Example sentences of "could [adv] get the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Sid Cornish , who was a serious atheist , could not get the sight of the two kneeling men out of his mind . |
| 2 | His sheep were suffering from foot-rot , and however many ditches he dug , he could not get the water off his fields . |
| 3 | The only complaint from Sam Torrance after his par 72 for 146 was that he could not get the ball into the hole . |
| 4 | But it really started on Friday in the Stranmillis Theatre with the Ulster Youth Dance , who could not get the theatre at any other time for its Rite of Spring . |
| 5 | For many groups , public-pressure group activity was no sign of their power , but it was a testament to the frustrated powerlessness of those who could not get the ear of government , still less their positive action — no matter what they did or did not do . |
| 6 | She could not get the image of a yellow piqué dress crumpled on a white bed out of her mind . |
| 7 | Pushing the wheelbarrow should have been child 's play , but I still could not get the hang of it . |
| 8 | ‘ They had so much possession and we just could n't get the ball off them . ’ |
| 9 | erm we excluded all the superficial ones that had solid because it was insufficient er one patient we could n't get the stain to work . |
| 10 | IBM Corp held detailed salary discussions with two other people , one of them Lawrence Bossidy of AlliedSignal Inc before it hired Louis Gerstner as chairman and chief executive , the Wall Street Journal reckons : it says it could n't get the name of the other candidate . |
| 11 | I could n't get the money for the film I wanted to make . |
| 12 | And he only fourteen years old , then , and already a wonder on the fiddle , but he could n't get the feel of her eyelids off his hands . |
| 13 | Hitting me with her little fists , but I could n't get the smile off my face . |
| 14 | So I could n't get the swing of it then do you see , for about two or three years . |
| 15 | What was your thought of Friar Lawrence could n't get the letter to Romeo ? |
| 16 | We could n't get the centenary of the Origin of Species into our programme — that was nineteen fifty nine and we had n't started then — but I did persuade tonight 's speaker to deliver one of our early centenary lectures on the subject of Darwin 's subsequent book , that is the book on the Descent of Man , which appeared in eighteen seventy one , and I am sure that those of you who were there on that occasion in December eighteen seventy one will remember it as a stimulating and |
| 17 | I was getting more fish than him but could n't get the quality despite trying every bait in the book . |
| 18 | I could n't get the game on tv or radio , but was glued to BBC world service for any news on the game . |
| 19 | When we were buying the house , he said he could n't get the mortgage on his salary . |
| 20 | No , I could n't get the television on earlier so I 'm thinking he |
| 21 | but could n't get the hang of it . |
| 22 | While he could equally get the information from other sources , he finds that ‘ going there every week , you hear about what 's going on , which is a great help . ’ |
| 23 | I could never get the hang of them things at all . ’ |