Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] for " in BNC.
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1 | That 's what everyone applying for that job will pitch . |
2 | Bigger , better and faster was what everyone strove for , and the latter part of the war saw the early jet fighters enter the fray . |
3 | Look what I got for mother . |
4 | Daddy guess what I got for us ? |
5 | Sometimes I get sick when I see what I fought for , ’ Moran said . |
6 | ‘ He still made tremendous efforts , but he could never get up the courage to criticise what I was doing , which was what I longed for , ’ says Richard . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ 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 . |
11 | I would like to know what I get for that . |
12 | This is not what I bargained for . |
13 | There were no school sports and no athletics , just football , and that is what I played for the rest of the time I was there . |
14 | Du n no what I fancy for my lunch . |
15 | There were sand drifts in the corners , and what I took for lace curtains at the windows turned out to be spider webs . |
16 | And what I took for a womb , slowly flaking apart with age . |
17 | Interests I ca n't remember what I put for my interests , now . |
18 | I 've got a laser printer yeah so I mean that 's what I use for my business . |
19 | I have got what I asked for and that is a sufficient ‘ benefit . ’ |
20 | I , I mean my five hundred pound limit on Marks was what I asked for . |
21 | the OBJECT is the TOPIC in sentence 3 : " The meat is what I cut for mother " . |
22 | But now I 've got what I came for , so I 'll be going . ’ |
23 | ‘ I 've done what I came for , ’ she declared , marching out of the house . |
24 | But it 's not what I came for . ’ |
25 | What I came for was , I brought that letter you were talking about . ’ |
26 | I said well that 's what I came for . |
27 | He thought that was what I came for and , in a way , I suppose he was right . |
28 | ‘ That 's really what I came for . ’ |
29 | ‘ I met new clients which is what I went for . ’ |
30 | A guess about what I went for ? ’ |