Example sentences of "in it for [pron] " 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 | 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 . |
26 | They decided that he was only in it for himself and was not the sort of person the comrades wanted to have with them , and definitely not part of the consensus . |
27 | He was even capable of finding some credit in it for himself : for after all , it proved that he did not have to take every apparently unprotected woman who came into his sights . |
28 | Experience suggests that fares to Hong Kong will fall once Virgin arrives , the danger is that in flying to new places Virgin may reduce the money in it for everybody . |
29 | No defence collaboration without representation will be the refrain , as Americans increasingly ask themselves what is in it for them . |
30 | When asking people to contribute money or time the question ‘ what 's in it for them ? ’ always needs to be raised . |