Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] n't 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 | same leg , so erm , see Gary moans at me that I , he says that I eat too much erm salt , now if I was to eat that much salt I would n't get cramp |
| 10 | The judge who gave me bail had said that if I got into trouble that was it , I would n't get bail again , so obviously I thought , ‘ If I 'm going to go back , I 'll go for something worth going for . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But I ca n't get hold of the mate in question . |
| 12 | and I , I ca n't get hold of that textbook and then , and not knowing psychology before |
| 13 | I ca n't get hold of her now . |
| 14 | ‘ I like to think I 've achieved the former , but I ca n't get promotion in five months . ’ |
| 15 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
| 16 | I ca n't get Catherine and Deborah and Caroline and Amy and Clare and all their luggage |
| 17 | The sorts of experiences that you then get people talking about is really well I 've learnt to stand up for myself for the first time , erm I now know what I want to do , I know who I am , erm projects where I 've been involved , where you get women saying things like well two years ago I would never have dreamt of going and talking to the Council about my house , or my children , or that I ca n't get a job because I ca n't get child care , and I would n't have dreamt of doing that and people who now say well now I can do that , I know that I can go and stand up for myself and stand up for what I think is right , just as well as my husband can . |
| 18 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's no good , I ca n't get work . |
| 20 | they ca n't tell the difference I mean there 's nothing In fact if I ca n't get Krona at Presto and I ca n't get it at Co-op , I shall write to Kr to Pre to Krona and say I 'll have a I 'll have a box . |
| 21 | ‘ I masturbate when I ca n't get sex , and I weight train when I ca n't masturbate . ’ |
| 22 | I mean our , the more I think about it I think the main , we might even go to Germany to see my sister , so it might be next year , but I ca n't get Tony to talk at the moment , I do n't know erm , |
| 23 | Oh you can keep going though totally over the top I thought well Joseph 's was twelve ninety nine and Ben 's was fourteen nineteen ninety nine and that 's just tough that I 've got you know , I ca n't get Charlotte 's any cheaper than that , but , I mean they 're not gon na know how much I 've , they 're not gon na say well you 've got five pound more than what I have cos they 're not of that age so , that 's how I 've left it , that 's what I 'm gon na do , I 'll get her the circus and then they can swap them over and Joseph will be happy that he got something on wheels |
| 24 | Well I ca n't get asthma when he 's looking at me like that . |
| 25 | I wo n't get Ron white hankies because |
| 26 | It 'd better be after all those needles they stuck in me so I wo n't get beri-beri and co . |
| 27 | I sha n't get juice all over every where , it 'll be you . |
| 28 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
| 29 | But a wallet would contain all sorts of personal items which she could n't get hold of . |
| 30 | And she could n't get David 's kisses and caresses out of her mind . |