Example sentences of "be [Wh det] [pron] [verb] for " in BNC.

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31 That 's what I want for Aaron for his room
32 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 .
33 It 's what I used for all that weird Eno-esque synth stuff over Morrissey 's Last Of The Famous International Playboys single .
34 It 's what I do for a living .
35 ‘ Vodka and orange juice — that 's what you asked for , was n't it ?
36 ‘ That 's what you get for sticking your dick in a plug socket . ’
37 That 's what you get for buying your jewellery from a bubble gum machine .
38 ‘ That 's what you get for flying antiques , ’ he said unsympathetically .
39 The solos still grate , but at least you can get the beers in at this point without fear of missing anything serious — although Hammett has included an axe-trashing coda to his widdly-widdly section ; that 's what you get for hanging out with Nirvana .
40 " That 's what you get for being public-spirited . "
41 That 's what you use for that , to make the bacon brown , you know , yeah .
42 That 's what you look for , you see , you look for corcus races really and while conflict is perfectly real , and no question of that , but it tremendously easily becomes pathological and gets out of hand and a good deal of social organization consists really and how do you erm in a sense how do you keep people and societies from falling over these cliffs ?
43 That 's what you pray for .
44 If that 's what you want for the museum .
45 because that 's what you need for overtaking someone .
46 This is what they did for Mrs W and her children .
47 Yes well I think I told him a wrong , you see , there were two there there are two ways of tackling it and I do n't think the way I told him is what they want for the examination purposes , at all !
48 Third , a switch by car drivers to cycling , which is what we campaign for , would clearly benefit the majority of NFC employees by reducing car-induced congestion .
49 ‘ Tell the laird , ’ he shouted out , ‘ that we will have him out here , to hear us for himself — that is what we came for and we will stand here till we see him .
50 ‘ And that is what we came for , in fact . ’
51 eh what she needs is what we need for the summer weather Connie , my brother is
52 What we 've got ta decide is what we want for the , the C E D G I thing .
53 That is what we started for . ’
54 At least that is what it does for me !
55 That is what it stands for and that is what the Bill embodies .
56 The important point is what it means for the settlement to the environment of North Yorkshire .
57 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 .
58 ‘ I met new clients which is what I went for . ’
59 the OBJECT is the TOPIC in sentence 3 : " The meat is what I cut for mother " .
60 That is what I live for , and what I shall die for ! ’
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