Example sentences of "[adv] for [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This writing was discovered by her ; she read some material before her visit , which prepared her a little for what she would see . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Good only for what it can do . |
| 4 | At the back of her mind was the half-formed worry that William was with her only for what he could get . |
| 5 | It was also essential that he believed he was being cured , because of the need he would face soon for what I can only call ‘ self-help ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's changed over the years , but it 's still for what I 'd like to think of as the intelligent , discerning young music fan . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Perhaps Locke did not recognise the difference because he used the same word , ‘ idea ’ , both for what we would ordinarily call an idea and for what is imprinted in , or on , the mind , the ‘ sensation ’ . |
| 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 | ‘ You could n't help liking him , but you always felt he was out for what he could get , ’ she said . |
| 14 | ‘ You think he 's out for what he can get ? ’ |
| 15 | She had stopped to drink from a can on the way up , caring little now for what it might be doing to her . |
| 16 | For he could not have had to look far for whatever it might be , there had been no time for that . |
| 17 | You 've said time and again you 're only here for what you can get . ’ |
| 18 | What I looked for , but only occasionally glimpsed , was the recognition that , though differing frameworks of shared assumptions may be barriers to effective understanding , the rewards can be substantial — if not for what we learn about the alien systems then for what we may discover about our own previously unquestioned beliefs . |
| 19 | He wondered how many of those around him were there for what he would call the right reason : the feeling that it was simple , playful fun to know things , an eager delight at the discovery that each piece of learning was a key to greater complexities of understanding . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Of course , there are many other tasks too for which you 'll find the Steamatic is the perfect answer . |