Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [be] [adj] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said I 've not been able to get one , and I went to he said I thought with an old |
| 2 | ‘ I 've never been able to get through to you , Julius . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , that 's one thing I 've , I 've never been able to get used to , er it 's always , it 's the same , it 's hard to say goodbye . |
| 4 | ‘ I have n't been able to get enough this Christmas to satisfy my customers ' needs . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been a difficult year because I have n't been able to get into the side . ’ |
| 6 | The police are n't telling us anything — I have n't been able to get as far as Marshall and the others just look mysterious and say they do n't know . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Sorry I have n't been able to get Sergeant Henley for you . |
| 8 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
| 9 | I have n't been able to get any tickets for the Word as yet . |
| 10 | ‘ Candidates have been ringing from all over the country wanting copies ; I have only been able to get my hands on two copies yet , ’ she said . |
| 11 | MALCOLM ALLEN , who has not been able to get into the Norwich first team this season , showed that Wales ' absentee forwards , Ian Rush and Mark Hughes , had better beware of him . |
| 12 | She has not been able to get any type of work since , despite applying for eight jobs a week . |
| 13 | You 've only been able to get through the last four years by not thinking about it . |
| 14 | All that time , and she had n't been able to get him to look at her . |
| 15 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |
| 16 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 17 | You told her you had n't been able to get her out of your mind and begged for another chance . |
| 18 | And yet , gradually the reputation has gone down , it 's become an area in which erm basically people who have n't been able to get housing . |
| 19 | A similar thing has happened to Ms , especially in Britain and Australia : instead of replacing Miss and Mrs it has been added to the system to make a further distinction , referring in many people 's usage to older unmarried women , divorcees and ‘ strident feminists ’ — in other words , to ‘ abnormal ’ and ‘ unfeminine ’ women who have not been able to get — or keep — a man . |
| 20 | ‘ You have n't been able to get anyone inside ? ’ |
| 21 | you 've been overtired and you have n't been able to get to sleep very well . |
| 22 | It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked . |
| 23 | ‘ We have not been able to get a deal sorted out with whoever was going to use the property , ’ she said . |
| 24 | ‘ We have n't been able to get hold of the boy concerned since he and his family moved away soon after the incident , whatever it was . |
| 25 | Although although there 's a lot of people who feel they 're all living in the lap of luxury if you 're Post Office or B T pensioners , they are n't and we have n't been able to get this surplus er in any way used for the benefit of those people and er and that 's where the ownership of the fund really and the surplus are tied in together . |
| 26 | ‘ We have n't been able to get any more information out of him . ’ |
| 27 | and as we have n't been able to get round |
| 28 | Unfortunately we have never been able to get the evidence . ’ |
| 29 | But this was not so ; no one landing there had ever been able to get out and the nearest airport was 600 miles away . |
| 30 | Rain asked whether they had not been able to get the story published elsewhere . |