Example sentences of "could [vb infin] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing I noticed was that they 're all close questions , you like the area , now Martin was very fair to you because you , he was very me most you could 've got very much did you move because of your , yes . |
| 2 | I tore along the beach like a maniac , looking for some kind of boat I could borrow to get away . |
| 3 | it was all I could do to get home . |
| 4 | But before Lowe could hope to get there , he had a party to survive . |
| 5 | I could have got away with murder that Saturday night , although under the present circumstances I had better add that I made no attempt to do so . |
| 6 | It would be a fitting tickle — if he could have got away with it . |
| 7 | She could have got away with it and he had more than once suggested she should , begged her almost . |
| 8 | Maybe he could have got away with it in his native Greek but not in English . |
| 9 | But I would have thought you could have got away with banking once a week . |
| 10 | Communism had been his religion , the romantic , revolutionary communism of 1917 and Petrograd and the streets full of soldiers and sailors and workers and red flags and armoured cars that looked as if they were made of galvanised steel buckets , and the cruiser Aurora out on the river with its searchlight blazing — now there was a fairground panel he could have painted if only he could have got away with it — but it was n't the same any more . |
| 11 | And in that time a whole regiment of cavalry could have got away . |
| 12 | … and it does mean that I think there is a pressure perhaps grows out of that to make you articulate clearly why you are putting the course together in the way you are … which previously you could have got away with . |
| 13 | ‘ That one could have got away … ’ |
| 14 | Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that many people in this country find it almost inconceivable to understand how such a crook as Maxwell could have got away with what he did for so long without the Crown prosecution service being in any way involved ? |
| 15 | He could have got away with fourteen months with remission . ’ |
| 16 | George Michael could have got away with it , but then he can get away without shaving . |
| 17 | We you know , I could have got away with giving you seventeen and half percent ! |
| 18 | He , Rufus , could have got just about enough together for the petrol en route and maybe his own food . |
| 19 | That was when everything could have got really ugly if the man had n't sided with her . |
| 20 | ‘ With better air support they could have got across . |
| 21 | I would have thought that you could have got more than 32Kb of Upper memory from QRAM . |
| 22 | The sad thing is that we could have got more conclusive results . |
| 23 | It would have been nice if we could have got together , but the truth is there was n't enough enthusiasm on either side . |
| 24 | If he had fought Dadda , with the backing of the school and the rumblings there had been about court orders to override parents , if he had struggled , he could have got there . |
| 25 | Although they only took 20 minutes to arrive , if George could have given a map reference , as well as his address , they could have got there that much sooner . |