Example sentences of "for what they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such circumstances , it is effrontery that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) should be attacked for what they might do , instead of the Government being brought to account for what they have done and continue to do . |
| 2 | In a city-centre bar , the four members of Eugenius are convening for what they might call work . |
| 3 | The constitutional separation does not prevent some Members of Parliament echoing the condemnation of the tabloid press in intemperately criticizing individual judges for what they may consider to be an unduly lenient sentence . |
| 4 | Forgive others for what they may have done to you in the past ; and forgive yourself as well — you have probably learned much from your mistakes . |
| 5 | Like Henry James , she found the tiny ‘ germ ’ in a happening , and then had to create people to bring it about ; unlike Turgenev , who began with creating people , and then watched and listened for what they would do or say . |
| 6 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
| 7 | A special spinners ' mat was laid down at pre-tour net sessions at Lilleshall in an effort to prepare England 's batsmen for what they could expect to face on dusty Indian pitches . |
| 8 | They were welcome for what they could help China to achieve in practical terms , but their politics and social attitudes were reviled . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What he had already done at Bec and Caen , he would do at Canterbury : he rebuilt the cathedral church and monastic buildings ; he fought pertinaciously and successfully to defend the ancient properties of the cathedral church against the rapacious invading nobility , who scoured the land for what they could pick up ; he drew up a new code of monastic practice , and he introduced new men who would know how to implement it . |
| 11 | It is the same with all new expressions : there is one colour for what the trainees need to understand ( what they will hear ) and another colour for what they will need to use ( what they will say ) . |
| 12 | The mercenary ones simply put up with them and pretend that they love them for what they can get out of them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some cretins like Pybus are only in football for what they can get out of it . |
| 15 | But my favourites are definitely the ambitious Punjabi boys out for what they can get : |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Now such infants are too young even to organize a so-called visually-guided reach ( that is , reaching for what they can see ) . |