Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] [modal v] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's more obvious to the audience how , like , Tony 's just after what he can get sort of thing . |
| 2 | But those wo n't , er if we were to take cashing those in now , it would be probably taking half of what we might get for them in the future , and from a business proposition , there is a time , when even if you have money in the bank , there are times , when it would be very advantageous to take long term interest rates , at low interest rates , and I think er er this is er perhaps the best opportunity that we have . |
| 3 | I 've only given a hint of what you 'll get as a Hilton Club member . |
| 4 | Yes I think er that that , yes that , that sounds about right from the point of view of what you 'd get back . |
| 5 | I did The Player for a third of what I can get for films I do n't want to do . |
| 6 | We could n't do an awful lot because it was er er classed as a luxury business er and so we , we could n't get an awful lot of photographic paper or films or anything of that sort but we managed to keep the connections up with what we could get . |
| 7 | With an inconvenient house and stuck out on that headland with nothing to look at but a ruined abbey and that atomic power station they 'll have to put up with what they can get . ’ |
| 8 | Just as firms have to modify what they want in strategic terms with what they can get , so too for government . |
| 9 | I got the impression very quickly that she was going through a period where she was experimenting a lot with what she could get away with as an individual . |
| 10 | Until that time be happy with what you can get . ’ |
| 11 | yeah , basically , I mean you could go to poly with what you could get , yeah |
| 12 | With what I 'll get for it , I 'll live like a prince ! |
| 13 | What the Russians want is technical help and equipment , now our own industry is in decline er yes , particularly in machine tool industry , and I think the first thing we should do is to go over there and see what it is they actually needed , what they actually need right now , er one of your previous er correspondence , er speaker turned round and said well they 've got half finished buildings and things like that , I mean er , people have got to be put to work because people in co-ordinate employment is the only source of real wealth , but the market economy is n't interested in promoting real wealth , I mean it 's only interested in what it can get out of an economy not what it gives . |
| 14 | ‘ The meals are very different from what you would get at home , but once they are brought to the boil they give off a most delicious smell . ’ |
| 15 | Has the Minister considered whether it would make more sense if young men and women from working-class families who leave school at 16 or 17 and are thrown into slave labour schemes where they earn a little over £20 a week , but who want to stay on at school , could stay on and be paid a sum equivalent to what they would get on training schemes ? |
| 16 | Can can I just say that I think it 's interesting that Mao 's sort of targeting the local tyrants and the erm the evil gentry I mean because you could , you could ar argue that basically the landlords are only trying to get a return erm which is , which is equal to what they can get if they invest all their money in or you know erm or whatever or big cities |
| 17 | Limit to what you can get by gobblin' a guy 's raw brain . |
| 18 | DI 'd through a desk and recorded onto both DAT and cassette utilising the onboard amp simulator , the distortion could n't be described as amazing , but I presume this must be what people expect to hear these days , although to me it does n't sound too close to what you 'd get from a guitar amp . |
| 19 | All I will say is that I reject as a model of justice the view which has temporarily gained favour in many developed societies : namely , the view that each person is entitled to what he can get , and let the next man look out for himself as best he can . |
| 20 | And then he became even more worried about what she might get up to with a lover . |
| 21 | She always has been , and me and Lily get worried about what she might get up to . |
| 22 | You have to work off what you can get . |
| 23 | Of course this can never be true if the occupation has been entered upon for what one can get out of it — one must never expect virtue to bring a reward . |
| 24 | meeting with the Education Department and Senior English Inspector once a year to account ( financially ) for what we are doing and to try to bargain for what we might get next year … |
| 25 | And you and I in our journey in life looking for what we could get , hoping to make it we 've now been made joint heirs with Jesus Christ entering into his inheritance . |
| 26 | Without the recession it would be higher but we must be thankful for what we can get in these times when other railways are reporting reductions of up to 20 percent . |
| 27 | The mercenary ones simply put up with them and pretend that they love them for what they can get out of them . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Some cretins like Pybus are only in football for what they can get out of it . |
| 30 | But my favourites are definitely the ambitious Punjabi boys out for what they can get : |