Example sentences of "he [verb] not [been] [adj] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South African case remains interesting , and I asked my doctor friend for clarification , but so far he has not been able to get any further information . |
| 2 | As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie . |
| 3 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 4 | While FDR had avoided definite recognition of Russian control of much of Eastern Europe , he had not been able to get more than general promises of free elections and independent governments for Soviet-dominated areas . |
| 5 | But , so far , at any rate , he had not been able to get beyond page 12 . |
| 6 | There were pauses , then he banged the keys plaintively , going over the passages he had n't been able to get right , then suddenly he put on a record of the Chopin and played along with it , always two or three notes behind . |
| 7 | On leaving , he said that his only regret , was that he had n't been able to get round to everyone and say goodbye . |