Example sentences of "could n't get out " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was the famous walk-out when he stormed off the podium and then could n't get out of the hall because all the doors were locked . |
| 2 | And I knew it was wrong , but I could n't get out of this tradition because of the difficulty of realizing the inner content of the music . |
| 3 | He skied his tee-shot and did n't hit enough club for his second , went in the front bunker and could n't get out . |
| 4 | It was ten to fifteen feet , it was getting dark , he had lost his board , and he could n't get in and he could n't get out . |
| 5 | Instead of making chances for his colleagues , the Scot , as predicted , could n't get out of the habit of making for goal himself , so the attack was stifled of passes . |
| 6 | This disconnection between aims and curricular plans seems to be an endemic disease of curricular planning and , unless amended , the National Curriculum will show that in the late twentieth century the policy makers still could n't get out of the rut of traditional thinking that has dogged education throughout this century . |
| 7 | I got cramp in my leg and I just could n't get out of the chair . |
| 8 | We were on the top flat , so I could n't get out to play ; my Ma was feared I 'd fall down the stone stairs and break my neck . |
| 9 | And there was no way of getting a message out to say I could n't get out , so she would be left hanging about waiting hopefully . |
| 10 | Angry neighbours could n't get out for two days . |
| 11 | The boy had got jammed and could n't get out . |
| 12 | We could n't get out of our houses for two days . ’ |
| 13 | When he came to about twenty minutes later he could n't get out . |
| 14 | The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out . |
| 15 | I 'd made it clear that by the time I reached sixteen I wanted out — I could n't get out any sooner because no school in London would have me . |
| 16 | I could n't get out to go and see the people and ask questions , see my solicitor or anything . |
| 17 | I could n't get out . |
| 18 | And er the gate end came in , that 's where the gate men And er we were trapped in there , there were three of us , and we could n't get out , and we were there ooh about twelve hours before they managed to get us out . |
| 19 | I went to work Monday and I could n't get out come downstairs for the week I was that stiff . |
| 20 | I could n't get out . |
| 21 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 22 | She could n't get out of the pit , but somebody knew she was there : her therapist gave her something of the same feeling but was far from being as much fun . |
| 23 | Two years ago I became very ill and could n't get out of bed or even a chair without help . |
| 24 | It was awful — we could n't get out of there quick enough ! |
| 25 | Julius must have wedged the chair in the hall under the handle , to make sure she could n't get out . |
| 26 | They brought their families , some of them intermarried with time-expired soldiers who chose to settle here , too , and it grew into a real , life-and-death town , where everyone had a stake sunk so deep that when the legions started to leave , the locals still could n't get out . |
| 27 | ‘ After I 'd fed the hens , I could n't get out — the sheep had penned me in . |
| 28 | I could n't get out quick enough . |
| 29 | Off she 's been at nights ; could n't get in quick enough and could n't get out quick enough . |
| 30 | She had burned from inside because she could n't get out of her mind the thought that Fernando was sleeping under the same roof , so close yet so far . |