Example sentences of "[is] what you [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Vodka and orange juice — that 's what you asked for , was n't it ?
2 ‘ That 's what you get for sticking your dick in a plug socket . ’
3 That 's what you get for buying your jewellery from a bubble gum machine .
4 ‘ That 's what you get for flying antiques , ’ he said unsympathetically .
5 The solos still grate , but at least you can get the beers in at this point without fear of missing anything serious — although Hammett has included an axe-trashing coda to his widdly-widdly section ; that 's what you get for hanging out with Nirvana .
6 " That 's what you get for being public-spirited . "
7 That 's what you use for that , to make the bacon brown , you know , yeah .
8 That 's what you look for , you see , you look for corcus races really and while conflict is perfectly real , and no question of that , but it tremendously easily becomes pathological and gets out of hand and a good deal of social organization consists really and how do you erm in a sense how do you keep people and societies from falling over these cliffs ?
9 That 's what you pray for .
10 If that 's what you want for the museum .
11 because that 's what you need for overtaking someone .
12 ‘ The only pressure you get is what you make for yourself .
13 That was all that was necessary and to proffer whatever it was , saying with great emphasis ‘ Here is what you asked for , sir ’ .
14 I think that man 's insane , and cunning — and the mixture of insanity and cunning is what you mistake for some deep wisdom .
15 Harking back to The Smiths ' early days , it is another stab at Victorian virtue : ‘ A crack on the head is what you get for asking . ’
16 More simply , a crack on the head is what you get for acting in a perfectly natural manner .
17 PRS money is what you get for your compositions being played and performed .
18 The open air is what you yearn for — a pair of good walking shoes , a green thornproof , and the ability to melt into the undergrowth .
19 so , so lust is what you feel for the wrong one ?
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