Example sentences of "that [pers pn] could get [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I feel that I could get to the point where I 'd let her get on the bus [ transport to day care ] in the morning and then ring them up later and say ‘ Do n't bring her back because I wo n't let her in ’ … |
| 2 | It was sufficiently central that I could get to my university department or the College in my electric wheelchair . |
| 3 | As for the little animals , the gerbils , white mice and hamsters , they had to die their muddy little ploppy deaths so that I could get to the Skull of Old Saul . |
| 4 | Just as I was trying to find a hole in the hedge , so that I could get into the next field , I saw another giant coming towards me . |
| 5 | I like to read about my time and it was only really in the style magazines that I could get in touch with people of my generation — black or white . |
| 6 | No , but she said like , she said it could come today cos she says they deliver I says is there no way I said you can give me a number I said that I could get in contact , she said no , she said were 're not allowed to do that |
| 7 | And a chain there and we used to tie her to this chain so that she could get into the box and out again , and then we used to put the cubs there first in the straw and then we used to put her there do you see . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , great , ’ she said , and she hitched up her dress so that she could get to her feet ; there was simply no elegant way of doing it . |
| 9 | Another more immediate solution would be to combine an outing with others who live near you so that you could get into town on a bus and then share a taxi back ; or ask a car owner to give you a lift , in exchange for petrol money and perhaps some skill that you can offer . |
| 10 | Assuming that one 's locker and bedspace was satisfactory , the Sergeant would salute and leave the room , meaning that you could get into bed and go to sleep . |
| 11 | It was seldom that we could get through this protecting screen to reach the observation aircraft . ’ |
| 12 | To keep things relatively simple , I 'm going to stick to true beliefs that we could get by observation , like beliefs about the presence or absence of honey , even though in fact we get most of them by communication : by being told things . |
| 13 | How then do we get true beliefs of the sort that we could get by observation ? |
| 14 | I think probably Chairman , it 's the best deal that we could get in the circumstances . |
| 15 | Knowing that half of Scotland had left their cars sitting in the middle of roads to make sure that they could get to the gig is not so much my horror story as the police 's , she chuckled . |
| 16 | Cornelius found the habit mildly annoying , but as he prided himself that he could get through any interview with Mr Yarrow without uttering a single word , he refrained from comment . |
| 17 | Jimmy saw him coming through blurred vision and wished that he could get to his feet , but he could n't move . |
| 18 | Crane cut back into the forest to make a circuit so that he could get beyond the horses . |
| 19 | He had never been used for a hit , and it was unlikely that he could get from Moscow to Tbilisi anyway . |