Example sentences of "[modal v] only get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Big , old-established unions may lend up to £5,000 or even more ( the legal maximum is £10,000 ) , but smaller unions may have a limit of a few hundred , and a new member may only get £100 . |
| 2 | Married Mr Wilson , 53 , admitted asking newly-wed Mrs Cann if she wore underwear , making jibes about her sex life and saying women should only get jobs if they wore low-cut tops and tight skirts . |
| 3 | say , if you 've got thirty thousand in , you 'll only get protection on |
| 4 | People in my trade are supposed to be able to help , but I 've only been able to come up with the old platitude : ‘ Do n't buy a £500 car from a dealer because you 'll only get £100 worth of vehicle — the rest will be profit . ’ |
| 5 | On this occasion he could only get 5in so he told one of the shunters , George Dyson , what had happened and asked him to go back along the fish vans and find out if a bag was off . |
| 6 | Once more the driver tried the vacuum and again could only get 5in . |
| 7 | ‘ Twenty years ago when I got married you could only get squares with royal icing and gold stuck all over them . |
| 8 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 9 | the time he phoned he could only get Friday of the first week |
| 10 | They 'd only get holes in them . |
| 11 | For instance , shipping conferences or consortia are not intrinsically anticompetitive , but would only get EC clearance if member firms still had to compete with independent lines on any given route and if the cost savings and other spin-offs from collaboration were passed on to clients and consumers . |
| 12 | Headquarters who 'd decreed that we would only get work by |
| 13 | They will only get help if they can not easily realise savings of the person who died to pay for the bill , or if paying for the bill brought their own family savings below £500 . |
| 14 | The second thing is that erm with regard to future pro projects , Regional Railways have decreed , that we will only get work through competitive tender . |
| 15 | Regional Railways North East Investment have decreed that we will only get work |
| 16 | While a shareware Windows spell checker is available , you can only get hold of it in English . |
| 17 | ‘ We can only get things done if there is sufficient public clamour and we will only get that if the public is aware . ’ |
| 18 | Parents often complain that they can only get help or support when they have identified themselves as having a specific problem , and it is not unusual for some families to have several different workers trying to offer support and advice on specific problems which , in reality , are part of a whole situation . |
| 19 | And while there are scientific minds like those of Stephen Hawking many steps ahead of us we will always want to listen to their stories of exploration — even if we can only get glimpses of what they are trying to describe . |
| 20 | Now we can only get Lux made locally out of God only knows what . ’ |