Example sentences of "could get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With these human problems Wordsworth was deeply concerned , though it must be admitted that a superficial reading of his poetry gives the impression that he ran as hard as he could to get away from them . |
| 2 | If only Italy believed you could get ahead without it , simply by doing things well . |
| 3 | you could get nearly four thousand interviews could n't you , altogether ? |
| 4 | ‘ She is a dragon , ’ said Dinah , ‘ but she keeps me from annoyance , and Papa had the room designed so that no one could get straight in . ’ |
| 5 | If only she could get right away from him for a while , then she 'd be able to cope . |
| 6 | It might well give her a better perspective on things if she could get right away for a short time . |
| 7 | You could get both at the Turk 's Head , and coffee and Horlicks and Tizer and Eccles cakes and jam doughnuts . |
| 8 | But it 's not recommended for everyone — after all , things could get rather choppy during the rush-hour … |
| 9 | On one occasion I was round at a neighbour 's house and despite my warnings that it could get rather messy , they insisted that I show them how Dawn fed . |
| 10 | ‘ That caps it , that does , ’ said Jack , moving the pick-up so Tom who was coming up on his tractor could get past . |
| 11 | It was all sorted out after some confusion and a lot of ill-feeling ; the BMW people moved their boat forward so cars and trailers could get past it to the road . |
| 12 | ‘ I have calculated that selling the girdles at normal price — and in Leningrad this day I could get double the normal price at least — but at normal price I could still retire at the end of one day 's work . |
| 13 | ‘ Could get pretty confusing . |
| 14 | ‘ The girl was positive she could contact the Angels if only she could get deep enough into Lucifer 's atmosphere . |
| 15 | Beliefs that we could get just by thinking ( such as beliefs about logic and mathematics ) I 'm going to ignore . |
| 16 | They 've won six matches on the trot since their victory at Blaina and could get even better . |
| 17 | If they could get even some of the men in Grantley to take the blood test they would be halfway home . |
| 18 | FARMERS who regularly lease out milk quota could get even higher prices from dairy companies after the milk board system is dissolved . |
| 19 | And if you could get here by half past seven those of you who have got items , it 'll be much appreciated cos it takes quite a time to set them out . |
| 20 | She says — she says she thinks she could get well again if children believed in fairies . |
| 21 | There may be nothing else in this trick for you , but you could get dead finding out . ’ |
| 22 | According to the Malawian government if three large-scale projects were initiated along the lines of the Upper Livulezi pilot project , each serving up to 25 000 people Malawi could get somewhere near the decade target . |
| 23 | Lieberman and Michaels ( 1962 ) found that they could get reasonably accurate recognition of attitudes using short recording of sentences spoken in different ways , but that when the recordings were distorted in such a way that most acoustic information was removed ( e.g. the speech sounds , voice quality , loudness variations etc. ) leaving only the pitch information — that part traditionally equated with intonation — listeners ' ability to recognise the attitudes was seriously reduced . |
| 24 | He would not have liked it if she seemed to be saying that they could get away any time they wanted to . |
| 25 | I got the impression very quickly that she was going through a period where she was experimenting a lot with what she could get away with as an individual . |
| 26 | He knew he could get away safely because he had a reading back in London that evening , and it could n't lead to further meetings because he was going away soon . |
| 27 | It was rather nice being ill — he could get away with not clearing up his dishes . |
| 28 | He knew he could get away with asking her to do this — she had a bit of a weakness for him . |
| 29 | — You could get away from it all , out there . |
| 30 | Every time I could get away I used to drive down to New York , where I 'm originally from , and go to the Paradise Garage . ’ |