Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] do for [art] " in BNC.

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1 When confronted with a small garden for the first time , its often difficult to know what to do for the best .
2 Well I do n't know what does for a living or does for a living .
3 I do n't know what to do for the best .
4 We made the cut , but he was so bad-tempered he would n't speak to me , and sometimes I just did n't know what to do for the best .
5 She did n't know what to do for the best .
6 She 'll know what to do for the best . ’
7 I do n't know what to do for the numbers .
8 Do you know what to do for the numbers ?
9 They are the editors , they 're not the sole authors so each chapter has a different author erm and like all books some are stronger than others but what I would like you to do for the next , by the time we meet next time , that 's on Monday the next lecture , please have read chapters one and two of that book .
10 Our connection for the prison camp did not leave until 11 o'clock and the Feldwebel was wondering what to do for the next two hours when the air raid siren blew .
11 On the way home he said , ‘ These sincere men think they know what to do for the black man .
12 Yeah she had it , she was just going into theatre at the end of the programme , she was having it done for the fourth time
13 She 'll tell me , all right , and then we can go from there and decide what to do for the best .
14 ‘ Elizabeth ’ I got out and , suddenly emboldened , ‘ Like our great queen ’ I added , hoping I had guessed the correct period , thought it did for the present as a well .
15 Yes , it had not been easy knowing what to do for the best .
16 She became depressed at not knowing what to do for the best , and at leading the life of a whore .
17 Just vanish , leaving her not knowing what to do for the best .
18 ‘ For once , not Rosemary , though I 'm getting more and more desperate about not knowing what to do for the best , ’ he confessed , but went on to explain , ‘ I spent a lot of time yesterday in realising that I must have been a real wet blanket when Naylor announced your engagement on Saturday . ’
19 But because he was n't , I worked as hard as I could until dark , about night time , to get them done for the next day .
20 So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them
21 ‘ My qualifications bear scrutiny , ’ Leith answered , ‘ but what do I do for a reference ?
22 What did you do for the BBC competition ?
23 Did you do for the bastard ? ’ he asked as I approached .
24 I think she did for the most part .
25 ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’
26 If you are George Goldner , Curator of Paintings at the Getty Museum , what do you do for a follow-up after you buy a great Rubens ( ‘ Samson destroying the temple ’ , see The Art Newspaper No. 25 , January 1993 , p. 9 ) ?
27 ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’ he asked .
28 " What do you do for a living ? " a dealer asked the Sultan .
29 ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’
30 ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’
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