Example sentences of "[pers pn] could get a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taff continued talking in his very strong Welsh accent as he inspected the Bren , asking questions and giving himself the answers before I could get a word in . |
| 2 | If I could get a job doing summat like that I reckon I would n't have to stay at Combe Court . |
| 3 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 4 | Anyway , I was told to accompany David on the Express if I could get a visa and off I went to Washington DC to apply for one and they told me absolutely not — I could n't have one — go away . |
| 5 | ‘ Would it be possible , if I could get a job , to pay for her in a private home , with part of her pension added on ? |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think I could get a job in London ? |
| 7 | Do you think this is a good idea and do you think I could get a reduction on my Road Tax Fund Licence as 50 per cent of my journeys are made on two wheels ? |
| 8 | Uncle used to tie the legs of the poor beast and then I could get a fleece off , but it was a method expert shearers used to scorn . |
| 9 | I have proved this to some extent by night netting , when I have found I could get a double catch off the same ground by netting both before and after midnight in the same night . |
| 10 | I could get a corpse . ’ |
| 11 | If both of you came , I could get a woman photographer along , so we could actually have an err , a — you know , err , a nice evening … ha-ha-haa-ha ! |
| 12 | ‘ I could get a job as a mechanical grabber down at Southend Pier , ’ he joked . |
| 13 | I was hoping that P & I 's would be having a sale and that I could get a new concordance but she would n't even let me look . |
| 14 | Then he set Mick off into another spasm of laughter when he asked , ‘ Do you think I could get a job alongside you in the factory ? ’ |
| 15 | Here , I think I could get a bit for the wallet , it 's pigskin , did you notice ? ’ |
| 16 | It was minutes before I could get a word in . |
| 17 | ‘ I could get a job and live by myself in a bed-sitting room , like the girls in stories in magazines . ’ |
| 18 | I could get a job over here in England if that 's what you want . |
| 19 | I 'd love to know where I could get a manual . |
| 20 | I I had er a return ticket from York to Gloucester and I was fortunate enough to get a lift back so I went into the station to ask if I could get a refund on the other half of the return and they said Sure you owe us four pounds . |
| 21 | So I do n't know whether you want to go and see her rather than , I could get a doctor to go and see her and phone , . |
| 22 | I wished Tod would go and dig out that black chest of his , so that I could get a proper look at this Irene . |
| 23 | I dropped my handkerchief so that I could get a closer look . |
| 24 | So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two . |
| 25 | I could get a job anywhere … ’ |
| 26 | No , I could get a baby-sitter , it 's just that I do n't want to go out . |
| 27 | Also , there was a pleasant inn about a quarter of a mile away where I could get a room if the tide — in the way of tides — served at some merciless hour of the early morning . |
| 28 | She 'd sat on my lap in a friendly way , true , but that was just so I could get a better fix on her rug . |
| 29 | Er it 's just to see if I could get a repeat prescription for the pill . |
| 30 | and I think for four hundred and eighty quid I could get a very nice real computer . |