Example sentences of "could n't get [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warrington could n't get themselves back into the match after having Neil Harmon ( bottom right ) sent off for a high tackle in the second half . |
| 2 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 3 | ‘ Nonsense , Devlin is one of the most remarkable men I have ever known , but even he could n't get me out of this place . ’ |
| 4 | And er I was er one that was sorted out to go , but they would n't let me go because er I could n't get b they could n't get me back to work for seven o'clock on Monday morning . |
| 5 | Yeah , she could n't get them back on , it was that |
| 6 | so I went in to pull them out , then I rang her rang her wee fella , she came round on Friday night and collected them sorry she collected them and she could n't get them back to , till the Tuesday , Tuesday . |
| 7 | The kids had already been put in voluntary care due to the car crash and I could n't get them back until three months after I came out . |
| 8 | Yeah and people some were could n't get them out of car and broken legs and |
| 9 | Did the wives say , ‘ Had a good day , dear ? ’ and did the husbands reply , ‘ Not bad except that poor Fred could n't get it up at all . |
| 10 | Probably a child molester , probably could n't get it up for anything normal . |
| 11 | But I could n't get it out of my mind . ’ |
| 12 | I could n't get it out of them who had paid for her , but old Alex the cleaner told me on the side : Boswell , Slim Boswell . ’ |
| 13 | I could n't get it out of my mind . |
| 14 | All about how he was a bit of a shit , and you could n't get it out of your mind while you were reading The Waste Land . |
| 15 | He just could n't get it out of his mind , not for one second . |
| 16 | I know it 's not logical , but I could n't get it out of my head that Silvia blamed me . |
| 17 | I could n't get mine out of the packet |
| 18 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 19 | A mysterious man , she admitted , because she could n't get anything out of her daughter about him , but a man all the same . |