Example sentences of "[conj] he can [not/n't] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean he is out of work and he can not get a job . |
| 2 | Yet Henderson is also fully capable of hitting home runs if he can not get on base . |
| 3 | A man must divorce his wife if he can not get on with her ; she has a right to petition for divorce if he refuses to have sex with her . |
| 4 | This explains why he is vulnerable to the ball which moves away from him because he can not get properly into line or lean into the ball . |
| 5 | It is quite normal for the male to have to stay outside and drive his milt in with beats of his tail , because he can not get in through the reduced entrance . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Even the SIB suffers ; Mr Large has been unable to establish a new retail financial regulator , the personal-investment authority , because he can not get agreement from banks , building societies and life insurers . |
| 8 | He ‘ lets go ’ in a frightening tantrum — banging his head , kicking , screaming and yelling — when he can not get his own way , such as when you try to insist on his doing something , refuse his commands or attend to people other than himself at a time when he wants your undivided attention . |