Example sentences of "what i [vb mod] [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 . |