Sentence examples for he merely gets from inspiring English sources

"As it is when the student doesn't cheat he merely gets credit for obedience and fear of the monitor," Mr. Rosenthal continued, "if he does cheat he is punished for imposing on the confidence of his instructor".

But he is at his best when commenting on a play while acting, and in "Auntie Mame" he merely gets to play the story of Mame, who comes to care deeply for her nephew as they scrape by through the Depression until she is whisked off by a wealthy oil man and travels around the world.

He merely got booed; he's lucky the kids didn't TP his car or soap the windows.

Depardieu, 63, has neither confirmed nor denied his imminent arrival (he merely got cross when asked last week) but it is hard to keep a secret in a village.

Mr. Norton is a stranger in a strange land, to be sure, and maybe he merely got stuck with a much-too-live audience.

He merely got to graduation day with enough credits to graduate, which thousands of kids have done without being able to read.

Rothschild initially held her ground, saying that she merely got the best of the inevitable scramble for the prize.

He's not in a funk, though, he's merely got the defeated air of a puppy who's just found out the cat's made off with all the maple bacon.

But at the moment, he is merely getting by.

Tom merely gets into trouble with his wife after his mistress turns up dead.

Even the hitter standing at the plate merely gets the privilege of reacting first.