Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAMELA : Sir , when you consider that I had no prospect before me but dishonour , you will allow that I should have seemed very little in earnest in my profession of honesty not to endeavour to get away . |
| 2 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 3 | You do not want to get trapped by detail . |
| 4 | I am afraid it was because he did not want to get entangled with the left on such an emotional issue . ’ |
| 5 | You may not want to get up and run a race immediately after eating but you should not eat so much that you find it difficult to climb a flight of stairs . |
| 6 | I had a deep-seated feeling that the whole business of seances , trying to get in touch with spirits and souls who had ‘ passed on ’ was wrong and dangerous for me , and I did not want to get involved . |
| 7 | Among other quincentenary revelries you may or may not want to get involved in are : jousting at Hever Castle , Tudor music at Kenwood and a pageant at Hedingham Castle . |
| 8 | I do not want to get rid of him , so I was considering buying a 24″ × 24″ × 24″ tank for him alone . |
| 9 | But that time has not yet come and Orlan found that most of the surgeons she approached did not want to get involved with her ideas . |
| 10 | ‘ I only came here as a consultant and do not want to get deeply involved , ’ he insisted . |
| 11 | It also challenges my attitude to the more superficially respectable , whom we simply do not want to get on with , and strive earnestly to keep at arm 's length . |
| 12 | Taylor says he does not want to get involved in emotional situations — but football is about emotion , and it disappoints me that Taylor does not want to show his . |
| 13 | But because I do not want to get led off into a critical discussion of the issues , I want to keep this part of the book as clear as possible of content , and keep focusing on process . |
| 14 | I do not want to get bogged down in a semantic quibble but it does rather look as though sociologists have just as much difficulty as anyone else in doing without the word ‘ profession ’ . |
| 15 | It was founded by two former Everex executives , Raymond Yu , 33 as president , and Philip Lau , 35 , vice-president , as a design and manufacturing house to meet the needs of systems integrators and personal computer vendors that do not want to get involved in design and manufacturing . |
| 16 | Hi-Grade was originally on the list too , but pulled out due to ‘ a personality clash ’ , while Elonex Plc did not want to get involved . |
| 17 | But men do not want to get into demeaning details about how they help with the housework : few admit to doing the washing up . |
| 18 | The army has made it endlessly and publicly clear that it does not want to get involved . |
| 19 | Obviously one does not want to get involved in discussing individual cases , but I must make one exception and express the perplexity with which I read such drastically negative judgements on Zanardi 's work at Parma . |
| 20 | A reader could make a number of inferences about this passage : Mary is female , more probably an adult than a child ; It is morning ; Mary does not want to get up for some reason ; Mary is in bed ; she lives in a house with a refrigerator ; the house is possibly in North America , and so on . |
| 21 | She emphasised that she did not want to get better ; that there was no reason or motive for her to get better ; that she wished to remain in control ; that she would cure herself when she decided that it was right to do so . |
| 22 | She emphasised that she did not want to get better ; that there was no reason or motive for her to get better ; that she wished to remain in control ; that she would cure herself when she decided that it was right to do so . |
| 23 | And I think another reason why we do so well educationally is that the baby gives them a sense of direction and purpose and they may not want to get 16+ exams but they want to for their baby . |
| 24 | I do not want to get involved in the technicalities of such arguments but , for good or ill , the anthropomorphic style of sociobiological interpretation , together with its exaggerated insistence that virtually all patterns of animal behaviour ( including those found in man ) can be explained by evolutionary hypotheses , has lately served to reinforce and extend Darwin 's original Epicurean thesis that the difference between man and other animals is simply one of degree , that there is no natural discontinuity . |
| 25 | Of all the people you do not want to get mixed up with he is the first and the last . |
| 26 | Hilda , for her , simply represented another point of view , which she did not want to get a hearing . |
| 27 | In some areas the water was up to four feet high in places and for people who did not want to get wet the task of crossing this water was only possible by two ways , the first being to ask to hitch a lift in one of the high performance tractors which were out being a sort of taxi service and the second option was to catch a lift in either of the boats which also appeared to offer their services . |
| 28 | She wanted no thanks , no suspicious questions , and she most certainly did not want to get close to that hard , sensuous mouth . |
| 29 | I do not want to get bogged down in that subject as I want to press on and try to answer questions asked . |
| 30 | Although a minority have wanted and planned having a baby , most have not intended to get pregnant , at least not consciously . |