Example sentences of "could [adv] get [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 2 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 3 | But if they needed it , they knew they could always get work with him . |
| 4 | Because I could n't er i mean Chris was one minute he was on the phone , the next minute you could n't get hold of him . |
| 5 | I could n't get hold of him yesterday ! |
| 6 | He went all over the place looking , but he could n't get hold of it I mean it was obviously it was something that he made himself but it was beautiful ! |
| 7 | Great run again by Mickey , did ever so well , came inside , knocked a good ball into , unfortunately he just could n't get hold of it and the goalkeeper came out and collected it . |
| 8 | One of the things that was popular was that the smaller things like rabbit clubs when people could then get food for them officially if they did that . |
| 9 | We 've tried to frame our motion as carefully as we could t so we could actually get support from everybody . |