Example sentences of "[pers pn] can not get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says I ca n't get a taxi because I have n't got enough money cos I do n't get paid til the end of the month . |
| 2 | If I ca n't get a response from them soon I 'll force-feed 'em my old loin-cloths ! |
| 3 | Only I ca n't get a chance to study in the meantime . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't get a heartbeat . ’ |
| 5 | I ca n't get a word out of him . ’ |
| 6 | I have n't dear , no I ca n't get a bus pass but I get the grant from the Council in er January twenty five pound we get to help towards the fuel bills you see , no . |
| 7 | I ca n't get a job . |
| 8 | And now I 'm gon na have to leave it and go , and Denis 'll get the room , and all because this country is so fucked-up I ca n't get a job . |
| 9 | So I wrote him a letter , told him I 'm here , I ca n't get a job , so he managed to get a job for me . |
| 10 | If I ca n't get a job I wo n't stay in Slumptown — I do n't want benefit or a Youth Scheme' all that crap . |
| 11 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 12 | ‘ You think I ca n't get a woman to come to bed with me without offering her bribes ? |
| 13 | I draw Donald a lot if I ca n't get a hand or an angle of an arm right . |
| 14 | I draw Donald a lot if I ca n't get a hand or an angle of an arm right . |
| 15 | It sounds terrible , so depressing , but I really feel , I ca n't get a spark in me . |
| 16 | Well you ca n't get a word in edgeways ca n't you ? |
| 17 | Charles is very much like that on the phone , you ca n't get a conversation out of him |
| 18 | They ca n't afford to put a man in and you ca n't get a tractor round the graves so a goat 's the obvious answer . |
| 19 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 20 | ‘ You ca n't get a plumber these days , not for love nor money . ’ |
| 21 | You ca n't get a train otherwise . |
| 22 | Public transport is a joke : you ca n't get a train home from Cambridge after about 10pm . |
| 23 | So much so , that I missed my stop when it finally came round and I ended up stranded in a place called Parliament Hill Fields , where you ca n't get a bus or a tube anywhere except back to the BBC . |
| 24 | You ca n't get a stethoscope to them . |
| 25 | I do n't think it 's not a not a complete You ca n't get a headline , Tories divided over rule changes . |
| 26 | You could arrange a lift , but that 's in case you ca n't get a lift , that 's how long it takes you . |
| 27 | Is there a home you could afford , but you ca n't get a mortgage ? |
| 28 | erm For instance we know that , that erm in this country you ca n't get a mortgage without taking out fire insurance , and the reason why it 's mandatory in a mortgage is because if it were left to people 's whim they would n't do it , they 'd say , ‘ Well it wo n't happen to me , ’ and mortgage companies do n't like that very much . |
| 29 | you ca n't get a lot with a fiver . |
| 30 | If you ca n't get a replacement , lift the gutter away and apply a bed of weatherproof sealant such as Bostic 6 . |