Example sentences of "but [pron] [modal v] [adv] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I like to think I 've achieved the former , but I ca n't get promotion in five months . ’ |
| 2 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 3 | ‘ But I ca n't get hold of the mate in question . |
| 4 | I mean our , the more I think about it I think the main , we might even go to Germany to see my sister , so it might be next year , but I ca n't get Tony to talk at the moment , I do n't know erm , |
| 5 | Yes yes of co of course I was , but i could n't get hold of Dr and I thought well we 're gon na have to try it this way anyway at some stage . |
| 6 | So you need to have the ability to keep going but you ca n't get stamina till you 've previously got s the , the strength in the muscles to do it . |
| 7 | Kersey said : ‘ I 've been checking ; there 's nothing in his diary to say that M was a woman but you ca n't get M out of Kevin Brand . ’ |
| 8 | But you ca n't get bags now except plastic ones it was all jute bags then . |
| 9 | Yeah but you ca n't get speed on on water turbines that you can on er steam . |
| 10 | and so sometimes the , the calls do seem unreasonable but you should n't get cross , and when you go and see them sometimes you realize why they 're anxious because something that might seem quite trivial to you they might know somebody who had similar symptoms and it actually turned out to be meningitis or something so you 're then able to put their minds at rest . |
| 11 | Then buy a new fireback : standard firebacks are 16 or 18in wide , sold in one or two sections , or as one piece which can be split into two , but you can also get types with more sections for larger openings . |
| 12 | erm which we do , which we have n't got in stock at the moment , but we can always get hold of |
| 13 | I ca n't remember the wages they paid us but we could n't get work in the shops anyway . |
| 14 | But they wo n't get stickers will they ? |
| 15 | They know the demand 's there , but they ca n't get landlords to take on their brew . |
| 16 | yeah and the girls that serve in there , there 's three girls that serve in there , one works in the kitchen actually helping with the food , but the other two serve at the tables , they 've all got A levels but they ca n't get jobs |
| 17 | but the second way in which section fourteen arises is this slightly more oblique way , erm , it 's , it 's not really the question of competition law it 's more a question of administrative law or constitutional law , erm whether it arises on the question er , your Lordship will have to decide , but , if , if it does then we believe that our case is extremely strong , because what one is saying here is , is section fourteen a block to an article eighty five action , erm does it make it either virtually impossible or something lesser excessively difficult , er and we say er that that 's one aspect and two can we show it 's discriminatory , well we say first of all it is discriminatory because even on analysis of the bad faith argument they are putting in a claimant with an article eighty five case to an extraordinary length in order to make good his case , he first of all has to super declaration presumably that he is entitled to damages , but he ca n't get damages all he 's entitled to is the declaration if then do n't satisfy that claim by paying up and their not going to be ordered by the court to pay up because that 's a claim for damages and you ca n't have that then you have to sue them again on the basis of breach of bad faith , er no other provision in English law would go to that effect and that of course even , even that assumes whether rightly or wrongly and we say possibly wrongly that er , er the failure to comply with the judgment of the declaration would be bad faith within the meaning of the act , but even assuming it 's right it puts a plaintiff suing for breach of article eighty five in the worst position possible |
| 18 | He went all over the place looking , but he could n't get hold of it I mean it was obviously it was something that he made himself but it was beautiful ! |
| 19 | But he could always get work in good old BBC radio : that was his stamping ground . |
| 20 | Be aware , too , that behaving this assertively may get agreement from people and acquiescence but it may not get dedication and loyalty . |