Example sentences of "[modal v] get [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 It may be true , as you say , that most types of continental facility can be found in Britain ( if you look hard enough ) , but conditions on the continent are so superior that visitors to this country must get quite a shock .
2 You must get quite a nice
3 ‘ Only I think they might get just a bit mixed up . ’
4 ‘ I might get only an hour , or perhaps only half a game from him .
5 You you might get quite a nasty shock .
6 Well it 's a certainty that I 'll get either a red or a blue .
7 If I say , I 'll bet you I 'll get either a red or a blue .
8 ‘ My life 's insured by the department , ’ he explains to Felicity , ‘ so that if anything happens to me you 'd get both a lump sum and a regular income .
9 I thought she 'd get rather a lot of cheap publicity . ’
10 Yeah , I could make , I could do their hair and do their clothes and their face and I 'd get about a hundred pounds , more than that .
11 I 'd get quite a surprise because very s small number of men in the shop .
12 I 'd get quite a bit now
13 No I would n't splash it all out but I 'd get quite a bit cos of the twenty years .
14 We 'd get quite a lot of people I think .
15 You could get quite a lot from this book , either by reading it as a whole book , or by dipping into it either as you need to know something , or simply keeping it handy and reading the occasional topic when you get bored .
16 We found then that the bigger the objective lens was the more light could be got and the bigger you could make it , so as I got bigger and got er the chance of making my own lenses and building up lenses of various kinds , I found that I could get quite a good magnification .
17 If they did locate then I could get quite a good membership
18 I , I think I ca I , once upon a time I did on the fixed seating for , for I think you could get about a hundred and twenty round
19 A couple of years ago FAST would get only a few complaints about car boot sales a year .
20 So you would get quite a quite a lot of it you would hear .
21 Others are less successful and may get only a single female or even remain unmated .
22 And I 'm gon na pick one at random , and I 'm gon na have this bet with you that I will get either a red or a blue .
23 It is also , of course , a CD audio player and so purchasers will get both a Sony Discman and CD-I player combined in one device .
24 If they do go ahead and put the application in , which I think they will , then , that 's the start of the process , so that 's a good time when we will need to really step up the campaign and we will get National speaker 's to meetings , we will get probably a petition , we will go round the area like we did over the er non funding , but we had to do something quickly , to , to make it clear , you know , we do n't want this to go ahead .
25 Of the five candidates for the leadership , two will get only a handful of votes .
26 As Mr Jim Lester , the MP for Broxtowe , on the left of the party , said yesterday : ‘ I am quite sure he will get quite a lot of support .
27 This Sunday first of all , the Sunday newspaper will get quite a lot of colour into its pages and will be expanded , and secondly the daily paper , starting next Tuesday , will become a two section newspaper with about twenty wee twenty pages a week extra .
28 If I can get just a fraction of this spooky atmosphere into my drawings , then they 'll be perfect . ’
29 The teacher can get together a small group to discuss problems .
30 No you can all you can do is just learn a few each day or learn some patterns so that you can get quite a few words in one go and sort of learn some tricks like guessing well we 'll we 'll try with a C.
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