Example sentences of "they could get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could get hot water , but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up . |
| 2 | The daily volume of business reached ever new heights during the year over 920 million shares were traded , compared with 576 million in 1927 , as more and more people came to believe they could get rich quickly . |
| 3 | Eels are not thought to go down to the abyssal depths of the Atlantic where they could get such indications from the sea floor . |
| 4 | A few writers suggest that the Allies ( that is , the American OSS ) demanded his release so that they could get better reporting on the situation inside Vietnam than the aged Nguyen Hai Thanh , long absent from his own country , was able to provide . |
| 5 | It had been b I think a lot of the mills had been during the very , the years after the war , they had been very busy and a lot of them would build sheds and b take up looms that were , you , they probably had new looms on order but they were filled with a lot of scrap almost you know , anything they could get that work , work . |
| 6 | They could get lost . |
| 7 | I do n't believe they could get lost coming round here not with all the back fields on fire . |
| 8 | When they turn up at the office next day looking as if they 've missed out on their sleep , however , they could get more than teasing comments from their colleagues . |
| 9 | But if they were short , they would keep you on until they could get another man from a different station , so that you might only have two hours off . |
| 10 | You do n't want them emerging with the queasy feeling they could get whacked over the head on their way back to the car . |
| 11 | They took it out and sort of temporarily fixed it in so that they could get this out at the funeral and then he had to go back later and fix the window in . |
| 12 | And er , then I should go to the bobbin shop and ask them if they could get these done today and er , well we got this on , I said no but I , we want it if you could leave them on one side and erm I used to er I , I became , if I might say so and I 'm not boasting or bragging or anything , Michael , I 'm trying to tell you the situation as it was and er I was a very important man to and er they er got me er at one time to er figure out , they , they used to make what was called Woolworths locks . |
| 13 | But the generals could not afford to wait , and started work well before they could get any useful political guidance . |
| 14 | The only way they could get any semblance of acting was for Alex to speak a whole sentence , Michael to wait for the end , and then repeat it . |
| 15 | No that the Directors ' Wives were at all troubles by that sine now they could get those extra carpets for ceilings and special dog-teeth-mountable tin openers so their little doggy babies could open their own bloody tins of meat . |
| 16 | erm providing they could get some planning applications at the next er , committee cycle . |
| 17 | they could get ready for half past where with rather doing the |