Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] get her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharon , that 's it , I could not get her name last night . |
| 2 | She compromised with China in agreeing to the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and with the Zimbabwean nationalists over the Rhodesian negotiations , when it became clear that she could not get her way . |
| 3 | Her heart seemed to swell in her chest — she could not get her breath ! |
| 4 | It was n't only the money , but her library card , her family allowance book , the receipt from the repair shop without which she could n't get her watch back , creased photographs , with Edward 's own photograph among them , her address book , almost the whole sum of her identity . |
| 5 | Yeah , she 'd been to college but she could n't get her car started , she had to get her dad to drive her in and pick her up . |
| 6 | She was so stunned , she could n't get her tongue round a single word . |
| 7 | From time to time a harassed mother might rap angrily on the window to complain that she could n't get her push-chair past the car , which I had parked blocking the pavement . |
| 8 | If he could n't get her practice one way , then he would try to get it by another method . |