Example sentences of "get for [verb] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 That 's what you get for buying your jewellery from a bubble gum machine .
2 ‘ This is all I get for loving you so much ! ’ cried Bathsheba bitterly .
3 If that 's all , if that 's all we get for getting old , w w we 'll do .
4 ‘ That 's what you get for sticking your dick in a plug socket . ’
5 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 .
6 It 's one of the kick-backs you get for looking like I look .
7 More simply , a crack on the head is what you get for acting in a perfectly natural manner .
8 ‘ 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 .
9 I walked away from Frank , saying , ‘ So this is the gratitude you get for running your heart out for Britain . ’
10 Three pounds I get for running it .
11 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 . ’
12 That 's all the thanks you get for slaving over a hot stove , ’ Mrs Cartwright shouted after us .
13 ‘ A lot of thanks I get for doing a good deed , ’ she said .
14 ‘ 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 . ’
15 ‘ That 's the thanks I get for takin' ye out of a bloody hovel and givin' ye a proper place to live .
  Next page