Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] could get " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the sellers were not normally asking the maximum wage which the traffic would bear and offering in return the minimum quantity of labour they could get away with . |
| 2 | The number of sales the trader could make was limited to the number of cars he could get . |
| 3 | The pictures however did n't seem to be of artistes of any kind ; they were just of anonymous , handsome young men , the sort of photographs that Boy had seen in barber 's windows showing the kinds of haircut you could get . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But there were a lot of things you could get |
| 6 | I bet there are loads of people I could get on with . |
| 7 | And we were living in very a abnormal times , and women were snatching at a little bit of happiness they could get , you know this is what it was . |
| 8 | In other words , I mean that was a basic kind of training you could get as a mechanical engineer . |
| 9 | we used to have , I used to make big pan of broth you could get gorgeous bacon bones with plenty bacon on in the Co-op in those days , it were wi it was when they , they did all the boning in the shops and you could go , get good meaty bones and I used |
| 10 | For one thing , he found it hard to accept that anyone who lacked the advantage of being American could pose much of a threat , and for another , he needed every scrap of material he could get from any quarter , even the newspapers , to sustain the nonstop barrage of reports he was firing into headquarters . |
| 11 | Accordingly , depending upon whether a bank holder of a bill of lading sued in the United States or in England he could get $500 instead of £100 for loss of the same package or unit of freight . |
| 12 | By presenting the choices starkly on public spending and increases in taxation he could get the answers he wants . |
| 13 | This was a man who needed all the help and support from others he could get . |
| 14 | Luckily I 'd had some speed earlier : when I was on blues I could get through anything . |
| 15 | There were nine races left , but the odds on Hunt you could get in the betting shops were astronomical . |
| 16 | I wish to hell we could get the forensic pathology service sorted out before I go . |
| 17 | Beasant 's goalkeeping spared Chelsea another drubbing at Crystal Palace on Boxing Day and so long as their strikers remain on target they could get a decent result today . |
| 18 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |