Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] what they [vb mod] [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| 2 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
| 3 | It helps if couples can think in advance about what retirement will be like-to think individually about what they 'd like to happen , and even more importantly , to talk to each other about what they 'd like to happen . |
| 4 | Just like what they would do . |
| 5 | People do n't follow through on what they can see , erm and what erm might be there . |
| 6 | She believed that ‘ representation without taxation ’ led to councils gaining support more for what they could promise as spenders rather than save as prudent housekeepers . |
| 7 | Getting on with what you should be doing that can only see a few people doing that who are actually getting on with what they should have been doing while you are waiting . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Autobiographies and interviews , each constrained both by what children could see and also by what they would remember as significant , offer inevitably partial glimpses of the experience of ageing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But my favourites are definitely the ambitious Punjabi boys out for what they can get : |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | They were accordingly satisfied that the trial judge misdirected the jury when he stated that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what they could find proved that he himself did . |
| 14 | 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 . |