Example sentences of "what you get [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Harking back to The Smiths ' early days , it is another stab at Victorian virtue : ‘ A crack on the head is what you get for asking . ’
2 More simply , a crack on the head is what you get for acting in a perfectly natural manner .
3 ‘ That 's what you get for sticking your dick in a plug socket . ’
4 That 's what you get for buying your jewellery from a bubble gum machine .
5 To discover that just read on and see what you get for your money .
6 CHECK WHAT YOU GET FOR YOUR MONEY .
7 PRS money is what you get for your compositions being played and performed .
8 ‘ That 's what you get for flying antiques , ’ he said unsympathetically .
9 The solos still grate , but at least you can get the beers in at this point without fear of missing anything serious — although Hammett has included an axe-trashing coda to his widdly-widdly section ; that 's what you get for hanging out with Nirvana .
10 The place may seem fairly pricey , but when you see what you get for your money , you wo n't be disappointed .
11 Yet the final equation of what you can afford to spend on a new car is likely to be influenced by what you get for the old one .
12 " That 's what you get for being public-spirited . "
13 Gary Cottrill has been seeing what you get for your money .
14 What you see is what you get at Caister : there are few blind shots unless you wander , but keeping on the straight and narrow is a challenge in the constant breeze .
15 ‘ I 've played on all the big grounds and in front of 52,000 at Old Trafford but nothing 's a patch on what you get at Ibrox . ’
16 If she started being funny saying oh I got honours and you got commended just say yeah let's see what you get at grade three tap then .
17 Some people , some books say , oh take it to twenty two over seven or things like that , but it 's not , and the approx , what you get off your calculator is only correct to however many digits you 've got on your calculator ,
18 So what factors decide what you get under income , income support ?
19 Well that 's the creche what you get into .
20 What you get on death row for is primarily determined by how good or bad your defence lawyers is . ’
21 And they then say well right , cos every time an accountant does your books at the front of your , the actual like er the booklet what you get on your accounts it says at the front something like these accounts have erm have been audited but only erm we have taken the word of Mr that what he said is right .
22 And that 's what you get with the Grange du Pin for £3.55 a bottle .
23 Attention to detail counts for a lot , and attention to detail is what you get with one of Michael Pedulla 's instruments …
24 So what you get with this package is a roomy hatchback with plenty of power on tap , great fun to drive , and better than average handling abilities .
25 What you get from means-tested benefits depends on what your income is .
26 What you get from our work is small things that are very important in becoming part of your life .
27 They looked at each other , then returning their gaze to the far distance there was a silence between them before Mick went on again , ‘ As I see it now , real education is what you get from life : not what life gives you , but what you give to it .
28 So let's try A minus B times A whoops A minus B. See what you get from that .
29 What you get from it is a graph showing a complex pattern of forces .
30 That 's what you get from smoking .
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