Example sentences of "could [adv] get to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights upstairs were still on ; if she could only get to a window she might be able to see what the men outside were doing . |
| 2 | They were often used for one or another of the Sheikh families , or for some accident victim who could not get to a specialist hospital in any other way . |
| 3 | On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again . |
| 4 | I need crutches to get around the house and could not get to the concert , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Gibbs did so and Harvey went out to drive , but with his injured leg could not get to the pitch and holed out to Sobers . |
| 6 | If she could just get to the phone box — The car cruised along at her speed . |
| 7 | Tried to ring you but could n't get to a phone . ’ |
| 8 | He still could n't get to the bottom of it . |
| 9 | They could n't get to the top ; there were too many cars . |
| 10 | ‘ It was so dark I could hardly see where to put my cross on the voting slip — and then I could n't get to the ballot box which was situated in a poky little office . |
| 11 | " The Archbishop the next day travelling to Rochester , told his story to some of his familiars and had scarce concluded it when he was siezed with a sudden shivering and sickness , that he could scarce get to the village of Halling , a place of the Bishop of Rochester , where he had no sooner arrived by going to bed that night he died of a fit of collick " . |