Example sentences of "not get to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gibbs did so and Harvey went out to drive , but with his injured leg could not get to the pitch and holed out to Sobers . |
| 2 | I need crutches to get around the house and could not get to the concert , ’ she said . |
| 3 | If schools feel that the National Curriculum does not get to the heart of the matter , that it is a relatively superficial means to more important ends and has important omissions , then is it not up to the schools to work through the National Curriculum or add to it to secure their goals ? |
| 4 | We did not get to the top of Helvellyn . |
| 5 | Access is also discussed in relation to those who can not get to the library — the housebound and the institution-bound , those who have limited mobility , and those whose behaviour is ‘ unorthodox ’ in some way . |
| 6 | You always had something … extra … something I could not get to . |
| 7 | She still barred the way so the social workers could not get to her younger daughter . |
| 8 | The children could not get to school and the parents could not get to work . |
| 9 | If the radio operator kept his mouth shut , the transgression might not get to the ears of his superiors . |
| 10 | Keep an emery board handy in case of nail snags , so your teeth do not get to them first ! |
| 11 | They were often used for one or another of the Sheikh families , or for some accident victim who could not get to a specialist hospital in any other way . |
| 12 | Bruce Calvert-Toulmin , one of dozens of Britons at a campsite in Aubignan , said : ‘ I saw people trying to cling to trees 20 yards away but I could not get to them . |
| 13 | Others could not get to him for half an hour . |
| 14 | ‘ When he serves like that you can not get to the ball , ’ said the Swede . |
| 15 | This debate between pluralist or behaviourist and radical/Marxist accounts of power in capitalist societies has been an important one in political sociology with Marxist writers such as Westergaard and Resler ( 1975 ) arguing that pluralist accounts did not get to the roots of the power of capital . |
| 16 | On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again . |
| 17 | The ‘ WONDERS ’ shows provide ‘ a significant enhancement to the quality of life in the region ’ , says Mr Kyle , who notes that many people in the region can not get to New York , Chicago , Washington D.C. and other big cities that have important collections and major temporary shows on a regular basis . |
| 18 | If you can not get to a manicurist , the following hints will help you achieve a salon finish for yourself at home . |
| 19 | If you can not get to your own branch , you can withdraw between £ 100 and £200 in cash from HICA by presenting your Midland Auto Cheque Card , which must have been issued on a Current Account held at the same branch as your HICA . |
| 20 | A Guards officer who left recently told us : ‘ Blacks do not get to the depot . |
| 21 | He did not get to Hanoi . |
| 22 | If the patient has a defective visual word-recognition system which fails to identify frays , then the word can not get to the semantic system via the visual word-recognition system , so this , the usual route for reading comprehension , will fail . |
| 23 | I am saying this in a letter because I am sorry to say I can not get to the next liaison meeting . |
| 24 | He did not get to the end of the sentence . |
| 25 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 26 | The midfield can not get to the by-line to cross the ball . |
| 27 | ‘ Some Allen 's West passengers who have hitherto caught the 16.29 from Middlesbrough tell me that they can not get to the station in time for its rescheduled departure at 16.21 . |
| 28 | Shop owners had made numerous complaints that delivery lorries could not get to their premises , he said . |
| 29 | If you can not get to water , use any bland , cold liquid such as milk or lemonade to bathe the area . |
| 30 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |