Example sentences of "in it for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ was the favourite phrase of another . |
| 2 | What 's in it for me ? |
| 3 | I know someone , does n't work for us , quite independent , nothing in it for me , do n't worry about that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Self reliance , individual enterprise , ‘ what 's in it for me ’ , as opposed to ‘ how can we help our neighbour ’ , was the message . |
| 6 | ‘ I adore the book although foolishly , there 's no acting part in it for me . |
| 7 | ‘ And this time there is an acting part in it for me . |
| 8 | But lots of other agendas are being ignored , like the ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ factor . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 … |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ |
| 12 | Though I know that the struggle is taking place somewhere , as a housewife I find it harder to believe that there is a part in it for me . |
| 13 | What 's in it for me ? |
| 14 | These perceptions will then be evaluated through a consideration of ‘ what 's in it for me ? ’ |
| 15 | A asked ‘ What 's in it for me ? ’ and was told that he would receive £10,000 if W bought it for £100,000 or less . |
| 16 | Try to keep it as broad as you can to do the well alright then I know why it is , what 's in it for me . |
| 17 | But what 's in it for me ? |
| 18 | What 's in it for me ? |
| 19 | What it is in it for me ? |
| 20 | There 's no money in it for me . |
| 21 | And if there 's no money in it for me I 'm not gon na give priority to going picking up a piece of wood for a customer . |
| 22 | He was too far out of her reach , she thought , she would never be comfortable with him ; she would always think of herself as somehow his ward , his adopted orphan , his property ; there would be no real place in it for her . |
| 23 | If so , what was in it for her ? |
| 24 | ‘ My guess — it 's no more than that — is that somebody came around earlier and told Mrs Tanner that there 'd be a couple of hundred quid in it for her if you showed up . |
| 25 | No defence collaboration without representation will be the refrain , as Americans increasingly ask themselves what is in it for them . |
| 26 | When asking people to contribute money or time the question ‘ what 's in it for them ? ’ always needs to be raised . |
| 27 | ‘ What 's in it for them ? ’ was a question thrown at Murray Cox by the actors . |
| 28 | What 's in it for them in doing this ? |
| 29 | It shows people what 's in it for them . |
| 30 | 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 . |