Example sentences of "what [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 'll do for you deliberately er if the situation changes between now and a fortnight 's time after you 've sp spoken to your accountant , I 'll probably look at twenty , thirty and forty just to give you an illustration of what the expectations er are by , by putting a sum in there . |
| 2 | You might be surprised to find that it only means an increase in activity of fifteen percent of what you 're currently doing , to achieve something that 's in year three , that you 've got as year three , and you might think , ooh , that 's what I 'll do for year two . |
| 3 | Well we could 've got a second hand one , but I mean what I 'll pay for a second hand one we might as well get |
| 4 | ‘ She says , can you come to coffee and tell her about what I 'll need for school . ’ |
| 5 | With what I 'll get for it , I 'll live like a prince ! |
| 6 | I wonder if she has remembered what I would like for Christmas . |
| 7 | It is in this sense of extension of the basic , restricted theory , that I offer what I would call for the purposes of this discussion , the polytraumatic theory . |
| 8 | Thus I can know what is in the bottom drawer of my desk , or what I shall eat for breakfast tomorrow , by some form of inductive inference from what I have observed or am now observing . |
| 9 | That is what I live for , and what I shall die for ! ’ |
| 10 | Sitting in front of a small baby-frilled dressing-table to put on her make-up — a fascinating procedure — she remembered again to ask what I 'd come for . |
| 11 | What I 'd ask for now er erm is a sort of general rounding up , summing up staring on my left hand side . |
| 12 | ‘ If that can be done by private firms , then that is what I must go for . ’ |
| 13 | Oddly I was uneasy about this , worrying over what I should do for my friends when I got home . |
| 14 | This is n't what I should feel for him . |
| 15 | Is that what I should fight for ? |
| 16 | ‘ Ask not , ’ Carnelian taunted , ‘ what you can do for me , but what I can do for you . ’ |
| 17 | See what I can do for yer . |
| 18 | But perhaps it 's more a question of what I can do for you ? ’ |
| 19 | It 's more what I can do for you . |
| 20 | I 'd like to give you this which spells out clearly my status and what I can do for you , it simply states that I work for |
| 21 | ‘ What I can provide for Kirsty is security and love . |
| 22 | I did The Player for a third of what I can get for films I do n't want to do . |
| 23 | Oh I know what I could do for that . |
| 24 | I wandered in a desultory fashion into the family room which looked dead without the fire blazing and began to wonder what I could make for dinner . |
| 25 | One of them apparently recognised Ranulf and called out honey-phrased invitations as to what she would offer for a silver coin . |
| 26 | Maybe that 's what she would look for when she returned to La Jolla . |
| 27 | Mind you , I 'm not saying as that 's what she 'll get for the asking , and I 'm not saying there 's not many a man as 'll hand over his pay-packet unopened , but there 's enough of the other sort to give us a bit of a breather Thursdays . ’ |
| 28 | what she 'll have for this though , bloody Theodore or something . |
| 29 | As soon as he walked through the door of the rather dark basement flat in the Bayswater Road and heard her explain that Pauline 's boyfriend was ill so she had gone off to his place to see what she could do for him , Freddie wanted to flee . |
| 30 | He urged her to run into the house out of the rain and leave the work to him , but she declined ; the crates were heavy and awkward for one person to handle , and after all it was what she 'd come for . |