Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] could get " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to abandon my earlier plan of just walking around until dawn and instead to try and find somewhere where I could get some sleep . |
| 2 | We had another seventy miles till London and at least another fifteen until the next junction where I could get out . |
| 3 | Also , there was a pleasant inn about a quarter of a mile away where I could get a room if the tide — in the way of tides — served at some merciless hour of the early morning . |
| 4 | Can you let me have a phone number where I could get you this evening ? " |
| 5 | According to the information on the disk , the price was $7.95 or I could get another two included for $20 . |
| 6 | In a short while she would be installed in a quiet hotel room where she could get on with her work , and try to forget about the arrival of that frightening letter . |
| 7 | To start off Changez 's career in the grocery business , Anwar instructed him to work on the till , where you could get by with only one arm and half a brain . |
| 8 | Or you could get a life instead . |
| 9 | Perhaps you could c come from you see , but you would n't be able to come near Amlwch or you could get to Amlwch and you could n't get to . |
| 10 | or we 'll get you one , or you could get it through your local news agency . |
| 11 | ‘ Is there anywhere near here where we could get some bread and cheese ? ’ asked Breeze , thinking that at this moment she could eat a dog-biscuit with gusto . |
| 12 | Eels are not thought to go down to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic where they could get such indications from the sea floor . |
| 13 | He wanted to go somewhere where he could be alone — where he could get some peace . |
| 14 | It is such that nothing could get in the way of its operation save changes logically inconsistent with it or with its effect or with a causal sequence of which it and its effect are parts . |
| 15 | When there were , the engine driver would stop the train and get out of his cab and shoo them off , and sometimes he 'd wait so that everyone could get down from the carriages and stretch their legs and pick blackberries before they set off again . |
| 16 | The underlying objective of the PMUG is to encourage the free flow of information between users so that everyone could get the best out of PageMaker . |
| 17 | I ran along the stony path to Sam 's large shed in my socks and hardly felt the discomfort , and found to my relief that I could get inside easily enough — no lock on the door . |
| 18 | Sometimes I feel that I could get to the point where I 'd let her get on the bus [ transport to day care ] in the morning and then ring them up later and say ‘ Do n't bring her back because I wo n't let her in ’ … |
| 19 | ‘ He was a big man , but I had studied martial arts and felt confident that I could get away if he made the wrong move . |
| 20 | At around midnight , the chairman used my pregnancy — I was huge by then — as an excuse to break up the meeting : he said that even if no one else was tired , he thought we ought to disperse so that I could get my rest ! |
| 21 | I was hoping that P & I 's would be having a sale and that I could get a new concordance but she would n't even let me look . |
| 22 | I like to read about my time and it was only really in the style magazines that I could get in touch with people of my generation — black or white . |
| 23 | They had both been so kind , caring and helpful during the whole of Nigel 's illness — staying with him so that I could get out to shop and have a break , taking him to his hospital appointments because their car was bigger and therefore more comfortable for him , and in dozens of other , smaller but no less important ways . |
| 24 | I popped in on yer to see if I could do anything for yer , like did yer want a medical bandage that I could get cheap . |
| 25 | I hated Gionesca because he complained all the time , and I knew that I could get away with hating him because I was stronger and fitter than him . |
| 26 | When , and if , I got to the 2ème Régiment Étranger des Parachutistes I hoped that my efforts during basic training would pay off , and that I could get involved , if not in a war , then in something physically and militarily more adventurous than anything I had done so far . |
| 27 | The child itself would want to know who its father was , and the fact that I could get no comfort from the circumstances would be no excuse for hiding them from — him , her ? |
| 28 | Just as I was trying to find a hole in the hedge , so that I could get into the next field , I saw another giant coming towards me . |
| 29 | I knew exactly where to stop it so that I could get off and go down the ladder , sneak a cup of tea or something . |
| 30 | Er er always played football or tennis and I I played all sports that I could get hold of . |