Example sentences of "[verb] for [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to wait for what seemed like hours . |
| 2 | The extra resources available from the uprated grant and loan more than compensate for what the majority of students could have claimed . |
| 3 | Nicknamed the Dottore sottile ( " subtle doctor " ) , he had become reconciled in the 1980s with Craxi , whom he had previously criticized for what he regarded as his autocratic attitudes . |
| 4 | At the time , his letter was criticized for what one Gaullist called its " artificial optimism " . |
| 5 | The Festival Court has a different activity taking place each day , while the Centre and surrounding ‘ competition ’ courts will see the best women players from 56 nations competing for what is the premier team prize in women 's tennis . |
| 6 | Although the details of the prescriptions advanced in each case may vary , there is some similarity in the nature of the diagnosis which each offers for what it is that currently afflicts our ailing body politic . |
| 7 | Second , related to the first and to the awareness of being in their own skin , they learn that it is proper and effective to signal for what they need . |
| 8 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 9 | ‘ I was being punished for what my mother did … |
| 10 | I think it 's to make us realise that you get punished for what you do , but it does n't 20 work like that . |
| 11 | ‘ Why should I be punished for what Jason Prior 's tried to do to me — ? ’ |
| 12 | It seems to be the families that are being punished for what has happened . |
| 13 | ‘ I join the martyrs , punished for what I believe . |
| 14 | On January his seclusion was broken for what is called a " photo opportunity " at king Hassans winter palace outside Marrakesh . |
| 15 | ‘ I got my chemistry degree and like everybody else I applied for whatever jobs were going at the time . |
| 16 | Roy Green , software field operations manager for the British firm , Systime , believes that India 's best bet for expansion is to go for what is called systems software : programs that run the computers themselves . |
| 17 | Many people feel afraid to say that they are angry and show it , and end up apologising for what they are going to say , for example , ‘ I hope you do n't mind me saying this but … ’ rather than ‘ I feel disappointed/ angry/taken for granted/cross . ’ |
| 18 | Long into the night he sobbed , weeping for what he had lost , and for what he had become . |
| 19 | However , it remains to be seen how firm Galatasaray 's interest is and whether Nevin would want to uproot for what would be a journey , albeit a lucrative one , into the unknown . |
| 20 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
| 21 | A contracting party can stipulate for what consideration he chooses . |
| 22 | Turn your print on the ‘ splash back ’ 90 degrees and repeat for what becomes the bottom border each time . |
| 23 | Turn your print on the ‘ splash back ’ 90 degrees and repeat for what becomes the bottom border each time . |
| 24 | This sounds well on the B flat instrument , but must have been even more thrilling on the F trumpet for which it was written . |
| 25 | This sort of evidence should be carefully examined for what it is worth . |
| 26 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 27 | The older ones find it harder … and they still fear for what remain of their familes , they do n't want to be identified in case of Serbian reprisals . |
| 28 | I lay for what seemed hours on the bed , sustained only by cups of tea brought by an auxiliary nurse . |
| 29 | We are told who sits for what , where , what our majorities are and the swing needed to return us to the real word and gainful occupation . |
| 30 | None the less , he proved to be a left-hand bat of the highest possible calibre , and a character much respected as well as affectionately regarded for what John Arlott called his ‘ pin-toed toddle ’ . |