Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [adv] get a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is posed with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 2 | People can not be photographed well at a quarter of a second … = The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is poised with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 3 | ‘ Not if I know Chopper. 'E 'll most prob'ly get a cab an' then do anuvver runner , ’ Freddie laughed . |
| 4 | if you have R ten times what it was in the pres the previous one , you 'll now only get a tenth of the current out . |
| 5 | And some years you 'd probably maybe get a few pounds back and sometimes you would er maybe have to pay a few pounds . |
| 6 | It was absurd that Norman Ward Westerman and Lord Boddy should listen with real deference to his views on Halifax , while at home he could n't even get a hearing from his own wife . |
| 7 | " Great pity we could n't even get a glimpse of her . |
| 8 | He referred to a dinner given in honour of A. R. Orage , the retiring editor whom Philip Mairet was to replace , which was of inordinate length and at which there were interminable speeches , and where — this was represented as the ultimate horror , uttered in the tones of a cri de coeur — ‘ you could n't even get a drink ! ’ |
| 9 | Anyway , ’ she added with a rueful look , ‘ I could n't even get a cup of tea . |
| 10 | One could n't just get a campaign up and running overnight — although the recession bit both ways , so at least there would be space available in the media for short-term bookings . |
| 11 | Chance here for Forest perhaps Collimore pulls it back but then could n't either get a shot or a pass it effectively . |
| 12 | Goodnight discounts rumours that his company could n't actually get a version of SAS to work on that particular platform , saying the firm is n't working on such a port now , and has no plans to do any other Motorola Inc 680X0 implementations besides the Unix one it offers currently . |
| 13 | Sometimes you 'd maybe not get a steamer for maybe maybe six weeks if the wind was to the South East . |
| 14 | I could never quite get a picture of her from Elizabeth . |
| 15 | I ca n't even get a bus pass . |
| 16 | See , I ca n't even get a proper handle on their mythology . |
| 17 | They ca n't even get a council house out there ! |
| 18 | Ca n't even get a boy to deliver ! |
| 19 | You ca n't even get a compromise really round here in that you 've got ta have one or the other . |
| 20 | I had a Yorkshire , ca n't even get a |
| 21 | And we ca n't even get a decent piece of grub round this place now . |
| 22 | We ca n't even , and the worse thing is we ca n't even get a decent piece of grub round this place any more . |
| 23 | We ca n't even get a decent piece of grub . |
| 24 | I play in all types of weather and very few people play tennis anyway so you ca n't always get a game . |
| 25 | Now you ca n't really get a coherent staffing policy within a school in that kind of flux , whereas now people perhaps erm a bit too much at the opposite extreme but nevertheless erm do know that they 're committed to being in the school and have a , therefore a commitment to it , a commitment to improving their own work and , and their collective work . |
| 26 | We ca n't really get a feel for the man at the moment , except as a personality , and that is coming across through the media as Terry points out , various aspects of his personality . |
| 27 | If this is so , then we shall almost certainly get a cookbook , and the standard-setters will be doomed forever to the thankless task of blocking , after the event , all the ingenious but undesirable accounting schemes that the wit of man can devise . |
| 28 | A computer programmer would almost certainly get a computer to do it that way , but I doubt whether the brain does . |
| 29 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ The battle is not yet over , the battle for the survival of the National Health Service , for proper investment in children who go to local maintained schools , to protect learning and independence in the universities and broadcasting , to secure freedom of information and reform of our democracy , and ensure we shall never again get a government that will use unemployment and recession as its main economic weapon . ’ |
| 30 | You will not always get a reply but you may be surprised at how often you do . |