Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [adv] get a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , ’ she added with a rueful look , ‘ I could n't even get a cup of tea . |
| 2 | I could never quite get a picture of her from Elizabeth . |
| 3 | I ca n't even get a bus pass . |
| 4 | See , I ca n't even get a proper handle on their mythology . |
| 5 | ‘ Not if I know Chopper. 'E 'll most prob'ly get a cab an' then do anuvver runner , ’ Freddie laughed . |
| 6 | if you have R ten times what it was in the pres the previous one , you 'll now only get a tenth of the current out . |
| 7 | And some years you 'd probably maybe get a few pounds back and sometimes you would er maybe have to pay a few pounds . |
| 8 | Sometimes you 'd maybe not get a steamer for maybe maybe six weeks if the wind was to the South East . |
| 9 | He referred to a dinner given in honour of A. R. Orage , the retiring editor whom Philip Mairet was to replace , which was of inordinate length and at which there were interminable speeches , and where — this was represented as the ultimate horror , uttered in the tones of a cri de coeur — ‘ you could n't even get a drink ! ’ |
| 10 | You ca n't even get a compromise really round here in that you 've got ta have one or the other . |
| 11 | I play in all types of weather and very few people play tennis anyway so you ca n't always get a game . |
| 12 | Now you ca n't really get a coherent staffing policy within a school in that kind of flux , whereas now people perhaps erm a bit too much at the opposite extreme but nevertheless erm do know that they 're committed to being in the school and have a , therefore a commitment to it , a commitment to improving their own work and , and their collective work . |
| 13 | You will not always get a reply but you may be surprised at how often you do . |
| 14 | Well I mean , I say you wo n't actually get a better selection than looking in here will you ? |
| 15 | " Great pity we could n't even get a glimpse of her . |
| 16 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ The battle is not yet over , the battle for the survival of the National Health Service , for proper investment in children who go to local maintained schools , to protect learning and independence in the universities and broadcasting , to secure freedom of information and reform of our democracy , and ensure we shall never again get a government that will use unemployment and recession as its main economic weapon . ’ |
| 17 | If this is so , then we shall almost certainly get a cookbook , and the standard-setters will be doomed forever to the thankless task of blocking , after the event , all the ingenious but undesirable accounting schemes that the wit of man can devise . |
| 18 | And we ca n't even get a decent piece of grub round this place now . |
| 19 | We ca n't even , and the worse thing is we ca n't even get a decent piece of grub round this place any more . |
| 20 | We ca n't even get a decent piece of grub . |
| 21 | We ca n't really get a feel for the man at the moment , except as a personality , and that is coming across through the media as Terry points out , various aspects of his personality . |
| 22 | He detests travelling alone , he is impossible to clip unless doped , he loathes vets and injections ( ‘ We can just about get a needle into a vein now he 's sixteen … ’ and he has to be sedated for his teeth to be rasped . |
| 23 | They ca n't even get a council house out there ! |
| 24 | It was absurd that Norman Ward Westerman and Lord Boddy should listen with real deference to his views on Halifax , while at home he could n't even get a hearing from his own wife . |