Example sentences of "could get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sisters exchanged glances , then Miss Belle and Miss Florence nodded towards their elder sister and guide , and she , turning to Agnes said , ‘ Mrs Bretton-Fawcett said we could get five pounds of anyone 's money for it . |
| 2 | Oh , well these are substantial houses and I would imagine that for the six houses we could get twelve families , twelve families housed immediately , they 'd be substantial houses . |
| 3 | They could get hot water , but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up . |
| 4 | Among the applications he foresees are remote auditing , where accountants could get instant access to their clients ' accounting systems via an on-line data link . |
| 5 | To Emma Durham , the Treasurer , who against difficult odds kept us solvent , to Michelle O'Callaghan , the Social Secretary , whose art of mixing cocktails ensures that she will always have something to fall back on should the need arise , and to Diane Mynors , the Housechair for her ability to seek out bargains ( how many people do you know that could get 14 bottles of dishwashing liquid for 64 p . |
| 6 | We could get certain information recorded from the ticket machines , of just how many of different types of tickets were issued because what we 'd , they had double readings . |
| 7 | A few writers suggest that the Allies ( that is , the American OSS ) demanded his release so that they could get better reporting on the situation inside Vietnam than the aged Nguyen Hai Thanh , long absent from his own country , was able to provide . |
| 8 | But then if she could get set nights . |
| 9 | Yeah , it takes erm you can get half a dozen crates in you could get eleven gallon if you wanted . |
| 10 | could get extra severance pay . |
| 11 | That 's the only way he could get extra money without cutting into Bonanza 's territory . |
| 12 | But you could get that tanker gradually creeping along and moving . |
| 13 | It had been b I think a lot of the mills had been during the very , the years after the war , they had been very busy and a lot of them would build sheds and b take up looms that were , you , they probably had new looms on order but they were filled with a lot of scrap almost you know , anything they could get that work , work . |
| 14 | The first twenty five minutes , when you think we were one nil up right I thought gosh if we could get that second goal it would have made all the difference and United would have been really would have been in trouble . |
| 15 | But the point is what I 'm saying is if we could get that stuff there on Friday afternoon and get the the conveyor set to where you want 'em , because I do n't know what leads you want the lorry got there on Monday morning , wants unloading , and we 're flying about for damn leads , we we 're gon na be in trouble . |
| 16 | I could get all sorts of reasonable tones , but live or recorded I was n't hearing the sound of an AC30 ; all I could hear was the Power Tool 's solid state amp and the massive amount of EQ I was adding and taking away . |
| 17 | Mam got 'em from the nuns — you could get all sorts of things from the convent in them days . |
| 18 | No , but again in terms of creative writing and feature writing , that 's maybe you could get two people to do a duo , one from the journalist side and one from more general side |
| 19 | Needham then figured that if he could get two Rat Packers , why could n't he get three ? |
| 20 | The most pleasant surprise with materials was finding we could get ready-mixed concrete delivered and barrowed straight into the footings and foundations . |
| 21 | He needs a holiday — you both do — and I saw this as a way to ensure that you could get regular time off in the future . ’ |
| 22 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 23 | Eels are not thought to go down to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic where they could get such indications from the sea floor . |
| 24 | It will hold stock and spares and says it could get first machines as early as September from its US parent . |
| 25 | Presumably , you could get new ones ? |
| 26 | She could get other boarders , he would never , with his reputation , be taken in by any other landlady in Florence no matter what was paid . |
| 27 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |
| 28 | Do n't you realize you could get 99 years in a Federal pen for shooting your mouth off like that ? ’ |
| 29 | If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship . |
| 30 | we used to have , I used to make big pan of broth you could get gorgeous bacon bones with plenty bacon on in the Co-op in those days , it were wi it was when they , they did all the boning in the shops and you could go , get good meaty bones and I used |