Example sentences of "and what [pron] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In between , we say , we ‘ play it by ear ’ and what we listen for is the child 's own claim to have its decisions treated as authoritative and to be ready to bear the responsibility . |
| 2 | On occasion , the Minister has criticised the lack of detail in our overall defence expenditure proposals and what we propose for the Territorial Army and the reserve forces . |
| 3 | And what we having for lunch ? |
| 4 | It seems most likely , however , that it was a word like ‘ Teddy Boy ’ or ‘ Mod ’ or ‘ Skinhead ’ which , coming out of the popular culture of working-class London , had been adopted by youths in some localities in order to describe themselves and what they took for their common identity . |
| 5 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 6 | A journalist friend of mine is doing an in-depth piece for one of the Sundays on big agents in sport and what they do for their clients . |
| 7 | If so , a conflict may well arise between the work of the consultants in their capacity as testers of design for the private operators and what they do for the HSE to determine whether the safety case is well established . |
| 8 | Jacobite sentiment had become more widespread by the end of Anne 's reign , and also more distinctively Tory in nature , but it was an attachment to Country ideology , and a deep hostility to the Whigs and Dissenters ( and what they stood for ) , which was its main defining characteristic . |
| 9 | When a sender judges her receiver 's schema to correspond to a significant degree with her own , she need only mention features which are not contained in it ( the time of getting up and what she had for breakfast , for example ) ; other features ( like getting out of bed and getting dressed ) will be assumed to be present by default , unless we are told otherwise . |
| 10 | So I put Lianne 's name down and what she used for her age . |
| 11 | She was afraid he would ask her about herself and to forestall this she asked him to tell her about his training and what he hoped for in the future . |
| 12 | Yet , without doubt , they would have been horrified by Morris Zapp and what he stood for . |
| 13 | He knew who he was and what he stood for , and he was not ashamed of it . |
| 14 | Because the father is the model for the superego and the actual embodiment of authority and the demands of the cultural prohibitions against incest and parricide within the individual 's own family , it is perhaps not surprising that the antagonism towards him and what he stands for need not be limited to such self-evidently anti-social and aggressive tendencies as those revealed in the statistics of crime and violence . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It may take anywhere from two to five or six hours , depending on the wood and the wind and what you had for breakfast and things like that . |
| 18 | The initial dialogue too , includes queries about when you wish to retire and what you require for breakfast . |
| 19 | Like if you are married , and what you do for a living apart from this . |
| 20 | There were sand drifts in the corners , and what I took for lace curtains at the windows turned out to be spider webs . |
| 21 | And what I took for a womb , slowly flaking apart with age . |
| 22 | You know it 's er it 's it 's a mystery force , and what I do for one in some way affects the million . |
| 23 | We would urge you to think about the consequences of what it proposes and what it means for you . |
| 24 | Local government is on the verge of collapse , but who gives a damn on the Conservative Benches about that and what it means for local government services ? |
| 25 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 26 | With the final umbrella of the Charter , which theoretically laid down the principles of the paper and what it stood for , the last bricks were put into the edifice . |
| 27 | reported that , an Environmental Health Officer in North Wales , had requested information about the Institute and what it stood for . |
| 28 | ‘ And what it stands for is definitely not this . ’ |