Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what I took for a womb , slowly flaking apart with age . |
| 2 | I 'll do what I want for a change ! |
| 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 | This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing . |
| 5 | ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’ |
| 6 | Ian , a 32-year-old salesman , says : ‘ I made a conscious decision to drink low-alcohol lager because entertaining , and therefore drinking , is what I do for a living . |
| 7 | It 's what I do for a living . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm only interested in who she is , an' what she does for a livin' , ’ she said sharply . |
| 9 | Er i she was in the Cheltenh Do you know what she does for a living ? |
| 10 | Do you know what she did for a living ? |
| 11 | And those sturdy thighs of hers are just what you need for a good rumbustious kazatzki . |
| 12 | They all know what you do for a living . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Look , Clive , I do n't like what you do for a living , I do n't like the way you treat girls at parties , I do n't like your taste in shirts and I do n't like the way you look . |
| 14 | Social worth in our society is related to the workplace : you are valued by what you do for a job , not what or who you are as a person . |
| 15 | Like if you are married , and what you do for a living apart from this . |
| 16 | ‘ I was just wondering what you do for a living . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I wonder what you do for a living ? ’ he asked thoughtfully . |
| 18 | is that er you can go in and you can sit and you can talk to them about what you want for a holiday |
| 19 | Within a long programme you may find a short sequence which contains exactly what you want for a particular lesson . |
| 20 | ‘ You told them what you did for a living ? ’ |
| 21 | Now , I 'm a pensioner , and I think it 's a scandal what we get for a pension after all the years that you , you fight for you , you put away for your old age , and before you know it you 've nothing ! |
| 22 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 23 | I ca n't remember what I ca n't remember what they charge , it is on that bill what they charge for a Saturday . |
| 24 | They do n't set their own terms about what they expect for a good quality of life , so other people do it for them and we do a bad job of it . ’ |
| 25 | If individual purchasers want to reveal what they paid for a company , it is a matter for them . |
| 26 | Landowners ca n't do exactly what they want for a start , and if they intend to do anything which might damage the site they have to inform the Nature Conservancy Council in writing and try to work out a compromise . |
| 27 | C. If you ask the people on a housing estate what they do for a living — what their occupations are — you probably will get answers like those in the drawing . |
| 28 | Real people with real jobs , not just holidaymakers out to forget what they do for a living . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | " Know what he does for a living ? " |