Example sentences of "could [adv] get [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it was what , what and if you go through all the papers you can see that , that Robert Maxwell really saw that self regulation erm legislation being that he could finally get control through an investment management company of his pension funds . |
| 2 | Although many boatmen 's wives acted as crew they were not recognised as such and could not get compensation for injury or sick pay . |
| 3 | A reserve of justice remained with the King , and so those who could not get relief in the King 's ordinary courts might , with some hope of success , petition the King and his Council for redress , if not as a matter of right at least as a favour . |
| 4 | When they could not get money from the machine they beat her with sticks . |
| 5 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 6 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 7 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 8 | I find it extra-ordinary that the police could not get access to these files simply because it was 5.30 and the office was shut . |
| 9 | On page 13 MARY BAILEY already has the cichlids — but if she could just get hold of a six foot tank … |
| 10 | If you could just get hold of say , the rainbow |
| 11 | But if they needed it , they knew they could always get work with him . |
| 12 | But he could always get work in good old BBC radio : that was his stamping ground . |
| 13 | Butchers are , on the whole , an ingenious breed , and they could probably get hold of some if you pressed them . |
| 14 | Dr. Marten shoes were most frequently seen on younger kids who could n't get hold of suedehead shoes . |
| 15 | The sort of secretary you could n't get hold of at Harris , Harris and Overdene . |
| 16 | I could n't get hold of Desmond Ingard , then I remembered Andrew Stavanger , whom , I must say , I trusted a good deal more . |
| 17 | But a wallet would contain all sorts of personal items which she could n't get hold of . |
| 18 | Because I could n't er i mean Chris was one minute he was on the phone , the next minute you could n't get hold of him . |
| 19 | Yes yes of co of course I was , but i could n't get hold of Dr and I thought well we 're gon na have to try it this way anyway at some stage . |
| 20 | could n't get hold of that actually . |
| 21 | He went all over the place looking , but he could n't get hold of it I mean it was obviously it was something that he made himself but it was beautiful ! |
| 22 | I could n't get hold of him yesterday ! |
| 23 | Great run again by Mickey , did ever so well , came inside , knocked a good ball into , unfortunately he just could n't get hold of it and the goalkeeper came out and collected it . |
| 24 | ‘ I went from feeling useless because I could n't get work to feeling defiant . |
| 25 | I ca n't remember the wages they paid us but we could n't get work in the shops anyway . |
| 26 | Nature was blooming and burgeoning , but poor Karen could n't get gravid for love or money . |
| 27 | One of the things that was popular was that the smaller things like rabbit clubs when people could then get food for them officially if they did that . |
| 28 | They 're they 're the sort of things that you could never get hold of , you know , that we always kept ourselves . |
| 29 | ‘ I was utterly miserable , ’ she recalls , ‘ I was in the position where I could actually get work to a standard that was good enough to attract support but there were n't any funds . ’ |
| 30 | We 've tried to frame our motion as carefully as we could t so we could actually get support from everybody . |