Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb base] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll do what I want for a change ! |
| 2 | This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing . |
| 3 | ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's what I do for a living . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | so , so lust is what you feel for the wrong one ? |
| 8 | And those sturdy thighs of hers are just what you need for a good rumbustious kazatzki . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | They all know what you do for a living . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Like if you are married , and what you do for a living apart from this . |
| 14 | ‘ I was just wondering what you do for a living . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I wonder what you do for a living ? ’ he asked thoughtfully . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | is that er you can go in and you can sit and you can talk to them about what you want for a holiday |
| 18 | Within a long programme you may find a short sequence which contains exactly what you want for a particular lesson . |
| 19 | If that 's what you want for the museum . |
| 20 | A popular shift for returning district nurses is the twilight shift — assisting patients into or out of bed — although this may not be what you want for the rest of your life . |
| 21 | ‘ It appears that you are willing to sacrifice what you want for the good of others , ’ he said softly . |
| 22 | What you want for the |
| 23 | Is this wha what you want for the future ? |
| 24 | Now , I 'm a pensioner , and I think it 's a scandal what we get for a pension after all the years that you , you fight for you , you put away for your old age , and before you know it you 've nothing ! |
| 25 | Erm what we get for the money , and erm where there are possibilities for us to consider reducing that overhead . |
| 26 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 27 | Generally what we do for the engineers that come in [ is ] , we put them up with a senior guy , to go on the system , and bring them up that way … . |
| 28 | What we 've got ta decide is what we want for the , the C E D G I thing . |
| 29 | I think we need to say , okay , in the future , what are we , the town , gon na do , to make this building right for what we want for the town . |
| 30 | So what we do is erm your your cursor must be in the table somewhere , so you then go up to table , select table , then you 've got to format , border , and grid so we want the grid lines to show then in fact you can chose what we want for the outside border one of these Right , okay Now what I want you to do is set the questions , right ? |