Example sentences of "you [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He practically invited you to go for a ride in his car . |
| 2 | A win or a loss could affect how well you lived for a day or two . |
| 3 | ‘ You mean for a holiday ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You mean for a consultation about Edwin 's health ? ’ |
| 5 | At the meeting of the Transportation Committee on 5 October 1992 you asked for a report on bus services in the Kirknewton area . |
| 6 | mm What do you want for a sweet ? |
| 7 | The effect is to make you think for a second that the church is only half there , that there must once have been a second side to it , to the right of the tower . |
| 8 | Do n't you think for a rock'n'roll band it is somewhat stupid to promote this government idea , especially here in Belgium ? ’ |
| 9 | In the former case the creditor can reply to the debtor , ‘ you owe me more than this , and if you sue for a return of this , I shall set off my larger claim against it . ’ |
| 10 | is that er you can go in and you can sit and you can talk to them about what you want for a holiday |
| 11 | And how do you know for a fact that they intend to bring these sorts of techniques in to Britain ? |
| 12 | What do you need for a croquet club ? |
| 13 | It is almost summer , high time you decamped for a fortnight . |
| 14 | If you are George Goldner , Curator of Paintings at the Getty Museum , what do you do for a follow-up after you buy a great Rubens ( ‘ Samson destroying the temple ’ , see The Art Newspaper No. 25 , January 1993 , p. 9 ) ? |
| 15 | ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’ he asked . |
| 17 | " What do you do for a living ? " a dealer asked the Sultan . |
| 18 | ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So tell me , Gina Price , what do you do for a living ? ’ |
| 21 | If you were , if you were a castratie what would you do for a living ? |
| 22 | What do you do for a living ? |
| 23 | ‘ Why did n't you send for a carriage ? |
| 24 | ABOVE If you stop for a while , by all means allow your dog to join you in the front of the car . |
| 25 | Now you relax for a minute , I wo n't be long . |
| 26 | If you , if you wait for a report from a salesman , you can wait for a very long time , the only piece of paper he really likes filling in is called an expense sheet . |
| 27 | When you act for a buyer , always go through the answers you receive to your preliminary enquiries , search and additional enquiries made of the local authority , marking each of these with a tick if it is satisfactory , or with a cross if it is not , or if it requires further elucidation . |
| 28 | If you act for a mortgagee on such a purchase of unregistered land , you will again need a certified copy of the mortgage document ; so be wise in time and have a spare carbon or print ( if you are using a building society or other printed form ) prepared when engrossing . |
| 29 | With a registered title , this is normally the only final search you make except when you act for a mortgagee : then a bankruptcy search must be made against the borrower because your title search will not , of course , reveal anything about him or her . |
| 30 | In the case of a registered title there 's one occasion , as mentioned above , when you make a land charges search , and that 's when you act for a mortgagee . |