Example sentences of "[adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Amanda would only get it over with , thought Don . |
| 2 | ‘ If you could only get over it . |
| 3 | ‘ Mummy 's arthritis can only get worse . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In theory , things can only get better ; in practice , they may well become a lot worse before Wasps return in the league next March . |
| 6 | With the developments in fibre optics and the explosion in the use of services such as transcontinental video conferences , the competition can only get stiffer . |
| 7 | I ca n't help thinking things will only get worse when I have the baby . |
| 8 | To Greeves , the orthodox believer , he wrote in January 1930 , ‘ In spite of all my recent changes of view I am still inclined to think that you can only get what you call Christ out of the Gospels by picking and choosing and slurring over a good deal . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It seems inevitable that almost everybody will only get some of the shares they wanted , ’ one analyst said . |
| 10 | ‘ It seems inevitable that almost everybody will only get some of the shares they wanted , ’ one analyst said . |
| 11 | An elderly gent wandering the streets talking to himself about his secret wedding to his ward tomorrow ( because the plot requires him to be overheard so she 'll find out ) is the sort of thing you can only get away with in opera . |
| 12 | With unemployment and general economic disarray on the rise , the feeling in the city is that things can only get worse . |
| 13 | In 1953 he unveiled her at the Cannes film festival where she stole the limelight to such an extent that established stars could only get their pictures taken by posing with her . |
| 14 | And I remember saying to him , but you can only get twelve Hawks on a 707 … |
| 15 | It can only get better . |
| 16 | We are really a little ahead of our targets on the field and I 'm sure things can only get better . |
| 17 | All this new equipment we have bought to receive FM can only get , in one engineer 's words , ‘ the best available signal ’ . |
| 18 | One of the high-heid yins wanted to have 20 gondolas , but another councillor said they should only get a male and a female and breed them . ’ |
| 19 | Here , ma Da 'll only get it if you do n't . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If you are lucky enough to lure a governor from Sainsbury 's the governor will not only get three days paid leave per year for meetings and training , but also receive £200 for school funds . |
| 22 | She replied that they could only get an ‘ impression ’ of the girl and there was no use looking farther . |
| 23 | We do n't only get you to the hospital — we get you there alive ! ’ — commercial for a private medical firm |
| 24 | If such is the character of these places now , what must they have been like when both men and livestock could only get around them by boat , and parishes such as Dogdyke in Lincolnshire had in the eighteenth century ‘ not two houses communicable for whole winters round ’ . |
| 25 | But I doggedly believed that things would change , that they could only get better , yet when I reached the outcrop I wailed with despair . |
| 26 | On no account should footstraps be fitted at the novice stage , as they will only get in your way . |
| 27 | You will only get enough power to do this by extending the arms as high as possible , thereby getting the rig upright . |
| 28 | I can only get in when he forgets to lock the door . |
| 29 | It could only get worse for poor Mr Collins as room and meal materialised , but at least he acknowledged of the Cornish in general that they had , ‘ no propensity to jeer at strangers ’ . |
| 30 | … ‘ You do n't want to go fishing , you 'll only get dirty and your mother will have to wash your clothes ’ … |