Example sentences of "[vb mod] not get at " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Edward could not get at them here without the hazards of the river-crossing , neither could they get at him . |
| 2 | My mother , having been deprived of one prospective son-in-law , Cedric , now got it in to her head that I might meet an American , and decide to marry him and live the rest of my life in the USA , where she could n't get at me and see what was going on . |
| 3 | She had a feeling it was in that carpet-bag , but could n't get at the bag . |
| 4 | At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports . |
| 5 | Where the women could n't get at him and talk . |
| 6 | She … she wanted to provide me with something to be able to go off with Emma where he could n't get at her . |
| 7 | There they were , sitting on the computer screen , and I could n't get at them , could n't decipher their genes . |
| 8 | Now he 's about to get the follow-up treatment he could n't get at home . |
| 9 | Boyle said : ‘ I was trying to keep hold of him so he could n't get at me . |
| 10 | otherwise they could n't get at things properly . |
| 11 | The VAT returns for the last quarter are due in , and that big ( very profitable ) convention which took over the hotel for three weeks last year is imminent but you ca n't get at your data . |
| 12 | Either keep an astute cat , or make sure traps are set inside drainpipes where pets and birds ca n't get at them . |
| 13 | I ca n't get at the underside of my staircase ; how can I fix loose treads from above ? |
| 14 | There is data buried still which even I ca n't get at . |
| 15 | A happy theatre a happy ship if you like a corny phrase to use is very very apparent and I 'm sure my colleagues and friends around here would appreciate because they do believe they ca n't get at the management committee and they would like to so please Tom will that be possible at some time in the near future ? |
| 16 | ( My 39-cm reflector has five finders , on the theory that the finder you want to use is always the one which you ca n't get at . ) |
| 17 | So if , for example , I believe that you 've got your belief about whether there 's honey by an especially good method which I ca n't use ( because I ca n't get at your honey pot ) , then I will naturally want to adopt your belief , in order to acquire with it its high chance of being true . |
| 18 | Our problem is we ca n't get at the buyers . |
| 19 | The result is as many blank pages as Ventura can build into the current chapter and you ca n't get at the tagged block of text to de-select it ! |
| 20 | ‘ So we ca n't get at the marriage certificate , ’ George brooded . |
| 21 | This means you can also tailor rooms for others to use so that they ca n't get at applications you do n't want them to use . |
| 22 | Now , you can see that coin down there , if you look carefully , you can see it you ca n't get it , you know where it is , it has n't gone through a hole into the centre of the earth it has n't , sort of , disappeared into outer space , you know exactly where it is , the chances are you could pin point it within a few inches of where i , even if you ca n't see it you know where it is , but you ca n't get at it to you , it 's lost you know it 's geographic location , you know when it went there , you know everything about it , you only thing is you ca n't get at it ! |
| 23 | Now , you can see that coin down there , if you look carefully , you can see it you ca n't get it , you know where it is , it has n't gone through a hole into the centre of the earth it has n't , sort of , disappeared into outer space , you know exactly where it is , the chances are you could pin point it within a few inches of where i , even if you ca n't see it you know where it is , but you ca n't get at it to you , it 's lost you know it 's geographic location , you know when it went there , you know everything about it , you only thing is you ca n't get at it ! |
| 24 | Now in a sense , it has n't changed it 's form one little bit , it is still a pound it is still currency , it still has purchasing power , the only problem is , it 's just out of your reach , and you ca n't get at it . |
| 25 | It hides behind mother so that Brian ca n't get at it . |
| 26 | bloody hell , yeah , my box in , I think my speaker boxes are glued together , you ca n't get at erm |
| 27 | 1.46 Given this formality of pleading it is easy to overlook the basic rule that what one does not plead one will not get at trial . |
| 28 | So , we think for a little while ahead you should go to a school where you 'll be looked after ; I mean , where you can sleep , and where he wo n't get at you . ’ |
| 29 | Even if we can not get at ‘ the truth itself ’ and ‘ be admitted into the very inner shrines of nature ’ , we can at least ‘ glimpse … some slight image of it ’ , and ‘ live among certain of the outer altars ’ . |
| 30 | This fellowship does not of course embrace Rome ; in Pilgrim 's Progress , Christian encounters Giant Pope , old and biting his nails because he can not get at the pilgrims , and mumbling to them , ‘ You will never mend till more of you be burned . ’ |