Example sentences of "[pers pn] could get the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not only able to review social security , I had the opportunity as a politician of implementing the changes — always provided I could get the support of my colleagues , of course , and that was not going to be easy . |
| 2 | Now if you have an orgy there I could get the blame for this . |
| 3 | I could get the whole of to play with us . |
| 4 | Sometimes , when he had been sitting near the side of the boat , an ill-considered back cast sent him flying into the water ; and often it was a close run thing before I could get the landing net under his sodden frame . |
| 5 | ‘ Or perhaps I could get the Avery prize . ’ |
| 6 | You think to yourself , yes I could get the kids shoes or pay the gas bill . |
| 7 | We can all think of the favourites , and if I could get the Pope , Frank Sinatra and the Queen I 'd book them tomorrow . |
| 8 | I could get the conference timetable for which conferences are booked for the summer at the moment . |
| 9 | If she could get the address or the telephone number of the hotel she could warn her twin that Roman knew where she and Garry were . |
| 10 | Maybe she could get the London Underground to run on time ? |
| 11 | If Rainbow were left to her own devices , she would undoubtedly now choose to remove herself from the taxi altogether , and pace back and forth in the lay-by , enjoying the comparative peace of the rain and the fumes and the roar of the juggernauts until she could get the show back on the road once more . |
| 12 | She found she could get the attention and praise she wanted only by achieving , being good and caring for that pretty little monster she so resented . |
| 13 | She liked to watch the early evening news on BBC I and see it through to the end so that she could get the weather forecast . |
| 14 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 15 | Erm , maybe since the rams are a problem on the island , maybe you could get the horses over here , to work part of the year , and then foal , er , then you 'll an agreement to have some of the foals back . |
| 16 | I 'm not breaking my stated rule here and recommending this hotel , just saying that it is there and that if you could get the back bedrooms you would have a most remarkable scene to look out on . |
| 17 | You could get the odds because he 'd had a poor year until then by his standards . |
| 18 | Well then you could get the money off him Chris |
| 19 | Then you could get a , a piece of wood very , very rough , understand me and then cast and then you could get the cast in down to exaction , you follow what I mean and then er you could what you want . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't think you could get the lifting power . ’ |
| 21 | Nobody could figure out that you could get the switch to stick in that position . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If we could get the truck and the police cars past the Glories , perhaps we could rescue your dad and Ken . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Whereas previously we could get the money from the DSS , now there is a long , cumbersome process to go through and people are falling by the wayside because of it . |
| 24 | Almost nine months later , we found an engine without the accessories , and Continental Airlines once again came to the rescue , flying Tim , our mechanic Chuck Blanchard and me out to see if we could get the Tri-Pacer flying again . |
| 25 | Mick Feeney , a Barlinnie delegate , seconding the motion , said : ‘ The unit was of great benefit to the service because we could get the ringleaders of trouble out of the system for a while . |
| 26 | The only way we could get the equity . |
| 27 | So we could get the point two three , and we could take the gradient of that as being fairly close to the gradient of the curve . |
| 28 | ‘ We could get the tank emptied , scrubbed and refilled at Winnipeg , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Er the most interesting case erm , I remember was a chap who erm having completed his course erm joined the R A F and erm he was missing at Dieppe when they had the rather abortive attempt at landing at Dieppe during the war and er , but he was never erm posted as as erm having died and erm it was years afterwards , it was in the nineteen fifties in fact before we could get the Department of Education to agree to the loan being written off because erm obviously he was , by that time he had to be assumed as |
| 30 | We were also convinced that unless we could get the politicians and so called ‘ medical experts ’ to start exercising their minds , then the people in communities like ours would continue to die before their time and our children would be damaged before they even got a chance to live . |