Example sentences of "can [adv] get [adv] " in BNC.

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1 An elderly gent wandering the streets talking to himself about his secret wedding to his ward tomorrow ( because the plot requires him to be overheard so she 'll find out ) is the sort of thing you can only get away with in opera .
2 Messrs Lyall and McGiven will soon realise that you can only get away with boring , negative football whilst is bring results — ask John Duncan .
3 Messrs Lyall and McGiven will soon realise that you can only get away with boring , negative football whilst it bring results — ask John Duncan .
4 From modesty to exuberance and one can scarcely get more exuberant than a water staircase ( Fig. 11 ) .
5 ‘ I can easily get home .
6 Right , we can just get there .
7 The thing is , you can just get too paranoid , ca n't you ?
8 from scratch I do n't know whether I 'm allowed to do that , I think I can possibly get away with this .
9 And if the doctor wants the police the performance will be over by then and the house cleared before they can possibly get here . ’
10 It 's an alternative path to safety so that , when the obvious path is blocked , you can still get away .
11 Erm if your diagram 's pretty reasonable and you measure the wrong thing , you can still get quite a lot of the marks .
12 The creed had such a powerful hold upon the party that even Quintin Hogg , who later chose the life-peerage title Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone — you can hardly get more urban than that — was opining in 1947 that ‘ the Conservative believes that farming is more than a business ; it is a way of life , essential to the community in war and peace . ’
13 During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe .
14 ‘ Afternoon duty is quite pleasant : I can usually get quite a lot of reading done in the library because there 's little activity on the gallery after three o'clock .
15 Whilst they can probably get away with spot colour separations , and indeed many of them produce excellent spot separated material , the world now seems to expect that process colour separation will follow just as easily .
16 He has stashed up reserves of arms , and can probably get more .
17 You can , you can write it out again afterwards to make sense of it and you can both get together and write it out and sort of do pretty tables .
18 Then we can both get home . ’
19 And people can also get pretty hot under the collar on Central Weekend .
20 He can also get really mad , but then he can be wonderful afterwards . "
21 You can also get more detailed information from the Continence Advisory Service at the Disabled Living Foundation ( see page 134 for address ) .
22 You can also get there by typing , as key words , Skymaster , Notam , Notams , AIS , Nats , or Met .
23 With the whole fleet converging on the first mark it can often get rather chaotic , as everyone is eager to blast off on to the reach .
24 He can now get both in the same action , because the same court can both give damages and also grant an injunction .
25 Callers can now get straight through to the ward simply by adding the prefix ‘ 83 ’ to the extension number .
26 You can even get away with having missile troops in a line one deep with no second rank .
27 Continue for as long as you can without getting uncomfortably out of breath .
28 Then jog properly for as long as you can without getting uncomfortably out of breath .
29 Then jog properly for as long as you can without getting uncomfortably out of breath .
30 Then jog properly for as long as you can without getting uncomfortably out of breath .
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