Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb base] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , what I hope for is a linguistic universe in which people will accept that they must consider the alternatives and then make their own choices , instead of relying so heavily on authority — even some hypothetical feminist authority — to tell them what is acceptable or ‘ correct ’ linguistic usage . |
| 2 | I 've met him three or four times when he 's been the compere of things that I 've had some three-minute act on , and we 've seemed to get on together , but he 's not really what I go for . |
| 3 | W what I go for are two major points I think which actually demonstrate the fallaciousness of this budget that has been proposed to us as an amendment . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you on a booze-up or what ? he asked belligerently. ‘ that 's what I get for coming to see you and your mother in bed with the flu , ’ his father protested indignantly . |
| 5 | I would like to know what I get for that . |
| 6 | Du n no what I fancy for my lunch . |
| 7 | Interests I ca n't remember what I put for my interests , now . |
| 8 | I 've got a laser printer yeah so I mean that 's what I use for my business . |
| 9 | the OBJECT is the TOPIC in sentence 3 : " The meat is what I cut for mother " . |
| 10 | He says he has to go bat-fowling for what I take for granted — whatever bat-fowling may be . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Smith seems determined to tell me what I want for Roy Aitken , when in fact he has never asked me . |
| 12 | Now , she thought , now Edouard will have what I know he wants so desperately , what I want for him . |
| 13 | Already the ‘ What I want for Christmas ’ letters are pouring into Mr Brooke , although the goodies ( we do n't know for certain what they will amount to — that would spoil the surprise — but if we are lucky they may amount to £36 million per sector ) will not be dispensed for two years at least . |
| 14 | Indeed as you watch drama on television you often think " That 's just what I want for tomorrow 's lesson . " |
| 15 | Mostly my father just gives me the money that I ask for and lets me get what I want for myself . |
| 16 | I 'll do what I want for a change ! |
| 17 | That 's what I want for Neil . |
| 18 | Yeah well what I want for Jonathan 's bedroom , you can buy them . |
| 19 | That 's what I want for Aaron for his room |
| 20 | Guess what I want for next year ? |
| 21 | Please support me in the election — you know what I stand for . ’ |
| 22 | That is what I live for , and what I shall die for ! ’ |
| 23 | It 's what I expect for you to be able to work , really hard , get your homework done , work hard in your exams , I expect you to go to college . |
| 24 | All the most lovely words of love and passion could not express one tenth of what I feel for you . |
| 25 | I know that I 'm being unfair to you and to Virginia , but what I feel for you — what I have always felt for you — has made a weakling of me . " |
| 26 | I 've known for months that … that what I feel for you is special , very special . |
| 27 | ‘ It is so very different from what I feel for Anthony . |
| 28 | I do n't ever want you to think that what I feel for you is a response to — ‘ |
| 29 | ‘ What I feel for you is different . ’ |
| 30 | This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing . |