Example sentences of "could [adv] get [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One who attended these meetings described Hinchley as ‘ an enthusiast , obviously highly strung , quick in thought and rapid in speech , as though his overfilled brain could scarcely get rid of the thoughts and ideas quickly enough — sensitive to a hostile audience but quick to respond to a friendly one ’ . |
| 2 | A lamb could not get born . |
| 3 | At the Saulnier farm ( 6 Commando area ) I washed my arm in the cattle trough but could not get rid of the smell . |
| 4 | Then equally big lefts in rounds five and seven could not get rid of a man whose courage failed to make up for obvious shortcomings . |
| 5 | Since we could not get rid of the rule , there was nothing we could do but try to operate it more sensibly . |
| 6 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 7 | The argument goes that if we had short-range nuclear weapons at the front , in the event of a rapid advance there would always be the danger that a commander would have no choice but to use those weapons , either because he could not get rid of them back to headquarters , or perhaps to start a nuclear conflagration . |
| 8 | When he came back he had their passports and documents in his hand and it seemed that he could not get rid of them quickly enough . |
| 9 | I would argue though that publication of such material when other writers could not get published is an indication of the bounds of the acceptable in public debate . |
| 10 | Since he could not get married ( marriages were never solemnized during Lent ) Richard decided to delay no longer , Philip having sailed already . |
| 11 | Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage . |
| 12 | Jane could not get worked up about any car . |
| 13 | Other critics who could not get worked up about the play also admired the acting . |
| 14 | But selling more slaves would have done it little good if it could not get paid for them , and in the 1680s the planters owed the company money for two full years supply of slaves . |
| 15 | He was still convinced that if he could somehow get rid of the tension in the neck then the other problems would automatically be resolved . |
| 16 | Something fishy : you could easily get hooked on this lovely fish design by Hinchcliffe and Barber , part of a 19-piece set . |
| 17 | True the banks made hundreds of imprudent loans in the 1970s and early 1980s ; they could hardly get rid of their money fast enough and virtually begged Third World governments to take it off their hands . |
| 18 | He could n't get involved . |
| 19 | ‘ Only after you 'd told me that you could n't get involved . |
| 20 | She had a crop of them now that she could n't get rid of , even though she was using that acne treatment that worked wonders for the girl on the telly advert . |
| 21 | After that I could n't get rid of him . |
| 22 | I certainly did n't count on having a bizarre looking pooch as a companion — I just could n't get rid of her . |
| 23 | I could n't get rid of my disability , became more staunch in my socialist politics , got rid of my accent and was thankful when my parents put themselves into enormous debt and bought a tip of a house in Croydon . |
| 24 | He made doubly sure I realised I was an outcast in a heavy-handed way — and he could n't get rid of me fast enough . |
| 25 | That monotonous , grinding voice was in his head and he could n't get rid of it . |
| 26 | The make-up did a terrific job , but could n't get rid of the two deep creases that ran from the corners of her mouth to her jawline , or the network of lines on her brow . |
| 27 | If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East . |
| 28 | She said , Ooh she 's one of the lucky ones , she said , I could n't get rid of mine . |
| 29 | And think this woman that had lost her baby she said , she 's one of the lucky so and so 's you know she lost hers , I could n't get rid of mine . |
| 30 | ‘ If I could n't get rid of him straight away , then I meant to keep an eye on him , ’ he interrupted grimly . |