Example sentences of "in it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hired murderers — in it for the blood money . |
| 2 | It is good work , this , Angus , it is bringing the thing home to plenty folk who have only been in it for the furore so far , for the chance to squeeze their girls in the crowd and all that kind of thing . |
| 3 | It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time . |
| 4 | I was only in it for a lark . ’ |
| 5 | He 's been in it for five years ( only he and Jean Boht have been with the show from the beginning ) and he 's proud of that , he says . |
| 6 | It 's just as well — I cut two holes in it for the ears ! |
| 7 | One senior minister said : ‘ There was nothing in it for the Right . ’ |
| 8 | One senior minister said : ‘ There was nothing in it for the Right . ’ |
| 9 | While business was buoyant there was a living in it for many small shops that are liable to succumb in a climate where 40 per cent of the country are wanting independent deals , and the remainder are demanding much improved advice and service . |
| 10 | But Mr Gummer knows that an unvarnished ‘ what 's in it for us ? ’ response is inadequate . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ was the favourite phrase of another . |
| 12 | No defence collaboration without representation will be the refrain , as Americans increasingly ask themselves what is in it for them . |
| 13 | The whole area had been covered with black polythene sheeting to keep down weeds , with a few slits cut in it for drainage . |
| 14 | What 's in it for us ? ’ |
| 15 | A number of significant figures were caught up in it for a while — the sculptor F. E. McWilliam , Tristram Hillier , John Tunnard . |
| 16 | When asking people to contribute money or time the question ‘ what 's in it for them ? ’ always needs to be raised . |
| 17 | PLEASE What 's in it for you ? ? ? ? |
| 18 | I 'm only in it for the fund-raising ! |
| 19 | Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper were to co-star and Nicholson wrote a part in it for himself but Corman refused to cast him and Bruce Dern played the role instead . |
| 20 | This was not the rich pap of the commercial world and there was little money in it for the artists . |
| 21 | But what is in it for the wasps ? |
| 22 | What is in it for the fluke ? |
| 23 | By now her hiding-place had become far too dangerous for her to remain in it for much longer . |
| 24 | I had an old camping van that I lived in during tournaments , and he chose to go with me in it for a meal in Chinatown in Liverpool . |
| 25 | Although he did not completely discard the astrological concept of destiny , Plutarch argued that there was a place in it for contingency . |
| 26 | The syllabus for modern languages in the GCSE is very full ; but there is no place in it for the teaching of grammar . |
| 27 | Walk round , take out matchbox and place fasteners in it for safety . |
| 28 | In its strongest form , at the perception of a new and beautiful poetic or religious idea , mystics and seers will fall into a trance and remain in it for hours or even days . |
| 29 | What 's in it for me ? |
| 30 | The fact that we stayed in it for four seasons was not a little due to the . |