Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 2 | She came back with what I 'd asked for . |
| 3 | ‘ I was so angry I started to cry , but the stylist insisted it was what I 'd asked for . |
| 4 | Ellen Jebeau brought her lips tightly together and drew them inwards between her teeth before she said , with deep bitterness , ‘ I do n't know about it being a time for plain speaking , I can only say that time has shown your ingratitude for what I 've done for you over the years . ’ |
| 5 | What I 've done for this ----ing . |
| 6 | When I think what I 've done for that boy . |
| 7 | She said quickly , ‘ Would you like me to go through what I 've done for you ? ’ |
| 8 | When you go back to your cottage , you 'll see what I 've done for you . ’ |
| 9 | I said no , she said you wo n't leave the union will you , I said no , she said alright we 'll buy one at Haydock , still in the Lancashire region and the reason why the union is my second love , obviously my first love is me family , is what it 's done for me , but I also think what I 've done for those people who represent me and yourselves in Parliament . |
| 10 | Come home and see what you 've done , what I 've done for you . ’ |
| 11 | Now , generally speaking wi I I I 've act what I 've done for the re-sit paper is that I I pooled a load of questions , some of which went to the first paper and some of which went to the ne and some of which went to the re-sit paper so I do n't know which topics are coming up erm on the re-sit paper . |
| 12 | Do you like that , what I 've done for our |
| 13 | which is what I 've done for something else and what we simply did was to take an A 4 landscape sheet erm and carve a syllabus over I think that was sixteen or eighteen weeks or something up , and divide it into you know units of competence , elements of competence and the assignments and the homework |
| 14 | Do you know I 've just realized that your curtains are nearly like what I 've ordered for the bedroom . |
| 15 | Now come and see what I 've got for you . " |
| 16 | ‘ You can because of what I 've got for you . ’ |
| 17 | And what I 've got for you is worth every bit of inconvenience . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Come and see what I 've brought for you , ’ was his greeting . |
| 19 | ‘ I think you know what I 've come for . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ As soon as I 've told you what I 've come for , I promise you can throw me out . ’ |
| 21 | This is what I undertake to do for you , reader . |
| 22 | What I had mistaken for affectation was nothing but concentration . |
| 23 | Then you walked into my life , and I suddenly realised that what I had felt for Claire may have been sexual attraction , but it was never love . ’ |
| 24 | She must have briefly feared what I had hoped for . |
| 25 | As before , a guard accompanied me to the barracks ; but this time , on the way back , we met two officers : it was exactly what I had hoped for . |
| 26 | However , what I had hoped for did happen ; people came away from the workshop with a desire to see how they could use the experience and the insight they had gained within their own establishments . |
| 27 | He asked me in German what I had come for but I said ; untruthfully , ‘ Nicht verstehen . ’ |
| 28 | Do n't you think it 's time I was allowed to decide what I want to wear for myself ? ’ |
| 29 | This conditioning idea , absent in the that-clause construction , is what I believe accounts for the less factual tone of the infinitival structure : explicitly evoking one 's knowledge as the condition allowing one to assert something ( rather than flatly stating one 's awareness of a fact ) tends to suggest that what one is saying is a personal opinion rather than a matter of objective fact . |
| 30 | Whenever in relation to a loved person , idealized place or personal indulgence I find myself pushing out of mind some disagreeable thought , its relevance ( as distinct from its importance ) is not in doubt ; it is enough that it does spontaneously move me against what I have decided for . |