Example sentences of "[modal v] not get [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he volunteered to give a lift to anyone who could n't get to the annual general meeting in March . |
| 2 | I could n't get to the first part again and yeah that 's right |
| 3 | Before , I could n't get down the High Street for bricks and houses , but they 're not there now . |
| 4 | It all came to a head the day a fire engine could n't get down the High Street for parked cars . |
| 5 | We shift them down to the so they could n't get onto the cultivated land . |
| 6 | Parts One and Two but could n't get past the first page . |
| 7 | Which footballer was sold for £4½ million but could n't get into the first team for 16 months ? |
| 8 | Security was so tight Stan and Ollie could n't get into the Tory conference . |
| 9 | She was going to find out shortly that she could n't get on the wrong side of Harry without paying for it . |
| 10 | You should have seen the state he was getting in when he cos he could n't get round the bloody corner . |
| 11 | Well , Dominic would have played more but he could n't get in the blooming team ! |
| 12 | I bet he could n't get in the smaller ball than Fred can get you |
| 13 | They were saying what a stupid series it was , how ridiculous the character was , and it would n't get beyond the first episode . |
| 14 | yes they ca n't get through the front door |
| 15 | Slaven ca n't get into the 15-man squad at Oldham and manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ I 'm working to get him fixed up . |
| 16 | Redgrave and Pinsent , who on Saturday thrilled the nation with a gold medal triumph in the coxless pairs , now ca n't get into the official athletes ' village . |
| 17 | The result is as many blank pages as Ventura can build into the current chapter and you ca n't get at the tagged block of text to de-select it ! |
| 18 | The ca n't get onto the southbound carriageway … so they have to go north to Peartree before turning round and coming back . |
| 19 | I mean , for me personally I think there 's actually a decision that if I ca n't get over the full unbiased impression that I want to make about the whole story , I 've got to make a decision whether I 'm going to talk to you at all . |
| 20 | But we 've still got plenty to work on and we wo n't get into the real tour rhythm until next Saturday . ’ |
| 21 | After all she has been compared to Monroe , a parallel she does n't argue with although she insists she wo n't get into the same mess as the icon who screwed up her life with an overdose of men , booze and drugs . |
| 22 | How do I know that in choosing Direct Line I wo n't get into the same trouble ? ’ |
| 23 | " So I wo n't get to the fair , " said Emily — and then , the second she had said it , she covered her mouth with her hand , afraid that her thoughtlessness might upset John . |
| 24 | If the patient has a defective visual word-recognition system which fails to identify frays , then the word can not get to the semantic system via the visual word-recognition system , so this , the usual route for reading comprehension , will fail . |
| 25 | I am saying this in a letter because I am sorry to say I can not get to the next liaison meeting . |