Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] i [modal v] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had a marvellous clear out — got every single shirt on to the line — and when you take that off you could put it in the bucket so I can get it out tomorrow . ’ |
| 2 | As Derek Brown of Birchfield , who at 13 years old and speculating on a career in athletics , spending two evenings and a Sunday morning training , said : ‘ I do n't let it bother my school work 'cause I can get it all done in my other time , but this [ athletics ] is what I 'd really like to do ; I keep setting myself goals every year to get to the top . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got another hour before I 'm on , get the cover back on the engine so I can get some sleep . ’ |
| 4 | It would be a help if I could get about the countryside when he was working . |
| 5 | ‘ I need extra manpower until I can get spare staff over from London . |
| 6 | I worked my way back through the hop field until I could get over the fence and into the wood . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I have to say I prefer the four hour cos I can get eight hours ' taping on mine . |
| 9 | Good I 'm pleased about that , so I did n't really want somebody coming all the way down from the West End cos I 'm I , I 'm what I would call a buyer , I 'm only going to be a buyer if I can get money from somewhere that I do n't know you know what I mean . |
| 10 | We had another seventy miles till London and at least another fifteen until the next junction where I could get out . |
| 11 | Usually I pick the single note and hammer on the chord so I can get a polyrhythmic sort of thing going . |
| 12 | realistically I would like a job if I could get one and I 'm feeling very pessimistic about getting one , because the chances of getting a job at my age , when there 's youngsters coming around |
| 13 | And Lawrence confirmed yesterday : ‘ I would not discount making a move if I could get him for something like £700,000 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , it wo n't hurt there for a bit till I can get down , ’ murmured Peggy , and struggled up higher and on to the topmost branches . |
| 15 | Put your arm up a little bit till I can get this pulled down over your feet . |
| 16 | I had problems at first , but I have had more help from your magazine than I could get from the instruction book especially with the Fair Isle necklines . |
| 17 | and normally somebody 'll phone him up oh it 'll be a week before I can get out . |
| 18 | And then , the week after I 'll get the other |
| 19 | ‘ I could score on Wednesday and become a national hero , but a week after I could get into a little incident and it would be all over the back pages again and I 'm a villain . |
| 20 | She 's promised to give me some schooling if I can get to chapel in the mornings . |
| 21 | Can you let me have a phone number where I could get you this evening ? " |
| 22 | The third time I heard this trail ( as they are called ) , I dashed off a quick letter about my coffin difficulties , asking , at the same time , that if the producer considered my problem worth airing , could I be provided with a tape-recorder so I could get some of the more pompous prevarications dished out by the trade on permanent record ? |
| 23 | And I came to ask the doctor if I could get H R T. And she took my blood pressure and it was too high |
| 24 | Sometimes , when he had been sitting near the side of the boat , an ill-considered back cast sent him flying into the water ; and often it was a close run thing before I could get the landing net under his sodden frame . |
| 25 | I came here to escape from the problems of my life in London and , without really meaning to , I came as far east as I could get . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I really want someone to come along with an order so I can get on and make half a dozen . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think I could stand being a nurse because I would get too involved , so I hope one day to join the fire brigade , ’ she said . |
| 28 | Much to my disgust I then found myself as far from the sea as I could get — Heathrow Airport , which was just in its infancy but beginning to grow rapidly with the postwar boom in air travel . |
| 29 | The annual camp for secondary schools Cadet Corps gave me my first holiday away from home , but I was so homesick that a fortnight seemed an impossibly long time before I could get back to my parents and family . |
| 30 | I want as precise a time of death as I can get . |