Example sentences of "[pron] get for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the compliment I got for putting on red nail varnish . |
| 2 | ‘ This is all I get for loving you so much ! ’ cried Bathsheba bitterly . |
| 3 | ‘ A lot of thanks I get for doing a good deed , ’ she said . |
| 4 | ‘ Listen , Maurice , as I say I am now playing the lead in this show , and I think it is about time you sorted out some deal on the money I get for doing it . ’ |
| 5 | Three pounds I get for running it . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you on a booze-up or what ? he asked belligerently. ‘ that 's what I get for coming to see you and your mother in bed with the flu , ’ his father protested indignantly . |
| 8 | What would I get for killing him ? |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd telephoned you purely because I had a need to hear the sound of your voice and what do I get for giving in to such weakness ? |
| 10 | When I went home a when I was started at ten and thruppence a week , it was a regula regulation in the family that the spending money erm basis , what you got for spending , was a penny in the shilling . |
| 11 | ‘ What excuse has she got for giving instructions that , in the middle of the night , armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into caged lorries and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ? |
| 12 | ‘ What excuse , ’ he asked Mrs Thatcher , ‘ have you got for giving instructions that in the middle of the night , armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into caged lorries and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It 's one of the kick-backs you get for looking like I look . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's what you get for sticking your dick in a plug socket . ’ |
| 16 | That 's what you get for buying your jewellery from a bubble gum machine . |
| 17 | More simply , a crack on the head is what you get for acting in a perfectly natural manner . |
| 18 | That 's all the thanks you get for slaving over a hot stove , ’ Mrs Cartwright shouted after us . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | I walked away from Frank , saying , ‘ So this is the gratitude you get for running your heart out for Britain . ’ |
| 21 | While both gentlemen shared the comfort of a horse and buggy to the course , however , the boys had to hot-foot it at a brisk jog behind the carriage — ‘ an exercise to be relished almost as much as the tuppence we got for caddying , ’ Fred used to say . |
| 22 | If that 's all , if that 's all we get for getting old , w w we 'll do . |
| 23 | And that was what he got for testing her , Guy told himself disgustedly . |
| 24 | The other thing we 've got ta find out about is er while we 're on the subject is what insurance has he got for skiing ? |