Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] 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 | I 'll do what I want for a change ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing . |
| 7 | ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's what I do for a living . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm only interested in who she is , an' what she does for a livin' , ’ she said sharply . |
| 11 | Er i she was in the Cheltenh Do you know what she does for a living ? |
| 12 | I wonder what she wore for the theatre date with David ? |
| 13 | Do you know what she did for a living ? |
| 14 | To the cost to Britain of membership of the EEC on her trade account must be added what she pays for the Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP ) . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Yet the final equation of what you can afford to spend on a new car is likely to be influenced by what you get for the old one . |
| 17 | But us there was there was mainly was also er living was er the eggs paid for what you bought for the shop . |
| 18 | so , so lust is what you feel for the wrong one ? |
| 19 | And those sturdy thighs of hers are just what you need for a good rumbustious kazatzki . |
| 20 | Just take a small bag with what you need for the night and a warm pullover and leave the key to your door with your next-door neighbours . ’ |
| 21 | They all know what you do for a living . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Like if you are married , and what you do for a living apart from this . |
| 25 | ‘ I was just wondering what you do for a living . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I wonder what you do for a living ? ’ he asked thoughtfully . |
| 27 | What you do for the first two years is you learn all the theory of being a doctor and you go and you have to between eight of you , learn all about a body you have one body between of you and you learn all about all the muscles and the nerves |
| 28 | is that er you can go in and you can sit and you can talk to them about what you want for a holiday |
| 29 | Within a long programme you may find a short sequence which contains exactly what you want for a particular lesson . |
| 30 | If that 's what you want for the museum . |