Example sentences of "could [adv] get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately I could only get a ticket for the liverpool end . |
| 2 | That 's been dropped too , because the GaAs semiconductor house CDC used could only get a yield of 2% good parts . |
| 3 | He knew the details of ident laws and rationing for every country in Europe , he had mastered Dutch and French , and he still could not get a pipe to burn for more than three minutes at a stretch . |
| 4 | One could not get a dispensation from the mines inspectorate to increase the manpower . |
| 5 | She could not get a grant or income support and had no option of going part time . |
| 6 | The problem was that I could not get a response from anybody in the Department . |
| 7 | Mind you , England should have been home and clear before that , but poor Barnes , the man who had won the Cup final at Twickenham with a last-minute magical goal kick , could not get a goal from eight attempts in the first half . |
| 8 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 9 | For a few weeks all went well , until three New Bradwell ex POWs , Ron Preston , Jack Henshaw and George Wood could not get a hire car due to petrol being rationed . |
| 10 | But it was such perfect weather that if they could not get a fox away , even the most incompetent hunt in England could n't fail to make something of it . |
| 11 | This point is usually included in the police officer 's statement of evidence , e.g. ‘ The driver could not get a view to the front without first looking through the windscreen ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I could not get a flight to Croydon . |
| 13 | ‘ I could not get a pardon for Simon , you know that , Brother , but I showed him one last mercy . ’ |
| 14 | On the twelfth floor of the hotel , from which they could just get a view of the distant river , they were delighted with their prosperous-looking aunt . |
| 15 | If I could just get a role doing some of the falls in the action replays , say , I could save him from horrible injury , or at least the odd booking . |
| 16 | They make the rule book mentality into an art form and could easily get a PhD in bureaucracy . |
| 17 | We did not really think they could possibly get a boat in . ’ |
| 18 | I could , I could quickly get a Sunderland scarf , believe me , Ann . |
| 19 | I would suggest to you that given that and also the wording in the justification under the old Policy E three , that in fact you could hardly get a tissue paper between this policy that is now before you and the previous policy . |
| 20 | Thorfinn could hardly get a hearing , at first , for the shouting . |
| 21 | She could still get a phone call telling her sh telling her no , that 's the other thing . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sure you could still get a bit of teaching work , you know . |
| 23 | At the University of Loughborough there were several people who went on record as saying that you could always get a laugh out of Henry . |
| 24 | Oh you you you paid but you could always get a place there I could remember a lot of parking time when I was n't driving . |
| 25 | WOLVES fancy Blackpool forward David Eyres and they could also get a call from Chelsea , who may fancy Mike Stowell to end their search for a goalkeeper . |
| 26 | Actually , he could probably get a game . |
| 27 | Morrison , 24 , won a unanimous verdict over a man 20 years older than him , and could now get a crack at Lewis ' WBC crown . |
| 28 | But I could n't get a phone number for that one . |
| 29 | and his wife , it was her second marriage , her first one had been to the doctor and he had actually examined paedophilia backed off , basically said well she did n't , she could n't get a conviction but it was quite clear that he had the motive and he 'd had the opportunity because Connie died from the fire which Harvey Jones had set cos he found out |
| 30 | I just could n't get a word out then , I was just a quivering , stuttering heap , and I tried to say , ‘ I 've g-g-g-g-got a sp-sp-sp-speech impediment . ’ |