Example sentences of "could [not/n't] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford led by nearly a length at Barnes Bridge , though they could not get away . |
| 2 | Some made hazardous , roundabout trips to join the Pretender via the Orkney Islands and Norway , but the government 's vengeance on those who could not get away was relatively restrained . |
| 3 | I meant to leave work early on the day of the meeting but , as so often happens , I could not get away until late so , instead of the planned leisurely drive , I was home with barely enough time to squeeze my wife into the car before arriving hot and bothered at the meeting . |
| 4 | But there was that unmistakable and disquieting reaction to the knocking on the door , and then the pointless deception which followed ; pointless , because he must have known he could not get away with it . |
| 5 | I could not get away at once because of all the clearing up there was to do , but at last the files on that unhappy case could be put away , and I was planning a fortnight 's cruise in my ancient Yorkshire coble Joanna , now moored on the Crouch . |
| 6 | In fact , it was sometimes so crowded that customers could not get near ! |
| 7 | Blocked roads meant that many motorists could not get home for several hours . |
| 8 | For all Miss Macdonald 's painstaking work , I could not get really interested in these itineraries . |
| 9 | On the one hand , his invasiveness of Johnson triggers an immediate cringe : on the other , were not Boswell so crass so frequently , his readers could not get so close to Johnson . |
| 10 | Coun Donald Fraser , a district and town councillor for Newton Aycliffe , said disabled people could not get specially adapted buses for day trips or holidays . |
| 11 | He said there was a comfortable assumption that the present situation could not get much worse , but this , unfortunately , could be mistaken . |
| 12 | Besides , the banqueting hall was small and the Collector could not get far . |
| 13 | ‘ The DUKW had tried to reach the vessel but could not get anywhere because of the nature of the craft . |
| 14 | But whoever it was could not get there in time . |
| 15 | The dilemma arose because the doctor coming from outside the area could not get there until 6.30 , and the crematorium mortuary closed at 4.30 and did n't reopen until the following Tuesday . |
| 16 | A Durham City vehicle was despatched but could not get there within the 19-minute national guideline time for ambulance call-outs . |
| 17 | They could not get very close under the walls because of the moat . |
| 18 | I am not gon na move over and I am going at my own pace , so I slowed down to about twenty miles an hour and it 's a road about four miles long and er he just could n't get past , you know ? |
| 19 | Oh thes er there was oncoming traffic , just could n't get past and I thought , fuck it ! |
| 20 | I am doing work here I could n't get elsewhere . |
| 21 | The Ludicrous lads may lambast Carter for ‘ boldly going where we 've already been ’ on their new album , but another track , ‘ Bloody Proud ’ , bristles with blatant Fall references , including a riff suspiciously akin to ‘ Could n't Get Ahead ’ . |
| 22 | Eventually she found them but could n't get near — the crowds were as dense further up and , push as she might , she could not make a parting for herself . |
| 23 | We could see them , but we could n't get near because there was no wind . |
| 24 | But there was no point in staying , as he could n't get near enough to' overhear their conversation . |
| 25 | She could n't get near . |
| 26 | You can also be more experimental in a story , write in the person of a ghost or a cat , do things you could n't get away with in a novel . |
| 27 | I meant to be at the station , but these people came to look over the house and I could n't get away . ’ |
| 28 | It was the same thing , his sister then , his father now , Georgia walking towards a beating in the school yard , Dad fighting for breath in his red chair , he wanted to save them , only he could do it , who else was there , but he had n't , he could n't , not really , but the wanting to , the failure to , you could n't get away from that . |
| 29 | Unlike the suburbs , where no one of note — except H. G. Wells — had lived , here you could n't get away from VIPs . |
| 30 | Suddenly you could n't get away from him and his blooming career . |