Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no school sports and no athletics , just football , and that is what I played for the rest of the time I was there . |
| 2 | And what I took for a womb , slowly flaking apart with age . |
| 3 | Occasionally he translated what I said for the benefit of the other two . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I wonder what she wore for the theatre date with David ? |
| 6 | Do you know what she did for a living ? |
| 7 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |
| 8 | But us there was there was mainly was also er living was er the eggs paid for what you bought for the shop . |
| 9 | ‘ You told them what you did for a living ? ’ |
| 10 | Then turning to them , she exclaimed , ‘ You never told me what you wanted for the hats ? ’ |
| 11 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 12 | Oh I know what we used for the board . |
| 13 | In small group discussions , happily married men with children clearly saw fidelity as part of their lives ; although not immune to other women 's charms , they were not prepared to jeopardize what they had for the sake of a night of passion . |
| 14 | If individual purchasers want to reveal what they paid for a company , it is a matter for them . |
| 15 | But love was what he felt for the stranger who 'd thrust herself upon him . |
| 16 | Gabriel sold all his farm tools to pay what he owed for the sheep . |
| 17 | When he spoke to her she could scarcely hear what he said for the thudding of her lovesick heart and the chattering of her teeth . |
| 18 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 19 | Thus when Clarkson spoke movingly to the gathered World Convention of 1840 he was intended to symbolise continuity and provide in what he stood for a unifying focus . |
| 20 | That was what he did for a living and it stayed with him all his life . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It drew to an end in April 1964 with Mr Mandela 's four-hour speech from the dock , in which he defended the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe and said he had done what he did for the ideal of a free and democratic society , ‘ an ideal for which I am prepared to die ’ . |
| 25 | And those who worked with him on ecumenical committees knew that this was nothing like so rigid an Anglo-Catholic as sometimes he was portrayed ; and remembered what he did for the Methodists and other non-Anglicans in Durham . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that there is much to be commended in general in his decision to reduce the infantry battalions by only 12 , 13 or 14 per cent. , which is a great deal better than what he did for the Regular Army ? |
| 27 | In 1974 , he decided that none of the developmental systems being studied really gave him what he needed for a study of development . |
| 28 | " He will share your bed and possess your body , " Maria Candida had said when asked what it meant for a woman to give herself to her husband . |
| 29 | Remember that what you think a word means is not necessarily what it meant for the writer . |