Example sentences of "[prep] what they [vb mod] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Just as firms have to modify what they want in strategic terms with what they can get , so too for government . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | The mercenary ones simply put up with them and pretend that they love them for what they can get out of them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some cretins like Pybus are only in football for what they can get out of it . |
| 8 | But my favourites are definitely the ambitious Punjabi boys out for what they can get : |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Well , I also believe , as I said earlier , that we should have p MPs who represent the G M B about MPs who represent theirselves , for what they can get out of it , what kudos they can get out of it , but leave the activists to do all the work for 'em , to do all the work . |
| 12 | 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 . |