Example sentences of "be what [pers pn] [vb base] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A popular shift for returning district nurses is the twilight shift — assisting patients into or out of bed — although this may not be what you want for the rest of your life . |
| 2 | It 's what they go for , I suppose . |
| 3 | If that 's what they want for me , Benny asked herself , why on God 's earth are they allowing me to go to university ? |
| 4 | I like to keep the crowd happy because that 's what they pay for . ’ |
| 5 | And that 's what we use for electronic circuits . |
| 6 | And that 's what we pay for and that 's , when you want to work out how much a fan heater uses and you know , how long was it on for ? |
| 7 | These procedures should be manag you know part of management consultation , not part of the Dave writes it , if he like says , well that 's what we 'll do for B E S , and then , and then I 'm told , oh , that 's what we do for B E S , I tell staff , and that causes a great deal of unrest in staff . |
| 8 | Oh that 's what we have for breakfast . |
| 9 | I 've got a laser printer yeah so I mean that 's what I use for my business . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you on a booze-up or what ? he asked belligerently. ‘ that 's what I get for coming to see you and your mother in bed with the flu , ’ his father protested indignantly . |
| 11 | That 's what I want for Neil . |
| 12 | That 's what I want for Aaron for his room |
| 13 | It 's what I expect for you to be able to work , really hard , get your homework done , work hard in your exams , I expect you to go to college . |
| 14 | It 's what I do for a living . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's what you get for sticking your dick in a plug socket . ’ |
| 16 | That 's what you get for buying your jewellery from a bubble gum machine . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's what you get for flying antiques , ’ he said unsympathetically . |
| 18 | The solos still grate , but at least you can get the beers in at this point without fear of missing anything serious — although Hammett has included an axe-trashing coda to his widdly-widdly section ; that 's what you get for hanging out with Nirvana . |
| 19 | " That 's what you get for being public-spirited . " |
| 20 | That 's what you use for that , to make the bacon brown , you know , yeah . |
| 21 | That 's what you look for , you see , you look for corcus races really and while conflict is perfectly real , and no question of that , but it tremendously easily becomes pathological and gets out of hand and a good deal of social organization consists really and how do you erm in a sense how do you keep people and societies from falling over these cliffs ? |
| 22 | That 's what you pray for . |
| 23 | If that 's what you want for the museum . |
| 24 | because that 's what you need for overtaking someone . |
| 25 | Yes well I think I told him a wrong , you see , there were two there there are two ways of tackling it and I do n't think the way I told him is what they want for the examination purposes , at all ! |
| 26 | Third , a switch by car drivers to cycling , which is what we campaign for , would clearly benefit the majority of NFC employees by reducing car-induced congestion . |
| 27 | eh what she needs is what we need for the summer weather Connie , my brother is |
| 28 | What we 've got ta decide is what we want for the , the C E D G I thing . |
| 29 | the OBJECT is the TOPIC in sentence 3 : " The meat is what I cut for mother " . |
| 30 | That is what I live for , and what I shall die for ! ’ |