Example sentences of "what [pron] do for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what I do for a living and this is what I enjoy doing . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you any idea what I do for a living , Christine ? ’ |
| 3 | Ian , a 32-year-old salesman , says : ‘ I made a conscious decision to drink low-alcohol lager because entertaining , and therefore drinking , is what I do for a living . |
| 4 | " Plus , " said Lorne , " he 's jealous of what I do for Butch . " |
| 5 | You know it 's er it 's it 's a mystery force , and what I do for one in some way affects the million . |
| 6 | It 's what I do for a living . |
| 7 | Look , this is what I do for |
| 8 | I tell you what I do for jeans , I get them from car boot sales now ! |
| 9 | They all know what you do for a living . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Look , Clive , I do n't like what you do for a living , I do n't like the way you treat girls at parties , I do n't like your taste in shirts and I do n't like the way you look . |
| 11 | After all I promised my Auntie before she died [ Mr Cannon 's wife ] that I 'd take care of him … and he 's a sweet old man , he 's always grateful for what you do for him . ’ |
| 12 | Do for yourself what you do for others . |
| 13 | Social worth in our society is related to the workplace : you are valued by what you do for a job , not what or who you are as a person . |
| 14 | What you do for the first two years is you learn all the theory of being a doctor and you go and you have to between eight of you , learn all about a body you have one body between of you and you learn all about all the muscles and the nerves |
| 15 | It 's at the end of the day what you do for them . |
| 16 | People appreciate what you do for them so much more if you let them do it occasionally . |
| 17 | Like if you are married , and what you do for a living apart from this . |
| 18 | ‘ I was just wondering what you do for a living . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I wonder what you do for a living ? ’ he asked thoughtfully . |
| 20 | What we do for our owners . ’ |
| 21 | Generally what we do for the engineers that come in [ is ] , we put them up with a senior guy , to go on the system , and bring them up that way … . |
| 22 | These procedures should be manag you know part of management consultation , not part of the Dave writes it , if he like says , well that 's what we 'll do for B E S , and then , and then I 'm told , oh , that 's what we do for B E S , I tell staff , and that causes a great deal of unrest in staff . |
| 23 | It will make sure that everyone not only tells our customers what we do for them but also why we do it . |
| 24 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 25 | We were thrilled by her generous gesture in this the Guild 's Centenary Year , not least because the story she tells so well shows that much of what we do for Christian Aid is in the best Guild tradition . |
| 26 | C. If you ask the people on a housing estate what they do for a living — what their occupations are — you probably will get answers like those in the drawing . |
| 27 | A journalist friend of mine is doing an in-depth piece for one of the Sundays on big agents in sport and what they do for their clients . |
| 28 | If so , a conflict may well arise between the work of the consultants in their capacity as testers of design for the private operators and what they do for the HSE to determine whether the safety case is well established . |
| 29 | Real people with real jobs , not just holidaymakers out to forget what they do for a living . ’ |