Example sentences of "[vb past] they [modal v] [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discovery was made at 11.30am after staff arrived at the pub and found they could not get in . |
| 2 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 3 | ‘ Once they realised they could n't get any money they ran out of the shop and I think they got away in a car . ’ |
| 4 | No I think , I reckon that if you knew that the bloke was an easy pull , they would n't do it if they , if they knew they could n't get the girl cos otherwise it would be embarrassing for them , but if they knew that she was an easy pull they 'd do it for a joke . |
| 5 | But if they needed it , they knew they could always get work with him . |
| 6 | So convinced were the farmers that in July they delayed the trebbiatura , the threshing of the grain , hoping that they could do it under Allied administration ; they thought they would probably get 700 lire more for each sack . |
| 7 | Well they thought they could only get it through both legislatures and the courts for women . |
| 8 | Seeing that Hilary was n't taking it in , he added , ‘ Ryan and his partner thought they 'd easily get planning permission to build an estate on the land where your cottage stood . |
| 9 | So did Jim , although he said they 'd never get a word in if he came . |
| 10 | One of the high-heid yins wanted to have 20 gondolas , but another councillor said they should only get a male and a female and breed them . ’ |
| 11 | If the eagle did nothing and waited they would not get him . |