Example sentences of "could [adv] get [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Unfortunately I could only get a ticket for the liverpool end .
2 That 's been dropped too , because the GaAs semiconductor house CDC used could only get a yield of 2% good parts .
3 On the twelfth floor of the hotel , from which they could just get a view of the distant river , they were delighted with their prosperous-looking aunt .
4 If I could just get a role doing some of the falls in the action replays , say , I could save him from horrible injury , or at least the odd booking .
5 They make the rule book mentality into an art form and could easily get a PhD in bureaucracy .
6 We did not really think they could possibly get a boat in . ’
7 I could , I could quickly get a Sunderland scarf , believe me , Ann .
8 I would suggest to you that given that and also the wording in the justification under the old Policy E three , that in fact you could hardly get a tissue paper between this policy that is now before you and the previous policy .
9 Thorfinn could hardly get a hearing , at first , for the shouting .
10 My story concerns the last England cricket tour of South Africa in 1964–65 , when during the first morning of the Durban Test the pitch was so utterly dead that Peter Pollock , at full pace , could hardly get the ball bail-high and England 's batsmen were obviously headed for a huge total .
11 While the reports that IAK sent for the official files expressed no doubt at all , by Thursday he was complaining that he could hardly get the prisoner to mention politics , let alone discuss them .
12 Before he wrote the book he could hardly get the job because he had not published a book .
13 How he was laughing at himself and he could hardly get the words out .
14 Ruth was giggling so hard she could hardly get the words out .
15 She could still get a phone call telling her sh telling her no , that 's the other thing .
16 ‘ I 'm sure you could still get a bit of teaching work , you know .
17 At the University of Loughborough there were several people who went on record as saying that you could always get a laugh out of Henry .
18 Oh you you you paid but you could always get a place there I could remember a lot of parking time when I was n't driving .
19 She did not bother to reply , her gaze withering him , and he went on thoughtfully , ‘ We could always get the Scrabble board out , I suppose .
20 WOLVES fancy Blackpool forward David Eyres and they could also get a call from Chelsea , who may fancy Mike Stowell to end their search for a goalkeeper .
21 Actually , he could probably get a game .
22 You could probably get the drummer , bassist and guitarist and their gear all in the back of a Mini , which counts for nothing when you get to the gig and turn it up , of course .
23 At least if it were pitch black we could really get an idea of what it will be like to ‘ walk through the Channel Tunnel ’ .
24 Morrison , 24 , won a unanimous verdict over a man 20 years older than him , and could now get a crack at Lewis ' WBC crown .
25 I do n't know if I could even get a job as a junior salesman .
26 You could make them the same overall diameter , you could even get the tensions to be the same , but when you play those strings they 're going to feel completely different because a string with a thin core and a heavy wrap is going to move more freely than one with a heavy core and a thin wrap .
27 You could even get an off-line-reader to cut down the phone bills to hardly anything .
28 While he could equally get the information from other sources , he finds that ‘ going there every week , you hear about what 's going on , which is a great help . ’
29 Söll is so warm-hearted you could almost get a tan from the welcome .
30 She could barely get the words past lips grown strangely dry .
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