Example sentences of "they could get [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many disabled people could not travel to the polling station , and few knew beforehand whether it was accessible , or even whether they could get into the booths . |
| 2 | If they harmed her there was no way they could get off the train other than jumping and , with it travelling at over ninety-five miles an hour , that did n't seem a very good idea . |
| 3 | He did suggest that Sir Archibald send out a couple of scouts to as close as they could get to the enemy camp without being noticed , to send back word of any development there . |
| 4 | FOR THEIR first UK appearance in 20 years , Germanic rockers Faust chose London 's notorious Marquee club as the venue to strut their stuff , surely the nearest equivalent they could get to the bowels of Hell ! |
| 5 | They got stuck in a traffic jam , however , and were caught with tools and stolen Federal Express property before they could get to the works of art . |
| 6 | Knowing that half of Scotland had left their cars sitting in the middle of roads to make sure that they could get to the gig is not so much my horror story as the police 's , she chuckled . |
| 7 | A lot of Winnipeg 's race crowd , Zak said , had asked how they could get on the train . |
| 8 | They tied the car so they could get in the vice . |