Example sentences of "could [not/n't] get [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , any argument directed against the applicability of the idea of identity to meanings is really self-stultifying , for such an argument would imply , among other things , that no topic could be significantly referred to as " the same " on two separate occasions , with the inevitable consequence that the argument itself could not get off the ground . |
| 2 | In 1871 he took the yacht , Sampson , to Svalbard , to the Seven Islands , reaching latitude 81° 30' N. In 1872 he could not get beyond the north-west capes of Spitsbergen . |
| 3 | I could not get over the kindness of it , his attention . |
| 4 | He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed . |
| 5 | I could not get over the fact that people were giving me the responsibility of telling them how to get me up , and that I could choose what time I went to bed ! |
| 6 | Gibbs did so and Harvey went out to drive , but with his injured leg could not get to the pitch and holed out to Sobers . |
| 7 | I need crutches to get around the house and could not get to the concert , ’ she said . |
| 8 | On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again . |
| 9 | Marathon runners finishing after 2 hours 45 minutes found that they could not get into the stadium after a 26 mile 385 yard slog in 90F temperatures . |
| 10 | When he lectured at Harvard in this year , policemen had to control the crowds who came out to see him , and loudspeakers were set up for those who could not get into the auditorium . |
| 11 | As I understand it , some hon. Members could not get into the House before the Division was completed . |
| 12 | Clinical director Paul Lawler , who heads the intensive care unit at South Cleveland Hospital , Middlesbrough , said desperately ill patients were being turned away because they could not get into the unit . |
| 13 | Could not get into the army . |
| 14 | He has used a fast government car to shake off at least one photographer , but there is a more prosaic explanation for Mr Lamont 's perambulations around Blackpool — his civil servants could not get through the security around the Imperial . |
| 15 | Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken . |
| 16 | Three cardiac arrest patients had to be flown to hospital by the North Wales police helicopter because ambulances could not get through the floods . |
| 17 | ‘ It was so dark I could hardly see where to put my cross on the voting slip — and then I could n't get to the ballot box which was situated in a poky little office . |
| 18 | They could n't get to the top ; there were too many cars . |
| 19 | He still could n't get to the bottom of it . |
| 20 | I could n't get to the first part again and yeah that 's right |
| 21 | And he volunteered to give a lift to anyone who could n't get to the annual general meeting in March . |
| 22 | Before , I could n't get down the High Street for bricks and houses , but they 're not there now . |
| 23 | It all came to a head the day a fire engine could n't get down the High Street for parked cars . |
| 24 | We shift them down to the so they could n't get onto the cultivated land . |
| 25 | Whatever he might do , he could n't get past the postmistress at Cong , who acts as operator , and runs the whole village . |
| 26 | Parts One and Two but could n't get past the first page . |
| 27 | But the problem was n't even helped there because you see he could n't get up the stairs easily , because the wardrobe was in the way . |
| 28 | so they could n't get along the roads and I think the cof the probably the funeral was put off as long as they could put it off . |
| 29 | ‘ They could n't get through the undergrowth before . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ At the end of the day , my husband is my best friend , but I could n't get through the day without talking to another woman — men do n't seem to need to air their hopes and fears like we do . |