Example sentences of "you get for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's one of the kick-backs you get for looking like I look . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's what you get for sticking your dick in a plug socket . ’ |
| 6 | That 's what you get for buying your jewellery from a bubble gum machine . |
| 7 | More simply , a crack on the head is what you get for acting in a perfectly natural manner . |
| 8 | That 's all the thanks you get for slaving over a hot stove , ’ Mrs Cartwright shouted after us . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | I walked away from Frank , saying , ‘ So this is the gratitude you get for running your heart out for Britain . ’ |