Example sentences of "[pron] could get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could get all sorts of reasonable tones , but live or recorded I was n't hearing the sound of an AC30 ; all I could hear was the Power Tool 's solid state amp and the massive amount of EQ I was adding and taking away . |
| 2 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |
| 3 | I could get fresh fish from the quay if I hurried . |
| 4 | I decided to abandon my earlier plan of just walking around until dawn and instead to try and find somewhere where I could get some sleep . |
| 5 | ‘ I merely shut you up so I could get some sleep ! ’ |
| 6 | If only I could get some relief from this headache … ’ |
| 7 | De Villiers grinned disarmingly. ‘ 'T WOULD not be so bad if I could get some work done so I could visit her now and then , but there 's little chance of that with the Bishop running to the Queen every five minutes . ’ |
| 8 | So I was looking at the slide sitting on the strings , and looking at the major third on the fretboard , and then I said , ‘ If only I could get this note here . ’ |
| 9 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 10 | The closest I could get last night was a flight to Chicago . ’ |
| 11 | Families were breaking down when I was a probation officer in King 's Cross , but then I could get these kids rent money for private accommodation up front . |
| 12 | And I tears of course , you know , and er the poor old man he was a very small man , Mr , and er he lifted me up and told me never to mind , i could get another shilling . |
| 13 | He went on : ‘ I could get more money if I gave up performing for master classes but I do n't continue working for the money . |
| 14 | Geez I wish I could get more satisfaction out of this place . |
| 15 | At which Lupescu collapses in fits of hysterical laughter , and crawls over to Ceauşescu and embraces his knees and kisses his feet , saying , ‘ Thank you , Comrade , for a joke like that , I could get ten dollars ! ’ |
| 16 | But then if she could get set nights . |
| 17 | She could get other boarders , he would never , with his reputation , be taken in by any other landlady in Florence no matter what was paid . |
| 18 | She could not but be gratified and relieved at the possibility of a small sum to see her through the likely lean period before she could get another post . |
| 19 | She could get some words from her dad . |
| 20 | They swept away before she could get any reply , and she was n't too sure of safety , either — Alain looked murderous . |
| 21 | Dustin took one sip and told Claude that he was the only man he knew who could get fresh oranges out of a can . |
| 22 | That an' the chance ter 'elp me build up the business so yer could get some money be'ind yer . |
| 23 | Do n't you realize you could get 99 years in a Federal pen for shooting your mouth off like that ? ’ |
| 24 | He needs a holiday — you both do — and I saw this as a way to ensure that you could get regular time off in the future . ’ |
| 25 | Mam got 'em from the nuns — you could get all sorts of things from the convent in them days . |
| 26 | But you could get that tanker gradually creeping along and moving . |
| 27 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 28 | No , but again in terms of creative writing and feature writing , that 's maybe you could get two people to do a duo , one from the journalist side and one from more general side |
| 29 | Presumably , you could get new ones ? |
| 30 | Yeah , it takes erm you can get half a dozen crates in you could get eleven gallon if you wanted . |