Example sentences of "could get [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among orange mounds of dust and evil black pools the sawyers squatted , self-reliant Lowlanders who perched here like colonists and were tolerated because the sub-tenants and cottagers on the poorest land could get a few days felling trees when they were desperate . |
| 2 | Taff continued talking in his very strong Welsh accent as he inspected the Bren , asking questions and giving himself the answers before I could get a word in . |
| 3 | The tall dark girl got off the London train and as she passed through the barrier at Stowerton station she asked the woman collecting tickets where she could get a taxi . |
| 4 | If I could get a job doing summat like that I reckon I would n't have to stay at Combe Court . |
| 5 | If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family . |
| 6 | Beasant 's goalkeeping spared Chelsea another drubbing at Crystal Palace on Boxing Day and so long as their strikers remain on target they could get a decent result today . |
| 7 | We could get a limousine at the Beverley Hills hotel but you could n't get a taxi , so everyone learned how to call down from the front desk and order whatever they needed out of necessity . |
| 8 | Anyway , I was told to accompany David on the Express if I could get a visa and off I went to Washington DC to apply for one and they told me absolutely not — I could n't have one — go away . |
| 9 | Philip jumped up to see if he could get a look in through the window . |
| 10 | How we could get a message through about the boy here . |
| 11 | ‘ Would it be possible , if I could get a job , to pay for her in a private home , with part of her pension added on ? |
| 12 | From here she could get a glimpse of the houses : ‘ luxury ’ newly-built bungalows , double garages , big picture windows , young trees , landscaped gardens with lawns so smooth and green they could have been carpets . |
| 13 | if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … . |
| 14 | Perhaps , though , you could get a message to Cabochon for me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Do you think I could get a job in London ? |
| 16 | You could get a job auditing the use of these funds in southern Italy , but I think you would be safer and richer as the man who gives them out . |
| 17 | Yet , as the latest troubles with Olympia & York and the Tokyo stock market remind us , the recession shows no sign of ending and could get a lot worse unless real interest rates are brought down with a bang — and that means willingness to put the exchange rate mechanism second to domestic monetary policy . |
| 18 | ‘ Killer in the Sky ’ said a placard , held helpfully flat so that the Board 's staff above could get a better look . |
| 19 | Do you think this is a good idea and do you think I could get a reduction on my Road Tax Fund Licence as 50 per cent of my journeys are made on two wheels ? |
| 20 | Maggie had developed a raging thirst and wondered if she could get a drink at the Commemorative Hall . |
| 21 | You could get a meal for five francs at Rosalie 's little place , and Modi often bartered a meal for drawings which she believed were worthless . |
| 22 | He joked : ‘ In England , if you were sent to a rugby league match at Batley on a night you had to park your car on the touch line and leave the headlights on and hope the players would run into the beam of light so you could get a picture . |
| 23 | If he could get a job , it might be easier to initiate some change . |
| 24 | William Cooper , for example , suggested that for his contemporaries , ‘ the Experimental Novel had got to be brushed out of the way before we could get a proper hearing ’ ( in Rabinovitz 1967 : 7 ) , and C. P. Snow explained in 1958 that : |
| 25 | He could get a couple of hamburgers and a glass of beer at the airport , then catch the evening flight to Brussels . |
| 26 | Who would pay a small fortune to come and spend a week in a draughty Highland hotel miles away from the slopes , when they could get a package holiday to somewhere snowy , romantic and convenient in the Alps for half the price ? |
| 27 | Fifteen minutes later McKillop was in the street waiting for a bus that would take him to Westminster where he could get a connection down to Kennington . |
| 28 | Perhaps he could get a doctor 's certificate , to say it would do him a damage . |
| 29 | I spotted unexpected wigs and learned — with surrealistic horror — that you could get a wig on the National Health . |
| 30 | Before Bull O'Malley could get a chance to reply , Father Devlin raised a conciliatory hand and waved it like a flag of truce . |