Example sentences of "[verb] what for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Charles protested that he was always volunteering , they wanted to know what for . |
| 2 | It was a special school , he did n't know what for . |
| 3 | You do n't know what for . ’ |
| 4 | says to Jim what if they get through do you know what for Wembley |
| 5 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 6 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Labs — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 7 | Er Er depends what for . |
| 8 | Can you eat three Shredded What for breakfast and keep them down while reading these ridiculous clichés ? |
| 9 | THE CAPTAIN had had what for ordinary mortals would have been a trying two days . |
| 10 | There is no greater modern illusion , even fraud , than the use of the single term work to cover what for some is , as noted , dreary , painful , socially demeaning and what for others is enjoyable , socially reputable and economically rewarding . |
| 11 | In this last section , we consider what for many , especially working class pupils , has been the consummation or the release from schooling : the labour market . |
| 12 | There were more serious outbreaks in some cities , for example in Detroit — and these reflected what for blacks was the most important of all wartime developments . |
| 13 | Less than a month before the Gold Cup he had produced what for many experts was his best performance ever when bouncing around Kempton Park to win the Racing Post Chase under top weight . |
| 14 | Would it be feasible , I asked myself , to fill what for some time I had thought was a serious gap in British military history , namely a socio-military chronicle of the last hundred years of the army 's mounted arm ? |
| 15 | ‘ She wo n't be getting any you know what for a bit ; |
| 16 | Put into plain English , these are who is doing what for whom , and to whom are they answerable , what assumptions are being made , and in what environment is this happening ? |
| 17 | Yeah but it just st strikes me he 's losing perspective of who 's doing what for who . |
| 18 | When the Tories briefly took control of the council , they implemented current Conservative philosophy — to sell council homes and encourage what for them represents the truest democracy , a property-owning democracy , which is less about one-man-one-vote than every man a home-owner . |
| 19 | But I put it down to a natural wish on Jefferson 's part to protect what for him was a considerable investment in a new club and , if Harley 's new agent had exacted his usual pound , or stone rather , of flesh , a considerable investment in a golf pro . |
| 20 | ‘ Did he mention what for ? ’ |
| 21 | After they had devoured the nuts and drunk the lemonade they discussed who would write what for the Gazette . |
| 22 | which do what for us ? |
| 23 | Two other Section I matches see Schweppes Cup winners North Down entertaining North , with the aim of finishing third in the league to complete what for them has been a fine season . |
| 24 | I thought I wonder what for ? |
| 25 | I wonder what for the |
| 26 | Never mind what for , just do as yer told at once before I change me mind . ’ |
| 27 | erm , so I would come up the town with you if I could think what for |
| 28 | So wrote Mr Avray Tipping in 1918 , persuading the traveller to take the winding road from Shrivenham ( pronounced ‘ Shrinam ’ by the locals ) and to glimpse down its fine avenue of limes heralding what for all the world could be the Petit Trianon plucked from Versailles and set down here in Berkshire . |
| 29 | Hundreds of Trekkies queued for up to three hours to spend what for them was an almost perfect day at the cinema . |
| 30 | But it omits what for members of the RSC may be his most significant contribution . |