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Example sentences for "can get"

  • Oh, I can get it, if you've got to have it.

  • Stella, I'm mighty sorry; but if you'll help me, I can get on my feet again.

  • The only place where her children can get it now is in the school.

  • Our only hope is in another land--America--if we can get away.

  • Anyhow, there isn't a shepherd's hut within miles that he can get to without our knowing it.

  • I'll have to shoot a man yet, I see, as I've done before now, before I can get attended to.

  • It is not given us," said Flosi, "both to share and choose, we must take what we can get.

  • If we didn't want to sell it for the most we can get for it, we shouldn't do it.

  • We journeymen must take jobs when we can get them.

  • He asks a large sum; more than I can get together to pay him without having time.

  • Get some blocks, or bits of board, or stones, for me to walk on, so that I can get out of your nasty mess.

  • I can get a good many if Cephas gives me wholesale price, with family discount subtracted from that.

  • Now the weekly strain's off my shoulders, I can get to work in earnest.

  • Now the New Year, reviving last Year's Debt, The Thoughtful Fisher casteth wide his Net; So I with begging Dish and ready Tongue Assail all Men for all that I can get.

  • Yes, you're right to take your first chance when you can get it.

  • The Prefecture of police adjoins the Conciergerie, and the magistrates, like the Governor, knowing all the subterranean passages, can get to and fro with the greatest rapidity.

  • With seven hundred thousand francs you can get a good many drinks," said Jacques Collin, making his pal quite drunk with hope.

  • Well, perhaps we can get up a new style of carburetor that will do the trick.

  • Young woman, you owe me and Maggie all the comfort we can get out of you.

  • Tell Benson to have the carriage at the gate, just as soon as he can get it there.

  • But that means that I can't go to--that I will have to teach this winter, if I can get a city grade or a country school.

  • We will 'sugar' a tree and put a light beside it, if I can get stuff to make the preparation.

  • I have a few and I can get more by the thousand, with every colour in the world on their wings.

  • As soon as we can get as much as we want from the ship, we must decide whether we shall stay here or not.

  • It will be better, sir, if we can find time, as we shall not have much more fine weather now; at all events, we can get them in at intervals when the weather is fine.

  • Well, sir, you must not work too hard, there is no great hurry; William and I can get through a great deal together.

  • If I can get at her I doubt if her mother will know her again!

  • I'll come over to the 'Ship' as soon as I can get away," Conyers promised.

  • I shall walk down to the Admiralty and see if I can get hold of old Wilcock," he continued.

  • He wants me to l'ave a hundred thousand he has of mine until he sees whether he can get through or not.

  • I want to get enough now to clear away two hundred thousand dollars' worth of the outstanding warrants, and as much more as I can get later.

  • But I know where I can get some of that soap cheap.

  • I suppose we'll have to invite her; I don't see how we can get out of it.

  • I can get you a compartment here, sir,' observed the official, as the train began to slacken speed before Bishopstoke station.

  • I am afraid, unless you choose to discount it yourself, it may detain me a day or two till I can get it cashed.

  • I'm going to play polo next term, if I can get my granddad to stump up.

  • Of course, there's legal separation--we can get that.

  • I shall not expect this time more than I can get, or she can give.

  • We can get a job driving a grocer's wagon, or we can get swallowed up in the Vortex of Bohemia.

  • That is," I added, despairingly, "if I can get a cop to see you.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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