Example sentences of "what he [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bottle of what he took for whisky and four of beer . |
| 2 | You give me anyone 's phone line and mail for a month and I 'll tell you exactly who he is , how old he is , his likes and dislikes , his character , his worries , what he had for breakfast and supper , what time he wakes up . |
| 3 | They know what he had for breakfast ’ . |
| 4 | But about himself he practically told me what he had for breakfast . |
| 5 | You know what he had for nix ? |
| 6 | What he felt for Petula must be real love , that transcended the sexual titillation he felt for her . |
| 7 | Poppy seeds sprinkled on bread as a flavouring have a disconcerting tendency to react chemically in the same way as the extract of the opium poppy , so that a worker could be mistaken for a heroin user because of what he ate for breakfast . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll be very nervous but I want to ask him what he eats for breakfast . |
| 9 | The mingled exasperation and admiration that Pound felt for Binyon are nowhere so explicit and appealing as in what he wrote for Blast ( July , 1915 ) , so as to introduce into that inappropriately vociferous context nine quotations from the demure prose of Binyon 's The Flight of the Dragon . |
| 10 | When Dr Moses appears in one of George 's hallucinations as Santa Claus , he asks George what he wants for Christmas . |
| 11 | He goes up every year and nicks what he wants for Christmas for the kids . |
| 12 | One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) . |
| 13 | Well I , I , I asked him what he wanted for Christmas |
| 14 | Place was further of the opinion that what he described for London went for the country as a whole . |
| 15 | Can Cantona do for United what he did for Leeds last season , then ? |