Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb -s] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But tossed about by a cruel world , Iris is not the sort of girl who quietly puts up with her destiny — just as the flower beneath which she reads for a moment , while a woman 's revenge wreaks horrible havoc in the final minutes , is not just an ordinary cactus . |
| 2 | Which he knows for a fact she does not spend on the child . |
| 3 | Community education organises two large camps each year for special needs students in addition to class provision which it arranges for a number of specific groups of adults : |
| 4 | And that is why we are so confident IBM — at least at the high levels where policy is made — has n't a clue about the nature of the large systems customers on which it depends for a considerable portion of its revenue and , we believe , more than half its gross profit . |
| 5 | Located in Bilston in the Black Country , Perry Poultry buys oven-ready poultry , which it processes for a prestigious range of customers including Marks & Spencer , Sainsbury 's and Kentucky Fried Chicken ( Perry makes Zingers , Kentucky 's new line of spiced burgers ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm only interested in who she is , an' what she does for a livin' , ’ she said sharply . |
| 7 | Er i she was in the Cheltenh Do you know what she does for a living ? |
| 8 | And how old he is , what he does for a living , how much he 's got in the bank — and probably whether he 's twice divorced with a string of children tucked away somewhere . ’ |
| 9 | " Know what he does for a living ? " |
| 10 | You do n't even know what he does for a living properly ! ’ |
| 11 | Our aim so far has been to show that the " stylistic variant " view of style , which supports the dualist 's conviction that style can be distinguished from message , can lead to a more precise understanding of what it means for a writer to choose this rather than that way of putting things . |