Example sentences of "for [pron] [pron] [vb mod] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this spared the Bush Administration from the perils of thinking for itself , or heaven forbid , taking a policy decision for which it might get criticised , it naively ignored the danger that Bonn might have a large axe of its own to grind . |
| 2 | There was a little work to do , fetching and carrying about the kitchens , for which he would get ten shillings a week . |
| 3 | How do you know you 're not paying now for something you 'll get later ? ) |
| 4 | On the surface Dana was hard and self-assured , out for everything she could get , but Claudia knew that exterior was n't completely genuine . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The mercenary ones simply put up with them and pretend that they love them for what they can get out of them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some cretins like Pybus are only in football for what they can get out of it . |
| 12 | But my favourites are definitely the ambitious Punjabi boys out for what they can get : |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She was grateful for what she could get . |
| 18 | ‘ For what she could get ! |
| 19 | ‘ You could n't help liking him , but you always felt he was out for what he could get , ’ she said . |
| 20 | At the back of her mind was the half-formed worry that William was with her only for what he could get . |
| 21 | Tolby seemed to have buttered up all the Devenishes for what he could get : the father took him into the firm and launched him on his career ; Clare darned his socks and cooked him meals ; and Hubert — if Henry was right — had put some business his way . |
| 22 | ‘ You think he 's out for what he can get ? ’ |
| 23 | yeah he 's one of the few doctor 's that 's not seemingly not all for what he can get , he seems to be a genuine caring chap I mean a lot of doctor 's they burn the candles at both ends |
| 24 | You 've said time and again you 're only here for what you can get . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I think most of you are in it for what you can get . |
| 26 | Is it the first time , for instance , you have been told you only enter into relationships for what you can get out of them ? |
| 27 | It 's all nonsense , paying for what you can get free . ’ |
| 28 | You 're all right Jack and I should be lucky for what I can get . |
| 29 | I 've got to be made to realize that I only love him for what I can get out of it . |
| 30 | I only take up with men for what I can get out of them . ’ |