Example sentences of "can n't get a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you ca n't got a mortgage |
| 2 | All that , and I still ca n't get a mortgage . |
| 3 | ‘ Ca n't get a wink . ’ |
| 4 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 5 | You ca n't get a train otherwise . |
| 6 | David Thompson — BR : ( 0904 ) 653022 — ca n't get a reply . |
| 7 | ‘ You ca n't get a plumber these days , not for love nor money . ’ |
| 8 | I draw Donald a lot if I ca n't get a hand or an angle of an arm right . |
| 9 | ‘ Enduring ’ means nothing if you 're having a rotten time now , so you guys love Shakespeare and in the meantime I ca n't get a good hot cup of coffee in this country . |
| 10 | And you ca n't get a big powerful sound out of a bass that 's fitted with 30–95 gauge strings , because it 's actually more of a tenor guitar . |
| 11 | Angela ca n't get a full-time job . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't get a regular game for Bath 's first team so it never occurred to me that I might be selected , ’ he revealed . |
| 13 | When Ojomoh boards that plane on December 31 he steps into a new world , the elite strata of an elite sport — not bad for a lad who never saw a rugby ball until he was 13 , ca n't get a first team game and came close to being escorted to a plane by police . |
| 14 | I 've got six but we just ca n't get a win . ’ |
| 15 | If you ca n't get a replacement , lift the gutter away and apply a bed of weatherproof sealant such as Bostic 6 . |
| 16 | I ca n't get a job . |
| 17 | I draw Donald a lot if I ca n't get a hand or an angle of an arm right . |
| 18 | But he ca n't get a job — because he 's blind and deaf . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's appalling he has overcome all these hurdles yet ca n't get a job . ’ |
| 20 | Public transport is a joke : you ca n't get a train home from Cambridge after about 10pm . |
| 21 | ‘ No , he 's not coming this way , so I ca n't get a close look , but I 'm sure it 's not him . ’ |
| 22 | I would n't mind , but I ca n't get a bloody boyfriend ! |
| 23 | The trouble with anonymous contributions to this page , not that I 'm not grateful for anything I can get , is that the people who send them ca n't get a lovely Community Care mug whereas those like Nicholas Holbrook , ( see below ) who refuse to hide their creative light under a bushel , have a mug winging its way to them at this very moment . |
| 24 | If I ca n't get a response from them soon I 'll force-feed 'em my old loin-cloths ! |
| 25 | And now I 'm gon na have to leave it and go , and Denis 'll get the room , and all because this country is so fucked-up I ca n't get a job . |
| 26 | He ca n't get a job . |
| 27 | And if you think about it you ca n't get a much bigger turn out than that . |
| 28 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 29 | the parliamentarians ca n't get a straight piece of legislation through . |
| 30 | He waited a very long time before saying , ‘ Talk , talk , talk , a man ca n't get a word in edgeways . ’ |