Example sentences of "what i [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look what I got for mother . |
| 2 | Daddy guess what I got for us ? |
| 3 | Sometimes I get sick when I see what I fought for , ’ Moran said . |
| 4 | ‘ He still made tremendous efforts , but he could never get up the courage to criticise what I was doing , which was what I longed for , ’ says Richard . |
| 5 | Rather , what I hope for is a linguistic universe in which people will accept that they must consider the alternatives and then make their own choices , instead of relying so heavily on authority — even some hypothetical feminist authority — to tell them what is acceptable or ‘ correct ’ linguistic usage . |
| 6 | I 've met him three or four times when he 's been the compere of things that I 've had some three-minute act on , and we 've seemed to get on together , but he 's not really what I go for . |
| 7 | W what I go for are two major points I think which actually demonstrate the fallaciousness of this budget that has been proposed to us as an amendment . |
| 8 | ‘ Are you on a booze-up or what ? he asked belligerently. ‘ that 's what I get for coming to see you and your mother in bed with the flu , ’ his father protested indignantly . |
| 9 | I would like to know what I get for that . |
| 10 | This is not what I bargained for . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Du n no what I fancy for my lunch . |
| 13 | There were sand drifts in the corners , and what I took for lace curtains at the windows turned out to be spider webs . |
| 14 | And what I took for a womb , slowly flaking apart with age . |
| 15 | Interests I ca n't remember what I put for my interests , now . |
| 16 | I 've got a laser printer yeah so I mean that 's what I use for my business . |
| 17 | I have got what I asked for and that is a sufficient ‘ benefit . ’ |
| 18 | I , I mean my five hundred pound limit on Marks was what I asked for . |
| 19 | the OBJECT is the TOPIC in sentence 3 : " The meat is what I cut for mother " . |
| 20 | But now I 've got what I came for , so I 'll be going . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've done what I came for , ’ she declared , marching out of the house . |
| 22 | But it 's not what I came for . ’ |
| 23 | What I came for was , I brought that letter you were talking about . ’ |
| 24 | I said well that 's what I came for . |
| 25 | He thought that was what I came for and , in a way , I suppose he was right . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's really what I came for . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I met new clients which is what I went for . ’ |
| 28 | A guess about what I went for ? ’ |
| 29 | What I looked for , but only occasionally glimpsed , was the recognition that , though differing frameworks of shared assumptions may be barriers to effective understanding , the rewards can be substantial — if not for what we learn about the alien systems then for what we may discover about our own previously unquestioned beliefs . |
| 30 | He says he has to go bat-fowling for what I take for granted — whatever bat-fowling may be . ’ |