Example sentences of "what he be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Wilko is the best we could have possibly gotten in a manager and people ( including me unto recently when I was put right ) are ready to forget what he 's done for the club . |
| 2 | Well , that 's what he 's paid for . |
| 3 | One of the country 's leading experts on the secret services says the evidence confirms what he 's known for some time . |
| 4 | They sat along one wall by unspoken consent , like a school dance : a grey-haired man in a grey anorak with a once-brutal face now cowed by misery into a sort of gentleness ; an Asian couple , he in a leather jacket , resigned , she pretty and solicitous ; another grey-haired man who looked as though defeat was what he was born for ; a bearded man with a red scarf , lips twitching as he rehearsed things to say , things which would not help . |
| 5 | That 's what , that 's what he was made for . |
| 6 | Mr Shove was entitled under his contract to the benefit of a Daimler throughout his notice period and that is what he was compensated for . |
| 7 | Another member of the quintet , one Lyamshin , a post-office clerk , gets himself asked to parties where ‘ he would give imitations of a pig , a thunder storm , a confinement , with the first cry of the baby , etc. , etc. ; that was what he was invited for ’ ; and later we hear of him ‘ mimicking , when requested , various types of jews , a deaf peasant woman making her confession , or the birth of a child … ’ . |
| 8 | She hated what he was trained for . |
| 9 | ‘ He 'll start doing what he was bought for — scoring goals . ’ |
| 10 | He had realised what he was meant for . |