Example sentences of "could n't get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitting me with her little fists , but I could n't get the smile off my face . |
| 2 | ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , all I know is , I could n't get back to sleep , ’ said Mrs Feather wearily . |
| 4 | ‘ Could n't get ‘ em now , ’ says the farmer 's wife scornfully . |
| 5 | But as he could n't play it that well , he just could n't get his ideas across . |
| 6 | And after that , of course , we could n't get to sleep . |
| 7 | I was getting more fish than him but could n't get the quality despite trying every bait in the book . |
| 8 | We was laughing so much we could n't get no sound out . |
| 9 | ‘ We asked for permission during the day and could n't get it , ’ Vincent protested . |
| 10 | He was a nice person and I think he was genuinely interested in how David was getting on , although he could n't get him any bookings . |
| 11 | The American audiences were kind of small at first and it was a major promotional coup to have survived it all because a lot of dates were pulled at the last minute — promoters could n't get any interest . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Everyone else had gone to Japan and I was still in New York trying desperately to get a visa for Russia but I could n't get one , so I convince Tony deFries that if I went to Japan and went to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo , they 'd be so confused by an American applying for a visa in Tokyo 's Embassy that i could fake it and get one , and he said I was welcome to try . |
| 14 | The partner there was terribly embarrassed , rang me up and apologized for hours afterwards , could n't get him off the phone . |
| 15 | As he put it , ‘ I have to deal with guys on those committees who could n't get a security clearance for a job in a post office ’ . |
| 16 | I would n't have minded but I could n't get it in the hole after that . |
| 17 | I could n't get CNN in the glorious Econo Lodge , but I wondered what had become of Arnett and Shaw and Holliman . |
| 18 | Those who could n't get in pushed the Citroën , and three managed to get onto the moped . |
| 19 | The local transport authority simply could n't get spare parts from the British to keep the buses on the roads . |
| 20 | But he could n't get the thought out of his head that in London , that very day , Muldoon and Klepner had given HIS Ten Year Plan to Cocello . |
| 21 | He tried to tackle Gina about it , hinting that a young man like him needed sex from someone if he could n't get it at home . |
| 22 | I could n't get him away from his bench . |
| 23 | They could n't get her out . |
| 24 | She could n't get enough . |
| 25 | She had a crop of them now that she could n't get rid of , even though she was using that acne treatment that worked wonders for the girl on the telly advert . |
| 26 | I could n't get to sleep . |
| 27 | I fell down , knocked me walking-frame over and I could n't get meself up again . |
| 28 | Perhaps it 's that bloke who locked the gates in Gibraltar so they could n't get into Spain . |
| 29 | I could n't get Nutty to wear that flowered frock you gave him , he 's dead ignorant and I wish you 'd send the lads to sort him out again . |
| 30 | Yet now we 're told indie bands should n't be allowed to make dance records ( because they do n't understand it ) , that at the start these bands wee quite rightly isolated by house ( ’ Here was the nation 's party in full swing and they could n't get in ’ ) . |