Example sentences of "could [adv] get [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it was what , what and if you go through all the papers you can see that , that Robert Maxwell really saw that self regulation erm legislation being that he could finally get control through an investment management company of his pension funds . |
| 2 | He could not get work and eventually went back to being an electrician in a colliery . |
| 3 | Although many boatmen 's wives acted as crew they were not recognised as such and could not get compensation for injury or sick pay . |
| 4 | A reserve of justice remained with the King , and so those who could not get relief in the King 's ordinary courts might , with some hope of success , petition the King and his Council for redress , if not as a matter of right at least as a favour . |
| 5 | When they could not get money from the machine they beat her with sticks . |
| 6 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 7 | The estate in Bradford where people told us they could not get credit because it had a reputation for housing defaulters ( see Appendix II , section 5 ) is an example of a physical credit ghetto , and depth-interview respondents in Finsbury ( London ) told us that their experience suggested that ‘ it has a bad name for credit ’ . |
| 8 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 9 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 10 | Shepherd phoned the police and taxis , but could not get help . |
| 11 | Supply flights had to be made at night ; the aircraft had no radar or proper navigation equipment , could not get information even about the weather , and had to find drop zones in thick jungle by the light or smoke of bonfires . |
| 12 | Then , due to the current troubles , they were taken away from them and offered to Gateshead , who agreed to take them but then could not get television coverage , so they went to Germany . |
| 13 | I find it extra-ordinary that the police could not get access to these files simply because it was 5.30 and the office was shut . |
| 14 | There was once a poor shoemaker who had three fine strong sons and two pretty daughters and a third , who could do nothing well , who shivered plates and tangled her spinning , who curdled milk , could not get butter to come , nor set a fire so that smoke did not pour into the room , a useless , hopeless , dreaming daughter , to whom her mother would often say that she should try to fend for herself in the wild wood , and then she would know the value of listening to advice , and of doing things properly . |
| 15 | On page 13 MARY BAILEY already has the cichlids — but if she could just get hold of a six foot tank … |
| 16 | If you could just get hold of say , the rainbow |
| 17 | George has asked if Pat could possibly get teaching or worship tapes for the Christians there as they are very short of any kind of material , especially the Filipinos who can not get anything from home . |
| 18 | But he could always get work in good old BBC radio : that was his stamping ground . |
| 19 | But if they needed it , they knew they could always get work with him . |
| 20 | Butchers are , on the whole , an ingenious breed , and they could probably get hold of some if you pressed them . |
| 21 | Now the reason that erm they , they were trying to promote the use of tampons was that one could n't get cotton to make cotton wool and so it was n't possible any , any erm er erm sanitary garments that were made of cotton were commandeered and used for people in essential war work or the armed forces . |
| 22 | Alternately loving and hating , Leith just could n't get Naylor out of her mind . |
| 23 | ‘ You could n't get board and lodging for £50 a year , but we 've heaps of room , and you could write to your heart 's content . |
| 24 | Dr. Marten shoes were most frequently seen on younger kids who could n't get hold of suedehead shoes . |
| 25 | The sort of secretary you could n't get hold of at Harris , Harris and Overdene . |
| 26 | I could n't get hold of Desmond Ingard , then I remembered Andrew Stavanger , whom , I must say , I trusted a good deal more . |
| 27 | But a wallet would contain all sorts of personal items which she could n't get hold of . |
| 28 | Because I could n't er i mean Chris was one minute he was on the phone , the next minute you could n't get hold of him . |
| 29 | Yes yes of co of course I was , but i could n't get hold of Dr and I thought well we 're gon na have to try it this way anyway at some stage . |
| 30 | could n't get hold of that actually . |