Example sentences of "could n't get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | Oh thes er there was oncoming traffic , just could n't get past and I thought , fuck it ! |
| 3 | I am doing work here I could n't get elsewhere . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We could see them , but we could n't get near because there was no wind . |
| 7 | But there was no point in staying , as he could n't get near enough to' overhear their conversation . |
| 8 | She could n't get near . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I meant to be at the station , but these people came to look over the house and I could n't get away . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Unlike the suburbs , where no one of note — except H. G. Wells — had lived , here you could n't get away from VIPs . |
| 13 | Suddenly you could n't get away from him and his blooming career . |
| 14 | He could n't get away when I did , so I came up on my own . |
| 15 | ‘ She could n't get away . ’ |
| 16 | I just could n't get away from the police . |
| 17 | Literally thousands , jostling , shouting , swearing ; you could n't get away from them . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , I could n't get away from my job until Christmas Eve . |
| 19 | Maybe he could n't get away and , after all , he had been wonderful to her earlier . |
| 20 | He was sensible enough to know he could n't get away with flip , funny conversation , trying to compete with the young . |
| 21 | Shelley felt her lip tremble , but she could n't get away now . |
| 22 | You could n't get away from them . |
| 23 | As a family we could n't get away from school quick enough to try and earn a bob or two for to help my mother . |
| 24 | Thirty yeah , could n't get away from it . |
| 25 | just a pity because Bil Billy could n't get away with that Jimmy |
| 26 | well I said I suppose Geoff could n't get away . |
| 27 | Could n't get away with three |
| 28 | You could n't get away with it . |
| 29 | I accepted their offer straight away and could n't get here quickly enough . |
| 30 | I could n't get here until now . ’ |