Example sentences of "all [pron] get [is] " in BNC.

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1 All I got is a ball of string and some bits of paper .
2 All I get is criticism . ’
3 I have phoned the company , but all I get is an ansaphone and no-one ever contacts me .
4 Here I 'm doing you a favour and all I get is crummy insults . ’
5 All I get is the blood and guts . ’
6 I , his daughter , grieve and demand justice , but all I get is the offensive language of the alleys and runnels of Southwark .
7 They may be matched but then all you got is two turds instead of one !
8 They may be matched but then all you got is two turds instead of one !
9 ‘ Whole ass in view apart from that scrap of cloth there ; bare back , so you know she 's got a bare front , but all you get 's just a promise of something you never see .
10 But if in a moment of madness you do a John McEnroe and smash it to smithereens , all you get is the satisfaction .
11 All you get is contempt , did n't they say so ?
12 At Roker Park all you get is an incessant ‘ Red and white army . ’
13 And all you get is bloody
14 But , I mean , often when you go and approach children like that , you find , that you know , all you get is a mouthful of
15 All you get is this much here .
16 And that 's all we got in n it ?
17 All we got is a piece of paper , which probably on that one tells the council they recommend approval of this .
18 We try to get on with people , to be friendly with them and all we get is trouble .
19 All we get is incidents !
20 and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes
21 But all one gets is :
22 They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm .
23 All they get is sad sheep for fans … who just follow the crowd — try and be uncontroversial .
24 or whatever , just let them know roughly what you 're doing , cos , all they get is a tape , it gives them an idea of what sort of things were happening at that time , any words they ca n't pick up if she 's cooking , maybe that 's something she was making or whatever , erm , in the please write the first names and details , why you know them , of all the people speaking on this side of the tape , in order in which they speak on the tape in the first , first instance , right , you know , so now Carla , my husband , myself , Lee and , you do n't need to repeat them again after that
25 Makes all those starving countries that 's all they get is rice !
26 ‘ They got a governmen' like they theenk this one real country excep' all they got is couple hun'red thousan' people . ’
27 You mean that after slaving away for fourteen years all he gets is two thousand ? ’
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