Example sentences of "could [adv] get a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately I could only get a ticket for the liverpool end . |
| 2 | That 's been dropped too , because the GaAs semiconductor house CDC used could only get a yield of 2% good parts . |
| 3 | One could not get a dispensation from the mines inspectorate to increase the manpower . |
| 4 | The problem was that I could not get a response from anybody in the Department . |
| 5 | Mind you , England should have been home and clear before that , but poor Barnes , the man who had won the Cup final at Twickenham with a last-minute magical goal kick , could not get a goal from eight attempts in the first half . |
| 6 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 7 | This point is usually included in the police officer 's statement of evidence , e.g. ‘ The driver could not get a view to the front without first looking through the windscreen ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I could not get a flight to Croydon . |
| 9 | ‘ I could not get a pardon for Simon , you know that , Brother , but I showed him one last mercy . ’ |
| 10 | On the twelfth floor of the hotel , from which they could just get a view of the distant river , they were delighted with their prosperous-looking aunt . |
| 11 | They make the rule book mentality into an art form and could easily get a PhD in bureaucracy . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sure you could still get a bit of teaching work , you know . |
| 13 | WOLVES fancy Blackpool forward David Eyres and they could also get a call from Chelsea , who may fancy Mike Stowell to end their search for a goalkeeper . |
| 14 | Morrison , 24 , won a unanimous verdict over a man 20 years older than him , and could now get a crack at Lewis ' WBC crown . |
| 15 | Half an hour later : Z : " I could n't get a word in edgeways " , muttered as he managed finally to get away . |
| 16 | The problem was that clubs would let you play only if you had a club handicap , but you could n't get a handicap without playing . |
| 17 | On the first two touches , it shifted , and she could n't get a grip on it , but on the third attempt , she clasped it between her toes . |
| 18 | After doing three partial water changes with mature tap water ( pH 7.2 ) I still could n't get a reading of over 6 in the Discus tank . |
| 19 | She took the Geiger-Muller counter from the holdall but could n't get a reading from around the seal of the door . |
| 20 | Now are aware that are losing the agency stuff therefore services should improve generally but this is mostly and the business travel , you know duty travel , cruise positioning that sort of thing , to the extent that erm and two of the ops people paid a visit to last week for a liaison meeting and one thing that I thought was absolutely remarkable that came out was in respect of complaining that they could never get through to anybody in erm in , they could n't get a reply from the extensions and they could n't send messages or anything . |
| 21 | Sunday night was usually jam session night at the Mimosa Club for assorted trad jazzmen who were n't in regular bands or who could n't get a gig in one of the big suburban pubs . |
| 22 | So you ca n't have a full mortgage but they could n't get a mortgage on it because it had a flat roof . |
| 23 | You could n't get a job as a Nippy if you had anything more than an eighteen-inch waist . ’ |
| 24 | She could n't get a job as a washer up could she ? |
| 25 | Could n't get a job in the City scooping dog poop nowadays . ’ |
| 26 | And er then Mr said it was safe for his wife to return and children , that they , trouble was they could n't get a seat for me on the plane . |
| 27 | and , and you know you could n't get a lot of money , although of course nationally , the rates of pay were governed nationally , they were going up and up and up and there was no way that we could keep pace , we could n't keep on increasing the tuppeny fare . |
| 28 | You could n't get a cup of tea or a cup of coffee anywhere . |
| 29 | One night I stopped on a bit at the dance in Cotherstone and had to walk home because I could n't get a lift from anyone . |
| 30 | Famlio or whoever could fling out all the comm-calls they wanted , along the Netlines , but they could n't get a fix on our position until or unless we responded . |