Example sentences of "in it for " in BNC.
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| 31 | But what is in it for the female ? |
| 32 | The acid fragrance upsets their delicate nasal passages and they avoid anything smeared in it for long periods of time . |
| 33 | I know someone , does n't work for us , quite independent , nothing in it for me , do n't worry about that . |
| 34 | I pick up my barrel-bag and fish around in it for my purse , take out a five pound note and walk over , rolling the note up in my hand . |
| 35 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 36 | Before the new names can go in the pot , the ones that have remained in it for the two years have to come out so , after a brief introduction by the chairman of the trustees and the vicar , the three keyholders leave the room to go next door to the church where the chest is kept . |
| 37 | Unused fireplaces should be blocked off , but the material used must have a number of good sized holes in it for ventilation . |
| 38 | So I thought I 'd tell you about this bit of niceness — and no , there 's not a free Bettencourt signature model in it for me . |
| 39 | What do you see in it for you ? |
| 40 | ‘ What 's in it for them ? ’ was a question thrown at Murray Cox by the actors . |
| 41 | Self reliance , individual enterprise , ‘ what 's in it for me ’ , as opposed to ‘ how can we help our neighbour ’ , was the message . |
| 42 | But there does n't seem to be much in it for the peoples themselves . |
| 43 | He stood in it for fifteen minutes , until it rang on the dot of nine . |
| 44 | ‘ I adore the book although foolishly , there 's no acting part in it for me . |
| 45 | ‘ And this time there is an acting part in it for me . |
| 46 | ‘ I think most of you are in it for what you can get . |
| 47 | ‘ Instead I bit my finger so hard I had teeth marks in it for two days . ’ |
| 48 | So what 's in it for Waterstones ? |
| 49 | What 's in it for the developer ? |
| 50 | It tasted heavy and there was too much whiskey in it for her taste . |
| 51 | What 's in it for them in doing this ? |
| 52 | It 's the ‘ What 's in it for all of us ? ’ factor . |
| 53 | It shows people what 's in it for them . |
| 54 | But lots of other agendas are being ignored , like the ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ factor . |
| 55 | At this point it 's worth mentioning that one of the best approaches to persuasion in any situation can be to ask yourself : ‘ What 's in it for them ? ’ and to consider what needs ( as mentioned earlier in this chapter ) you can meet . |
| 56 | Step one , then , in intelligent persuasion is to acknowledge the status of your ‘ audience ’ through targeting what you say and how you say it to meet the specific needs of the individuals involved : the ‘ What 's in it for you ? ’ factor . |
| 57 | ‘ There 's been a reversal to bands saying , ‘ We 're just in it for the music ’ , and we 're not like that at all . |
| 58 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 59 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess , at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding … morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 60 | They decided that he was only in it for himself and was not the sort of person the comrades wanted to have with them , and definitely not part of the consensus . |