Example sentences of "you could [adv] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the deeper holes are worth investigation and if you fish them with flake on a quiver you could well get roach or chub as well . |
| 2 | You could well get sugar |
| 3 | If you could just get hold of say , the rainbow |
| 4 | And that 's how I started to go into grocery , because you could n't get fruit . |
| 5 | Only I just turned into grocery because you could n't get fruit , when you want Well you had a bit but not much . |
| 6 | Well there was a it was such a job at that time you could n't get work and we , we used to genuinely look for work every day , but it was just a waste of time . |
| 7 | But however I suppose it but it takes it 's like everything else but it 's a dead it really is a trade er Graham was saying to m to me when I was down in London , he says , It 's a pity mum that you could n't get work you know , I mean , you just did n't have the you know , your age and that to start work down here , he says , there 'd be plenty of work for you . |
| 8 | The same reasoning , I suspect , saw to it that at one time you could n't get olives , only peanut and crisps , in smart bars in Spain , because olives were what peasants ate . |
| 9 | ‘ You could n't get board and lodging for £50 a year , but we 've heaps of room , and you could write to your heart 's content . |
| 10 | The sort of secretary you could n't get hold of at Harris , Harris and Overdene . |
| 11 | Because I could n't er i mean Chris was one minute he was on the phone , the next minute you could n't get hold of him . |
| 12 | I 've got nearly over five hundred quid , then the petrol and then food where you could n't get food donated , and new tyres for the bike before I went so you could only get on the road . |
| 13 | Erm and again I put erm things about putting details in the post although you , although you did try and overcome that one erm but you , you just could n't , you could n't get Steven to realize the benefit of you actually going round with the illustrations rather than you just sending it and you needed to get , to get the appointment out of him rather than because if he got the illustrations in the post he may never read them . |
| 14 | ‘ Twenty years ago when I got married you could only get squares with royal icing and gold stuck all over them . |
| 15 | They 're they 're the sort of things that you could never get hold of , you know , that we always kept ourselves . |
| 16 | The pattern of symptoms in this patient refutes the theory that the reason why x , y and z co-occur is that they all reflect damage to a single system ( since if that theory were true you could never get x without y ) ; indeed , this patient shows that there actually is no syndrome ( in the theoretical sense ) defined by the joint occurrence of all three symptoms . |