Example sentences of "not get [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They desperately need the improved genetics of UK stock for these breeds which they can not get elsewhere , ’ said an MLC spokesman .
2 The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position .
3 Many young people enter employment offering no training , and many more do not get even that .
4 He reminded me of the tight-lipped heroes in war films — the name and number ploy ; more you will not get even if you carve strips off me .
5 Priorities only seem useful when we can not get exactly what we want and we have to settle for second-best .
6 After a while a kitten is placed in a small , secure cage and left on the far side of a room , while the phobic is gently reassured that it can not get near .
7 ‘ You 'll not get near enough under his staff to use that , ’ he sneered .
8 In fact , it was sometimes so crowded that customers could not get near !
9 He said they did not get near enough to the 92-year-old Queen Mother 's third-floor room to pose a security risk .
10 The posts did not get nearer .
11 The musts An idea does not get past first base unless it meets the musts contained within the problem specification .
12 This explains why he is vulnerable to the ball which moves away from him because he can not get properly into line or lean into the ball .
13 Annual holiday camps are held for boys and girls from poorer families who otherwise would not get away , with costs paid by the RUC ; these are so popular that parents ring requesting that their children be allowed to go again .
14 They would not get away so lightly today .
15 You can not get away from it .
16 Since the English language has more than 40 phonemes , and we have only 26 letters with which to spell them , we can not get away from digraphs altogether .
17 Oxford led by nearly a length at Barnes Bridge , though they could not get away .
18 If you married that to your usual 1¼lb test-curve legering rod , you would not get away with it very often .
19 You will not get away with less than Dm300 for two in the evening , with wine on top .
20 Some made hazardous , roundabout trips to join the Pretender via the Orkney Islands and Norway , but the government 's vengeance on those who could not get away was relatively restrained .
21 The second type can not get away with anything , and must keep very precisely to a set number of calories , weighing and measuring food carefully , in order to shed weight .
22 However the Messerschmitts did not get away unscathed — indeed Fw .
23 I meant to leave work early on the day of the meeting but , as so often happens , I could not get away until late so , instead of the planned leisurely drive , I was home with barely enough time to squeeze my wife into the car before arriving hot and bothered at the meeting .
24 She 'll not get away ,
25 For instance , there have been occasions when I have tried to run bad ball and you just do not get away with that against good opposition .
26 But there was that unmistakable and disquieting reaction to the knocking on the door , and then the pointless deception which followed ; pointless , because he must have known he could not get away with it .
27 You can not get away from its vertical rise .
28 There was what has come to be called the inverted story , that is , a mystery which begins with the murderer being seen to commit the murder and in which the interest lies in seeing how he will not get away with it despite that apparent perfection of his method .
29 He shall not get away with it .
30 However , if the sun were to shrink until it was only a few miles across , the bending would be so great that light leaving the sun would not get away but would be dragged back by the sun 's gravitational field .
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