Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb past] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look what I got for mother . |
| 2 | There were sand drifts in the corners , and what I took for lace curtains at the windows turned out to be spider webs . |
| 3 | Wine , grapes , bulls and lots and lots of sun , that 's what I had for Christmas , General . ’ |
| 4 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When I asked her what she wanted for Christmas she said things that her seven-year-old brother Simon could have . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Do n't just count ; tell them how you got to the studio or what you had for breakfast . |
| 9 | What you got for Christmas Day ? |
| 10 | It was what we said for convenience ; there was no concept in Egypt of unmarried couples . |
| 11 | Neither my sister nor I can remember exactly what we had for dinner , but we chose not merely a good cheese but a claret of which we hoped he would approve . |
| 12 | I often think how she would despise me when I am driven by curiosities to ask the children what they had for lunch when they were invited out . |
| 13 | We knew what they had for lunch . |
| 14 | And basically they ha and the other thing , right , I found out what they had for dinner the other night right ? |
| 15 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 16 | ‘ That was a very important meeting as I gained an understanding of what they wanted for rugby to be unified . |
| 17 | Margaret was in the Air Force for some years but I could n't say what they did for work . |
| 18 | crash , bang , wallop , gone what they did for work today a little bit of exercise , desk work a lot of exercise , exercise . |
| 19 | A bottle of what he took for whisky and four of beer . |
| 20 | You give me anyone 's phone line and mail for a month and I 'll tell you exactly who he is , how old he is , his likes and dislikes , his character , his worries , what he had for breakfast and supper , what time he wakes up . |
| 21 | They know what he had for breakfast ’ . |
| 22 | But about himself he practically told me what he had for breakfast . |
| 23 | You know what he had for nix ? |
| 24 | Poppy seeds sprinkled on bread as a flavouring have a disconcerting tendency to react chemically in the same way as the extract of the opium poppy , so that a worker could be mistaken for a heroin user because of what he ate for breakfast . |
| 25 | The mingled exasperation and admiration that Pound felt for Binyon are nowhere so explicit and appealing as in what he wrote for Blast ( July , 1915 ) , so as to introduce into that inappropriately vociferous context nine quotations from the demure prose of Binyon 's The Flight of the Dragon . |
| 26 | One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) . |
| 27 | Well I , I , I asked him what he wanted for Christmas |