Example sentences of "be in it for " in BNC.

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1 They 're in it for the love of the game .
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 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 .
4 Harry : ‘ I 'd have asked them , ‘ This opera , you 've been in it for long time — do you still like it then ? …
5 Nobody 's been in it for ten years .
6 Yes , aye there would be , just the same ladies that have s been in it for years .
7 That , no it 's not Colin he 's been in it for ages now .
8 He has n't been in it for a long time .
9 ‘ I think most of you are in it for what you can get .
10 And there 's another side to that which is that some people in the statutory provision are in it for the money , for their careers , for empire building and so on .
11 ‘ Good God , man , what profit would there be in it for us ? ’
12 After I come back to take over the club again , you wo n't be in it for more than a week or two at a time . ’
13 It was at the expense of last year 's Irish champion Mark Delaney that Kirk , from the Cairnlodge club rose to Ulster title status some months ago and if the Games team of '94 was picked tomorrow , this lanky shipyard apprentice would be in it for certain .
14 But Mr Gummer knows that an unvarnished ‘ what 's in it for us ? ’ response is inadequate .
15 ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ was the favourite phrase of another .
16 What 's in it for us ? ’
17 When asking people to contribute money or time the question ‘ what 's in it for them ? ’ always needs to be raised .
18 PLEASE What 's in it for you ? ? ? ?
19 What 's in it for me ?
20 ‘ What 's in it for them ? ’ was a question thrown at Murray Cox by the actors .
21 Self reliance , individual enterprise , ‘ what 's in it for me ’ , as opposed to ‘ how can we help our neighbour ’ , was the message .
22 So what 's in it for Waterstones ?
23 What 's in it for the developer ?
24 What 's in it for them in doing this ?
25 It 's the ‘ What 's in it for all of us ? ’ factor .
26 It shows people what 's in it for them .
27 But lots of other agendas are being ignored , like the ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ factor .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’
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