Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [not/n't] get [det] " in BNC.

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1 I ca n't get that picture out of my mind .
2 You pour it out Arthur , I ca n't get that cork off very easily .
3 for granddad , well I ca n't get that from the kids and that 's it , that was to my dad so I got him that one in the end
4 I do n't like it when they 're sitting on the floor in front of the counter with their legs like that and they 're sitting there and you 're looking at the video and you think , well , I ca n't get that because that was made in nineteen-eighty-six and they might think I 'm a bit weedy , so I better get something that was made recently .
5 I ai n't got a hankie or nothing so I try and lick it off with my tongue , but I ca n't get all of it .
6 There was an amusing moment when Schofield talked enthusiastically to the press after the Melbourne win and a British journalist pleaded : ‘ Slow down Garry , I ca n't get all this down ! ’
7 Now I find that I ca n't get all the data held in those hundreds of files .
8 Yeah well that 's got ta be cleaned as well sometime , for him nine o'clock that morning , well I ca n't get all that done , by myself !
9 I heard my voice say , ‘ I ca n't get this door open . ’
10 I ca n't get this one .
11 They want to go up to the aviary but I I ca n't get I ca n't get this buggy up there up that hill .
12 I ca n't get this again .
13 I ca n't get this
14 No I ca n't get this bloody thing done .
15 I ca n't get this right .
16 I ca n't get any words out .
17 The problem is that , although it pulls like a train , I ca n't get any more than 35 mph out of it , comfortably , that is .
18 I ca n't get any vacuum pressure .
19 I ca n't get any sense out of him — he comes home from work and disappears straight away through the cubby hole under the stairs — to his ‘ Batcave ’ !
20 He picked up the lingo right away , but I ca n't get any kind of fix on it .
21 I ca n't get any relief from drawing or playing records or reading .
22 Besides which , if I ca n't get any I 'll have to think of something else .
23 I 've been trying to get some indoor fireworks and I ca n't get any , I thought it 'll be just some .
24 And I ca n't get any bigger .
25 Well I ca n't get any more off that apple !
26 She said , you know erm , I ca n't get any money out from the bank .
27 Bloody headwind and and all that bloody air about and I ca n't get any .
28 I ca n't get these back in now I do n't think .
29 And I ca n't get these papers tight on these , they 're stupid .
30 Until the backup generators come on line , I ca n't get enough ergs to run a full check on the main systems . ’
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