Example sentences of "[conj] we could [not/n't] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 2 | But er , we did , and we , we , were thanked on a , in a numerous ways as well with people who was able to get things that we could n't get like , and , and they give them us like , you know in return . |
| 3 | Hardstand number two was so little that we could n't get an airplane on there so we parked the gas trucks there . |
| 4 | Well they told , they , they told us that we could n't get i they could n't get us any |
| 5 | That we could n't get out . |
| 6 | Well before I got married I had this I had this fucking dream that we could n't get our hairs done , all the girls could n't their hairs done because nowhere was open . |
| 7 | The long dark evenings , the unfinished building work , the awful autumn weather , and the fact that we could not get out made these interpersonal difficulties , for which I was not prepared , much worse . |
| 8 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
| 9 | The tip was barbed and we could n't get it out . |
| 10 | And er the gate end came in , that 's where the gate men And er we were trapped in there , there were three of us , and we could n't get out , and we were there ooh about twelve hours before they managed to get us out . |
| 11 | ‘ Earth needed results and we could n't get them . |
| 12 | I wanted Keith and we could n't get him for anything less . ’ |
| 13 | Big spaces and we could n't get up and |
| 14 | And we could n't get half the books out the library because other courses had taken them , we |
| 15 | In his Walden interview , Bryan studiously refused to answer whether he would pull out of the ERM if we could n't get an acceptable exchange rate . |
| 16 | If we could n't get our act together after all that , then we were never going to . |
| 17 | We 'd all be criminals if we could n't get caught . |
| 18 | ‘ The roof was smashed in and one door was open , but we could not get him out . |
| 19 | We were on the greens fine , but we could n't get off them . |
| 20 | I ca n't remember the wages they paid us but we could n't get work in the shops anyway . |
| 21 | But we could n't get it back agen 'cause one of the wheels 'as come off . ’ |
| 22 | We tried to call our grandmother but we could n't get through . |
| 23 | We could see them , but we could n't get near because there was no wind . |
| 24 | Well we had er the business was quite good er we had er we could do , of course at the end of the war , we could have done with an awful lot more cars , but we could n't get them . |
| 25 | But we could n't get it because the no gas . |
| 26 | But , yeah we did cos we 'll all be there going to the cinema , but we could n't get in . |
| 27 | I think we were all back but we could n't get out could we ? |
| 28 | He would be wasted because we could not get enough ball to him . |
| 29 | because we could n't get anything else . |
| 30 | Since we could not get rid of the rule , there was nothing we could do but try to operate it more sensibly . |