Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb -s] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm only interested in who she is , an' what she does for a livin' , ’ she said sharply . |
| 2 | Er i she was in the Cheltenh Do you know what she does for a living ? |
| 3 | she 's obviously , you know , when you think what she does for you , marvellous ! |
| 4 | Dad says that 's what she gets for being a Baptist . |
| 5 | er Nothing or nobody in England make anything anywhere near to what she needs for her disability . |
| 6 | To the cost to Britain of membership of the EEC on her trade account must be added what she pays for the Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP ) . |
| 7 | What one hopes for is for the student to remain open to the possibility of aesthetic experience , to accept and enjoy it when it occurs , but not to fake responses if it does not . |
| 8 | Location , Sensation , Modalities , Concomitants , That 's what one needs for diagnosis ! |
| 9 | You 'll not be denying what everybody knows for certain ? " |
| 10 | If the promisor gets what he asks for in return for his promise , he has received sufficient consideration and is bound . |
| 11 | His behaviour must match what he says for us to say he has mastered the correct us of the terms he uses , but he does not have to observe his behaviour to be able to say , ‘ I like Auntie Kate . ’ |
| 12 | This is even true , contra Kolve , of what he says for most of his prologue . |
| 13 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 14 | Thompson has never done what he does for anybody but himself . |
| 15 | And how old he is , what he does for a living , how much he 's got in the bank — and probably whether he 's twice divorced with a string of children tucked away somewhere . ’ |
| 16 | " Know what he does for a living ? " |
| 17 | You do n't even know what he does for a living properly ! ’ |
| 18 | Now we 're going to see what he does for the economy , what he does for the underclass , and so on |
| 19 | Now we 're going to see what he does for the economy , what he does for the underclass , and so on |
| 20 | She sat bushy-tailed for the day at a table with two men , one her husband ( ‘ You 'd think I 'd know by now after thirty-eight years what he likes for his breakfast ’ ) , the other a distant cousin , I decided . |
| 21 | What he sues for in each case is loss caused to him by the use of an unlawful weapon against him — intimidation of another person by unlawful means . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll be very nervous but I want to ask him what he eats for breakfast . |
| 23 | The romantic element in adventure stones is one of several processes of selection by which a writer takes from his raw material — from real life , if you like — what he needs for his particular fiction . |
| 24 | In Wolfenstein 's words ( 1955 ) , ‘ What the baby wants for pleasure has thus become as legitimate a demand as what he needs for his physical well-being , and is to be treated in the same way . ’ |
| 25 | It means that we are selling the consumer what he wants for his psyche . |
| 26 | When Dr Moses appears in one of George 's hallucinations as Santa Claus , he asks George what he wants for Christmas . |
| 27 | He 's set up a meeting for tomorrow with his financial boys , and I get the impression he 's very keen , but it 's all down to what he wants for the equity investment and how much I 'm prepared to give him . ’ |
| 28 | He goes up every year and nicks what he wants for Christmas for the kids . |
| 29 | Here the customer always gets exactly what he pays for . ’ |
| 30 | But everything beyond what he pays for and sees himself get is suspicious to him . |