Example sentences of "could [adv] get [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion he could only get 5in so he told one of the shunters , George Dyson , what had happened and asked him to go back along the fish vans and find out if a bag was off . |
| 2 | Once more the driver tried the vacuum and again could only get 5in . |
| 3 | ‘ Twenty years ago when I got married you could only get squares with royal icing and gold stuck all over them . |
| 4 | 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 . ) |
| 5 | the time he phoned he could only get Friday of the first week |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On page 13 MARY BAILEY already has the cichlids — but if she could just get hold of a six foot tank … |
| 8 | If you could just get hold of say , the rainbow |
| 9 | George has asked if Pat could possibly get teaching or worship tapes for the Christians there as they are very short of any kind of material , especially the Filipinos who can not get anything from home . |
| 10 | But he could always get work in good old BBC radio : that was his stamping ground . |
| 11 | But if they needed it , they knew they could always get work with him . |
| 12 | I could always get Fenella or somebody to answer the phone and I was n't in the phone book , so I figured that if I chickened out , I could block her . |
| 13 | It could also get £140,000 in grants and investment from the council and the local equivalent of GLEB if it moved north . |
| 14 | Butchers are , on the whole , an ingenious breed , and they could probably get hold of some if you pressed them . |
| 15 | Bradshaw and Millar estimate that up to 70 per cent of lone mothers could be employed if all who said they wanted to could immediately get jobs and child care . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You could well get sugar |
| 18 | Some younger son from among Leicester 's tenants , placed by a dutiful father where he could readily get advancement . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A proclamation was issued in 1718 against " unlawful Clubs , Combinations , etc. " of wool combers and weavers : … which had illegally presumed to use a Common Seal , and to act as Bodies Corporate , by making and unlawfully conspiring to execute certain Bylaws or Orders , whereby they pretend to determine who had a right to the Trade , what and how many Apprentices and Journeymen each man should keep at once , together with the prices of all their Manufactures , and the manner and materials of which they should be wrought ; and that , when many of the said Conspiritors wanted work , because their Masters would not submit to such pretended Orders and unreasonable Demands , they fed them with Money , till they could again get employment , in order to oblige their masters to employ them for want of other hands . |
| 21 | They 're they 're the sort of things that you could never get hold of , you know , that we always kept ourselves . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | We 've tried to frame our motion as carefully as we could t so we could actually get support from everybody . |
| 25 | THE ONLY man who could actually get Deirdre nicked off him . |