Example sentences of "out [prep] [pron] they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But my favourites are definitely the ambitious Punjabi boys out for what they can get : |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Disabled and older patients who experience difficulty when rising from a chair will like most people , have their ‘ special ’ chair at home , out of which they can rise relatively easily , and on which they may hang a walking stick to help with safe rising . |
| 5 | Single-parent women can earn relatively little money out of which they will have to pay the expenses of child-minding . |
| 6 | The compartment was fitted out with everything they would need to live there for ever . |