Example sentences of "could not get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One could not get a dispensation from the mines inspectorate to increase the manpower . |
| 3 | She could not get a grant or income support and had no option of going part time . |
| 4 | The problem was that I could not get a response from anybody in the Department . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I could not get a flight to Croydon . |
| 11 | ‘ I could not get a pardon for Simon , you know that , Brother , but I showed him one last mercy . ’ |