Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb base] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main good grains on which we depend for an essential part of our daily diet come from plants belonging to the family of grasses and can not be readily digested until the tough outer shells are broken up and , sometimes , removed . |
| 2 | We brought books to Brownies which we read for an hour and we were not allowed to say a word . |
| 3 | I 'll do what I want for a change ! |
| 4 | This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing . |
| 5 | ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's what I do for a living . |
| 8 | And those sturdy thighs of hers are just what you need for a good rumbustious kazatzki . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | Like if you are married , and what you do for a living apart from this . |
| 13 | ‘ I was just wondering what you do for a living . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I wonder what you do for a living ? ’ he asked thoughtfully . |
| 15 | is that er you can go in and you can sit and you can talk to them about what you want for a holiday |
| 16 | Within a long programme you may find a short sequence which contains exactly what you want for a particular lesson . |
| 17 | Now , I 'm a pensioner , and I think it 's a scandal what we get for a pension after all the years that you , you fight for you , you put away for your old age , and before you know it you 've nothing ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I ca n't remember what I ca n't remember what they charge , it is on that bill what they charge for a Saturday . |
| 20 | They do n't set their own terms about what they expect for a good quality of life , so other people do it for them and we do a bad job of it . ’ |
| 21 | Landowners ca n't do exactly what they want for a start , and if they intend to do anything which might damage the site they have to inform the Nature Conservancy Council in writing and try to work out a compromise . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Real people with real jobs , not just holidaymakers out to forget what they do for a living . ’ |