Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have got [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 2 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 3 | The speaker was an ambitious young graduate , seeking accelerated promotion and not pleased at the notion he might have got into an accident-prone unit . |
| 4 | There 's no way he could have got past that guard post . ’ |
| 5 | Well now , fancy that , I wonder where he could have got to ? |
| 6 | It was no use — even if he could have got to his feet , he knew he 'd never be able to escape . |
| 7 | He could have got to the South Pole and back . |
| 8 | " Possibly — though if the medical evidence about the time of death is right it 's hard to see how he could have got to where he was in the time . |
| 9 | ‘ And he could have got into the other parts ? |
| 10 | With his keys he could have got into any part . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The prime advantage of an exit charge would have been to the investor because he would have got into our funds at a nil cost and out again at a very low cost if he held his investment for , say , three years . ’ |
| 12 | Alain was greatly distressed by his death , but , ’ she hesitated for a moment before continuing , ‘ he would have got over it in time . |