Example sentences of "[pron] could not get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't get CNN in the glorious Econo Lodge , but I wondered what had become of Arnett and Shaw and Holliman . |
| 2 | ‘ I went from feeling useless because I could n't get work to feeling defiant . |
| 3 | I could n't get hold of Desmond Ingard , then I remembered Andrew Stavanger , whom , I must say , I trusted a good deal more . |
| 4 | Yes yes of co of course I was , but i could n't get hold of Dr and I thought well we 're gon na have to try it this way anyway at some stage . |
| 5 | I could n't get hold of him yesterday ! |
| 6 | Erm I could n't get Greenbaum . |
| 7 | ( I could n't get Tony Benn to comment on that one so we 'll have to make do with Radio One 's Janice Long ) . |
| 8 | ‘ But , as a loner , I could n't get trade discounts from the best fabric manufacturers . ’ |
| 9 | June described the depth of her frustration when she could not get Robert to respond to her words . |
| 10 | But a wallet would contain all sorts of personal items which she could n't get hold of . |
| 11 | And she could n't get David 's kisses and caresses out of her mind . |
| 12 | A reserve of justice remained with the King , and so those who could not get relief in the King 's ordinary courts might , with some hope of success , petition the King and his Council for redress , if not as a matter of right at least as a favour . |
| 13 | Craig Brewin , chairman of the Football Supporters Association , said fans who could not get tickets for big matches would face ‘ frustration ’ if they could not afford satellite dishes . |
| 14 | Dr. Marten shoes were most frequently seen on younger kids who could n't get hold of suedehead shoes . |
| 15 | And that 's how I started to go into grocery , because you could n't get fruit . |
| 16 | Only I just turned into grocery because you could n't get fruit , when you want Well you had a bit but not much . |
| 17 | Well there was a it was such a job at that time you could n't get work and we , we used to genuinely look for work every day , but it was just a waste of time . |
| 18 | But however I suppose it but it takes it 's like everything else but it 's a dead it really is a trade er Graham was saying to m to me when I was down in London , he says , It 's a pity mum that you could n't get work you know , I mean , you just did n't have the you know , your age and that to start work down here , he says , there 'd be plenty of work for you . |
| 19 | The same reasoning , I suspect , saw to it that at one time you could n't get olives , only peanut and crisps , in smart bars in Spain , because olives were what peasants ate . |
| 20 | ‘ You could n't get board and lodging for £50 a year , but we 've heaps of room , and you could write to your heart 's content . |
| 21 | The sort of secretary you could n't get hold of at Harris , Harris and Overdene . |
| 22 | Because I could n't er i mean Chris was one minute he was on the phone , the next minute you could n't get hold of him . |
| 23 | I 've got nearly over five hundred quid , then the petrol and then food where you could n't get food donated , and new tyres for the bike before I went so you could only get on the road . |
| 24 | Erm and again I put erm things about putting details in the post although you , although you did try and overcome that one erm but you , you just could n't , you could n't get Steven to realize the benefit of you actually going round with the illustrations rather than you just sending it and you needed to get , to get the appointment out of him rather than because if he got the illustrations in the post he may never read them . |
| 25 | Yeah At one time we could n't get Jessy to talk , he 'd got a little girl with er and |
| 26 | I ca n't remember the wages they paid us but we could n't get work in the shops anyway . |
| 27 | ‘ You see , we could n't get gigs in the city of Cork , so we used to play these places around the county . |
| 28 | We could n't get seats in the main tent . |
| 29 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 30 | Now the reason that erm they , they were trying to promote the use of tampons was that one could n't get cotton to make cotton wool and so it was n't possible any , any erm er erm sanitary garments that were made of cotton were commandeered and used for people in essential war work or the armed forces . |