Example sentences of "[noun sg] for what [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some cretins like Pybus are only in football for what they can get out of it . |
| 2 | ‘ Maybe if I played with another side I 'd get more recognition for what I can do . |
| 3 | But now , that seems a small compensation for what I would lose . ’ |
| 4 | You had you had no organized sport such as you have today , but you had a football team because there was no need for what you would call sports ground , there was plenty of available open space , park . |
| 5 | It is the same with all new expressions : there is one colour for what the trainees need to understand ( what they will hear ) and another colour for what they will need to use ( what they will say ) . |
| 6 | Minter would n't have paid you a penny for what you might have got out of me . |
| 7 | However , before you go adding vast quantities of fat to your dogs ' food , spare a thought for what it will do to the rest of your diet . |
| 8 | This is the central concern for what we may call the ‘ top-down ’ approach to the study of implementation : why do n't those who are expected to carry out policies do what is required of them ? |
| 9 | His kindness , his honesty , his real care for others will serve me as a model for what one should strive for in life . |
| 10 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |
| 11 | The ex-Soviet Union , the world 's second-largest producer , has been selling its gold for what it would fetch , to pay its bills . |
| 12 | You can sue the solicitor for what you would have collected , had he done his job properly , because the law reckons he owed you , as well as his client , a duty of care . |