Example sentences of "i could get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could get all sorts of reasonable tones , but live or recorded I was n't hearing the sound of an AC30 ; all I could hear was the Power Tool 's solid state amp and the massive amount of EQ I was adding and taking away . |
| 2 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |
| 3 | I could get fresh fish from the quay if I hurried . |
| 4 | I decided to abandon my earlier plan of just walking around until dawn and instead to try and find somewhere where I could get some sleep . |
| 5 | ‘ I merely shut you up so I could get some sleep ! ’ |
| 6 | If only I could get some relief from this headache … ’ |
| 7 | De Villiers grinned disarmingly. ‘ 'T WOULD not be so bad if I could get some work done so I could visit her now and then , but there 's little chance of that with the Bishop running to the Queen every five minutes . ’ |
| 8 | So I was looking at the slide sitting on the strings , and looking at the major third on the fretboard , and then I said , ‘ If only I could get this note here . ’ |
| 9 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 10 | The closest I could get last night was a flight to Chicago . ’ |
| 11 | Families were breaking down when I was a probation officer in King 's Cross , but then I could get these kids rent money for private accommodation up front . |
| 12 | And I tears of course , you know , and er the poor old man he was a very small man , Mr , and er he lifted me up and told me never to mind , i could get another shilling . |
| 13 | He went on : ‘ I could get more money if I gave up performing for master classes but I do n't continue working for the money . |
| 14 | Geez I wish I could get more satisfaction out of this place . |
| 15 | At which Lupescu collapses in fits of hysterical laughter , and crawls over to Ceauşescu and embraces his knees and kisses his feet , saying , ‘ Thank you , Comrade , for a joke like that , I could get ten dollars ! ’ |