Example sentences of "could [adv] get [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Twenty years ago when I got married you could only get squares with royal icing and gold stuck all over them . |
| 2 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 3 | the time he phoned he could only get Friday of the first week |
| 4 | I mean it was what , what and if you go through all the papers you can see that , that Robert Maxwell really saw that self regulation erm legislation being that he could finally get control through an investment management company of his pension funds . |
| 5 | On page 13 MARY BAILEY already has the cichlids — but if she could just get hold of a six foot tank … |
| 6 | If you could just get hold of say , the rainbow |
| 7 | But if they needed it , they knew they could always get work with him . |
| 8 | But he could always get work in good old BBC radio : that was his stamping ground . |
| 9 | It could also get £140,000 in grants and investment from the council and the local equivalent of GLEB if it moved north . |
| 10 | Butchers are , on the whole , an ingenious breed , and they could probably get hold of some if you pressed them . |
| 11 | One of the things that was popular was that the smaller things like rabbit clubs when people could then get food for them officially if they did that . |
| 12 | They 're they 're the sort of things that you could never get hold of , you know , that we always kept ourselves . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I was utterly miserable , ’ she recalls , ‘ I was in the position where I could actually get work to a standard that was good enough to attract support but there were n't any funds . ’ |
| 15 | We 've tried to frame our motion as carefully as we could t so we could actually get support from everybody . |