Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] could [not/n't] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | " He kept telling me I could n't get pregnant the first time , but I did . " |
| 2 | But I I could n't get over you know , I say , I had a quick look the other at Marks you know , to even do the Christmas serviettes they 're doing a lot more and they said if people are n't buying as much on the clothes side erm so they they 've come down , I mean now I can get erm come over , and I said you 've never looked at Marks I said you never buy clothes , I said have a look in Marks , I said they do some really lovely |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But a wallet would contain all sorts of personal items which she could n't get hold of . |
| 5 | So poor Willy was left in a situation where there was nobody to help him out with the f a full pool table for which he could n't get the key . |
| 6 | I tell you I could n't get going at all not . |
| 7 | You always had something … extra … something I could not get to . |
| 8 | But you know we we we we could n't get the we could n't get the paperwork done that quickly . |
| 9 | ‘ She was so hell-bent on them that when I told her I could n't get them anywhere she said ‘ Well , we 'd better make them . ’ |
| 10 | Cos without him you could n't get your harvest in and tomorrow it might be raining . |
| 11 | She had to go and she had to go and live with them he could n't get married without . |
| 12 | Could it be that this was what he could not get from Bella ? |
| 13 | The estate in Bradford where people told us they could not get credit because it had a reputation for housing defaulters ( see Appendix II , section 5 ) is an example of a physical credit ghetto , and depth-interview respondents in Finsbury ( London ) told us that their experience suggested that ‘ it has a bad name for credit ’ . |