Example sentences of "could get [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She deliberately kept us in the dark because she wanted to prove that she could get over this monster barrier of performing live on her own . |
| 2 | ‘ T' Brownies laid yum acrost t' river one night long ago so'as an old farmwife who 'd been kind to yum could get over to her daughter 's house on t' other side without goin' miles a-down t' river t' bridge . ’ |
| 3 | Can you think of a way the retailer could get over this ? |
| 4 | She phoned to say that , having only just returned from Chester , it would be around nine before she could get over with it , and would that be all right ? |
| 5 | It had been bought by a northern brewery who could n't believe that they could get over a pound a pint for their best bitter despite what they 'd heard about Londoners . |
| 6 | There would be a lot of damage and a few people would get hurt , but the lads would be away by the time the police could get round to the place . |
| 7 | London Transport could get round this problem by increasing the power of its transmissions and blotting out foreign broadcasts . |
| 8 | But Palm Beach lawyer Peggy Lynn said : ‘ They could get round that if the birth mother picks a specific couple to adopt the baby , the child has special needs or the mother is related . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose we could get round there inside the walls , ’ said Gurder . |
| 10 | ‘ Prior to this I was uneasy , and my constituents were uneasy , that some smart lawyer in the future could get round these rights for BR dependants , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The idea that one could go right round the universe and end up where one started makes good science fiction , but it does n't have much practical significance , because it can be shown that the universe would recollapse to zero size before one could get round . |
| 12 | He had also engaged to do the same thing for Chief Superintendent John Coffin and one or two other enemies if he could get round to them , but he had let Place know that he had a prior claim . |
| 13 | The spring of 1922 was the crucial period , when the unmetalled roads began to break up into mud and the rivers had not yet melted By the time grain had arrived from the Black Sea to an area north of Samara , only one in ten of the available sledges could get through to rural areas , so that instead or 48,750 pudy of corn , a mere 1,500 were delivered . |
| 14 | Churchill had been egging Auchinleck on to attack , and so relieve the pressure on the beleaguered island of Malta which was threatened with starvation unless convoys could get through . |
| 15 | Anyway , Reverend William Lee , his son and his brother , went over to France to see if Henry , King Henry of France could help him er but before he could get through to the court there King Henry died and then William Lee died without seeing his machine come to any sort of commercial fruition . |
| 16 | Private investors would only be in an equally good position as institutions if they owned Topic screens and could get through on the phone to their broker as quickly as the big fund manager . |
| 17 | The novel is brief — 100 pages or so — and a remarkably effective narrative which you could get through in one sitting . |
| 18 | She could n't understand the way his mind worked any more than she could get through to him . |
| 19 | The county 's director of environment David Newbegin said there would also be some road closures , but gaps would be left so cyclists could get through . |
| 20 | For a period , he worked in the Manchester factory from 3am until 5pm , going to bed at 7pm so he could get up in time for the next day 's duty . |
| 21 | She was able to move safely from room to room in her house , and she could get up during the night to use her commode when necessary . |
| 22 | She was an excellent choice to supervise the Mites , knowing just what tricks they could get up to . |
| 23 | He could get up to all sorts of tricks and I was told that when another one of the lads at the same farm applied for a job as a coachman , Grandad gave him a reference . |
| 24 | She could get up , put on her dressing gown , go downstairs and make tea , correct her proofs , read , listen to the BBC World Service . |
| 25 | If he could get up to Dunbar Castle , he could borrow a good horse there and be in Edinburgh five hours later . |
| 26 | We wandered back home and when we entered the yard we were called in to go to bed early so we could get up to help in the morning . |
| 27 | ‘ I think I could get up there , ’ he said . |
| 28 | The first few strenuous bridging moves sowed the seeds of doubt — not over the route 's identity so much as whether he could get up it . |
| 29 | The mother was prompted when to let go and once Mary made a two-second break in her crying after several minutes of screaming she was told she could get up . |
| 30 | The only way we could get up to the nest was to borrow a ladder from a neighbouring farmer and climb up . |