Example sentences of "be what you [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A popular shift for returning district nurses is the twilight shift — assisting patients into or out of bed — although this may not be what you want for the rest of your life . |
| 2 | ‘ These are what you came for , are n't they — your ledgers , a couple of files ? |
| 3 | ‘ Vodka and orange juice — that 's what you asked for , was n't it ? |
| 4 | ‘ That 's what you get for sticking your dick in a plug socket . ’ |
| 5 | That 's what you get for buying your jewellery from a bubble gum machine . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's what you get for flying antiques , ’ he said unsympathetically . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | " That 's what you get for being public-spirited . " |
| 9 | That 's what you use for that , to make the bacon brown , you know , yeah . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | That 's what you pray for . |
| 12 | If that 's what you want for the museum . |
| 13 | because that 's what you need for overtaking someone . |
| 14 | ‘ The only pressure you get is what you make for yourself . |
| 15 | That was all that was necessary and to proffer whatever it was , saying with great emphasis ‘ Here is what you asked for , sir ’ . |
| 16 | I think that man 's insane , and cunning — and the mixture of insanity and cunning is what you mistake for some deep wisdom . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | More simply , a crack on the head is what you get for acting in a perfectly natural manner . |
| 19 | PRS money is what you get for your compositions being played and performed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | so , so lust is what you feel for the wrong one ? |