Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] what [pron] 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 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 .
8 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 .
9 You 've said time and again you 're only here for what you can get . ’
10 Well from what I can gather the cheaper one on Fishergate is a bus stop size one .
11 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 .
12 PLEASE THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN DO .
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