Example sentences of "he could get a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal .
2 He could get a couple of hamburgers and a glass of beer at the airport , then catch the evening flight to Brussels .
3 And he was a wounded pensioner er and he , he applied for a grant which you , which er a wounded soldier in the First World War could get if you had a pension he could get a grant of that pension to learn a trade .
4 It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I do n't think he could get a buyer actually , it 's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he 's not keen on selling it at that price .
5 Stephen opened his mouth to express his thanks but before he could get a word out , Jonadab spoke again .
6 He wondered how he could get a word , alone , to warn her .
7 Any time he could get a majority of his colleagues in the House to repeal it I would be delighted .
8 Philip jumped up to see if he could get a look in through the window .
9 She broke away before he could get a stranglehold and made her way to the podium , hitching up her dress and putting on her very best smile for the tridvid sages .
10 When he , but then he said , like he said is there anywhere else where he could get a stage from and I explained to him that people come and hire the stage off us like Saint Michael-le-Belfry church , who are paying in cash .
11 Perhaps he could get a doctor 's certificate , to say it would do him a damage .
12 Fifteen minutes later McKillop was in the street waiting for a bus that would take him to Westminster where he could get a connection down to Kennington .
13 If he could get a job , it might be easier to initiate some change .
14 ( Another of Sharky 's new routes in Cheedale is the quaintly named Thrash Your Woodie — maybe he could get a job writing Finbar Saunders scripts ! )
15 And er he , of course with him being a blacksmith , he could get a job anywhere in America , he says he could leave a town tonight and land in another town , he says and he could be sure of getting a job with him being a blacksmith .
16 It 's just polisher he could get a job , see that .
17 He could get a job and earn some money to buy some clothes — but he knew this was just a dream .
18 He did n't want a job that 's what he had said he wanted to have time out he did n't want a job he could get a job when he wanted to , he ca n't now turn round and blame it on
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