Example sentences of "[noun] they could get " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the sellers were not normally asking the maximum wage which the traffic would bear and offering in return the minimum quantity of labour they could get away with . |
| 2 | While this obviously placed great limitations on the evidence available to social anthropologists it also spared them.the problems of trying to find out what help they could get from documentary sources . |
| 3 | They would need all the help they could get from beach surveys and marker canoes , so 50 Combined Operations Assault Pilotage Parties ( COPPs ) were proposed . |
| 4 | Any cake they could get hold of he advised them to eat . |
| 5 | Allen wondered what comedy they could get up to in a hotel room , and he decided they could smash the place up , with everything falling apart around them . |
| 6 | C. A few years ago , a group of farmers in eastern Britain decided that the market price they were offered for milk , from dairy cows fed on grass , was not as good as the price they could get for beef cattle , which are fattened in pens by being fed with crops of barley . |
| 7 | They would sell it at the best price they could get for it . |
| 8 | You do n't want them emerging with the queasy feeling they could get whacked over the head on their way back to the car . |
| 9 | With the exception of a few books and some china , everything had had to go ; for there were those bills to be paid , and besides , they needed every penny they could get . |
| 10 | Brian they could get at , but not Alix . |
| 11 | Most of the pieces , certainly , needed all the dramatising they could get . |
| 12 | And Friday afternoon they could get away |
| 13 | He knew they needed any extra money they could get and would let Barbara stay in their spare room without asking questions . ’ |
| 14 | Both needed all the space they could get . |
| 15 | Some took a pride in their work and explained that by using the override they could get a better product . |
| 16 | FOR THEIR first UK appearance in 20 years , Germanic rockers Faust chose London 's notorious Marquee club as the venue to strut their stuff , surely the nearest equivalent they could get to the bowels of Hell ! |
| 17 | Both girls were keen cyclists and since they lived near the road they could get out and about . |
| 18 | And we were living in very a abnormal times , and women were snatching at a little bit of happiness they could get , you know this is what it was . |
| 19 | The only reason they could get Miss Grower on the staff was that Incident at her previous school , you know … ’ |
| 20 | It was the nearest thing they could get to having a castratus ; he was already a political eunuch , him and Teixeira both . |
| 21 | Tell me , Tom Hanks , what 's the worst thing they could get up to between the pair of ‘ em ? ’ |
| 22 | While at the hostel they could get a free pass to visit any cinema or theatre so a decent life was possible on the half pay rehearsal salary . |
| 23 | At harvest services when the church was crowded and extra seats were needed the stewards simply borrowed what chairs they could get form the neighbours living down the White Row in Carrickblacker Road . |
| 24 | There was a number of men who had passed for Sergeant 's rank , and the only way they could get it was to report another policeman so they could go to the chief constable on a discipline charge . |
| 25 | If they harmed her there was no way they could get off the train other than jumping and , with it travelling at over ninety-five miles an hour , that did n't seem a very good idea . |
| 26 | Women who told me that their partners accused them of using tears to manipulate them agreed that there were times when they deliberately wept , but said that it was often the only way they could get their partner 's attention . |
| 27 | It was very useful for people , because it was the only way they could get the bit of money on a Monday . |
| 28 | The only way they could get any semblance of acting was for Alex to speak a whole sentence , Michael to wait for the end , and then repeat it . |
| 29 | Two new acts had come into the show and they needed all the orchestra time they could get before going into Scranton . |
| 30 | Well , er the reason was erm technique and science and they 'd , they all the firms or who was in business had to make locks their own way , you know what I mean and use the best facilities they could get hold of , but science and progress came into being and they cou they made what you could call locks erm repetition . |