — impermanence , and our own slackening of impetus — is the dominant , the clef changing the notation ; what we do , we do for the n th time . |
25 | yes , and er , that , that 's one of the plants I had given me , yeah I have some lov I have some lovely presents you know really great they are , quite nice at the part we , we have a , the children they , they er have games for the children to start with we do for the grandchildren you see and then er we have the dancing and the erm disco , it was great , we have a lovely party every October we have and I have all my friends we had about a hundred and eighty this year I think , must of been |
26 | erm The other parts of the job are that we do erm all of the fundamental and much of the applied research which the nation needs , we provide an increasing range of advanced courses in technology for people in industry , and continuing education generally , the number of mature students at all levels is rising , and there are a number of other service functions we do for the community as well as just teaching undergraduates . |
27 | But nobody is paying for the increasingly large amount of work we do for the childbearing and professional public at large . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Real people with real jobs , not just holidaymakers out to forget what they do for a living . ’ |
30 | If so , a conflict may well arise between the work of the consultants in their capacity as testers of design for the private operators and what they do for the HSE to determine whether the safety case is well established . |