Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] what [pers pn] can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , although I 'm not so bitchy as to suggest women want him only for what they can get , nine times out of ten it 's probably the truth . ’ |
| 2 | Good only for what it can do . |
| 3 | The educated person is characterised less by what she can do , and more by what the process of learning and knowing has done to her . |
| 4 | I can not keep her any longer for what she can afford to pay , and she would like you to find her accommodation near where you live . |
| 5 | So erm I 'm hoping to be able to do it , just off what I can do , m my experience as it is like . |
| 6 | it 's more obvious to the audience how , like , Tony 's just after what he can get sort of thing . |
| 7 | People do n't follow through on what they can see , erm and what erm might be there . |
| 8 | The headteacher say , ‘ Evidence showed that our community did value the work we do , that they want to know more about what we can offer and that they want to play an active part in their children 's pre-school experience . |
| 9 | There is a similar relationship between the individual and his surroundings which is suggested in a psychologist 's perceptive formulation of the position : ‘ Part of the intangible boundary of the self is marked off by what we can control . |
| 10 | It is also considering what it can do to meet the demand for more information by such measures as explanatory videos , evening classes or workplace clinics . |
| 11 | With an inconvenient house and stuck out on that headland with nothing to look at but a ruined abbey and that atomic power station they 'll have to put up with what they can get . ’ |
| 12 | Such a system stresses economic self-interest as all-important , rather than community spirit , public duty and so on ; everybody is out for what they can get . |
| 13 | But my favourites are definitely the ambitious Punjabi boys out for what they can get : |
| 14 | She attested in September 1939 that ‘ universally , householders have been shocked at the disgraceful and disgusting conditions in which a certain portion of the population lives ’ , and that ‘ the low slum type form the majority of the mothers , some out for what they can get , most of them dirty , many of them idle and unwilling to work or pull their weight ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ You think he 's out for what he can get ? ’ |
| 16 | You 've said time and again you 're only here for what you can get . ’ |
| 17 | Well from what I can gather the cheaper one on Fishergate is a bus stop size one . |
| 18 | She does , but she does n't know how from what I can make out , she does n't know how long , much longer is going to stick at Reading or she 's going to do her usual , stick at something for two , two months . |
| 19 | You know it 's possible , and we use that word love , it 's not really love , so we 'll love somebody else for what they can get out of them , course do that 's an undervalue of the word love , it 's a , it 's it 's it 's a , it 's it 's making the word totally ineffectual . |
| 20 | Right , so now we 've got round to what we can do for the casualty , let's have a look and see what the body 's trying to do here and then we 'll say how you 'll help them a bit more . |
| 21 | PLEASE THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN DO . |