quid pro quoin a sentence
- Quid pro quo, Dr. Lecter.† (source)
- A game of quid pro quo.† (source)
- Quid pro quo?† (source)
- Quid pro quo.† (source)
- The motive for the murders, for example — she puts it down to wild jealousy on the part of Grace, who envied Nancy her possession of Mr. Kinnear, and lechery on the part of McDermott, who was promised a quid pro quo for his services as butcher, in the form of Grace's favours.† (source)
- How do you make sense of that The most logical explanation is that the wrestlers made a quid pro quo agreement: you let me win today, when I really need the victory, and I'll let you win the next time.† (source)
- It was the prison system's quid pro quo: You want contact with the outside world?† (source)
- Sir Basil Charleston, chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service, was a master of the quid pro quo, occasionally offering to share sources with his wealthier cousins and a month later asking for something in return.† (source)
- The old quid pro quo.† (source)
- I no longer believe this is a quid pro quo universe--I've counseled too many prisoners, worked with too many failed marriages, faced my own dilemmas too many times, and been loved gratuitously after too many failures.† (source)
- "Quid pro quo," said the demon, playfully emphasizing each syllable with a tap of his cane.† (source)
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- A quid pro quo, as he would say.† (source)
- It might be some kind of quid pro quo situation.† (source)
- I'd say quid pro quo has been the basis for a rather successful partnership.† (source)
- As you said yourself, a productive partnership is based on quid pro quo rather than charity.† (source)
- Quid pro quo.† (source)
- "Quid pro quo," recited the imp.† (source)
- M. Gillenormand had not accepted the quid pro quo.† (source)
- "Now I don't know that the law will hold a man to such a promise; he might give you his pocket with sixpence in't, and tell you to take your pay out on't," "That would not be a reward in the eye of the law, interrupted the attorney—" not what is called a 'quid pro quo;' nor is the pocket to be considered as an agent, but as part of a man's own person, that is, in this particular.† (source)
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