Example sentences of "you [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’ |
| 32 | If you are George Goldner , Curator of Paintings at the Getty Museum , what do you do for a follow-up after you buy a great Rubens ( ‘ Samson destroying the temple ’ , see The Art Newspaper No. 25 , January 1993 , p. 9 ) ? |
| 33 | ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’ he asked . |
| 34 | " What do you do for a living ? " a dealer asked the Sultan . |
| 35 | ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’ |
| 36 | ‘ What do you do for a living ? ’ |
| 37 | ‘ So tell me , Gina Price , what do you do for a living ? ’ |
| 38 | Er and what , what do you do for a , a living ? |
| 39 | If you were , if you were a castratie what would you do for a living ? |
| 40 | What do you do for a living ? |
| 41 | But what could you do for an encore ? |
| 42 | And what do you do for an hour before you have your breakfast ? ’ |
| 43 | ‘ What do you do for an encore ? |
| 44 | If you hope for a better world then maybe if you try hard enough , it can be achieved . |
| 45 | What odds would you give for a Central South winner . |
| 46 | ‘ Why did n't you send for a carriage ? |
| 47 | ABOVE If you stop for a while , by all means allow your dog to join you in the front of the car . |
| 48 | Now you relax for a minute , I wo n't be long . |
| 49 | ‘ If you 're going to be difficult , ’ Adam said , ‘ I suggest that either you wait for a hundred years or agree to reduce the amount payable , by half . ’ |
| 50 | The price you see is the price you pay — even if you wait for a late booking ! |
| 51 | If you wait for a few minutes , and it really can be that long , you might be surprised to discover that Windows un-freezes of its own accord . |
| 52 | If you , if you wait for a report from a salesman , you can wait for a very long time , the only piece of paper he really likes filling in is called an expense sheet . |
| 53 | ( 4 ) If you haven " t already heard , write to the selling agent for full particulars of the sale and parties , etc. ( 5 ) If you act for a seller whose unregistered title deeds are with a bank , building society , etc , write for the deeds , or ( if they are not clients of yours ) for the name and address of the conveyancers to whom they will be sent , and from whom an abstract can be obtained . |
| 54 | When you act for a buyer , always go through the answers you receive to your preliminary enquiries , search and additional enquiries made of the local authority , marking each of these with a tick if it is satisfactory , or with a cross if it is not , or if it requires further elucidation . |
| 55 | If you act for a mortgagee on such a purchase of unregistered land , you will again need a certified copy of the mortgage document ; so be wise in time and have a spare carbon or print ( if you are using a building society or other printed form ) prepared when engrossing . |
| 56 | If the conveyancer for the lessor refuses to delete it , or if you act for a purchase of an existing lease that includes such a provision , you should always explain to your client the nature of the provision , its unusual nature and its disadvantages ( putting off a subsequent prospective buyer or mortgagee , delay and expense in taking up references and obtaining the licence ) . |
| 57 | Here are some points on this agenda when you act for a seller , mortgagor or lessor . |
| 58 | In such a case when you act for a building society-mortgagee , therefore , you will hand over an undertaking to the buyer 's conveyancer , undertaking forthwith to redeem the mortgage and to send the redeemed mortgage or ( as the case may be ) LR form 53 to the other side . |
| 59 | As when you act for a seller or mortgagor , add any other documents which suggest themselves as the matter proceeds . |
| 60 | With a registered title , this is normally the only final search you make except when you act for a mortgagee : then a bankruptcy search must be made against the borrower because your title search will not , of course , reveal anything about him or her . |