Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] did for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Newport asked Richard to teach in his place , which he did for a few months . |
| 2 | When Ken thereupon resigned , however , William appealed to him to remain , which he did for a further year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Do you know what she did for a living ? |
| 5 | ‘ You told them what you did for a living ? ’ |
| 6 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |