Example sentences of "[not/n't] get [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 2 | But being able to mend the lift does not get you to the top in merchant banking . |
| 3 | You better not get it on the furniture as well , keep it away from the furniture , now put it on the paper or else do n't use it |
| 4 | The partner there was terribly embarrassed , rang me up and apologized for hours afterwards , could n't get him off the phone . |
| 5 | ‘ Bet you ca n't get them to the sink , Wattling . ’ |
| 6 | I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine |
| 7 | Erm in the early stages , I mean you 've got to go through all the ranks , you 've got to go through that physical side , even if you want to get on , there 's no direct promotion into the higher ranks so you 've got to go through it , every Chief Officer , every senior officer that you , you come across in the fire service , has started as a fireman and will start as a fireman on like er the forces where you get direct entry into the forces , you do n't get them in the Fire Service . |
| 8 | But I could n't get her to the doctor , she would n't go . |
| 9 | I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 10 | First off , I agree , that it seems we are trying to play too much football , there always seems to be one pass too many , it 's all very pretty , but it does n't get us behind the opposition defence and create chances . |
| 11 | The dragons could n't get you through the air-hole ; they could only get you if you put out a foot or a hand , or worst of all your head ; that was when they struck ; bit it off , or pulled you right out and ate all of you . ’ |
| 12 | my Lord report , paragraphs seven twelve and two eleven , erm refer to the competition rules and indeed explicitly excepts that a curtailing of some competition in this area is in , in , in his view at least and the reports view , a good thing to protect solvency , protect policy holders and again we simply said to that V D S , fine , yes it goes to exemption , but it does n't get you outside the competition rules . |
| 13 | It 's no use having a fantastic set if you ca n't get it into the building . |
| 14 | If they ask for some cheese , you wo n't get it on the meat counter will you ? |
| 15 | We did n't get it on the radio . |
| 16 | Because it 's a national thing I mean it 's something the company is hoping to go forward with the time it 's a government initiative , if we are offering trainee managers when they join us an , an N V Q and they do n't get it at the end of their training . |
| 17 | No you ca n't get it under the table . |
| 18 | It 's a Dulux but you ca n't get it from the shop . |
| 19 | You see they 're again there you do n't get it in a packet you can pick out the grapes you want . |
| 20 | I would n't have minded but I could n't get it in the hole after that . |
| 21 | You can find out about world events if you read a good newspaper , somebody said to me yesterday in class well we do n't get the news about these places , you do , you just do n't get it on the T V , it 's there in the Guardian every day , it 's there in the Independent every day , quite a lot of it gets reported in the Telegraph , but it 's no good if you 're reading the Mirror , you wo n't get it in there , you wo n't get it in the Mail or any other of those newspapers , the tabloids , but these things are happening , why would we be interested ? |
| 22 | Another accident we had with an a wardrobe two of my lads had which was a funny one in retrospect but I some when you carry a wardrobe , funnily enough , the easiest way often if you 've got a tight corner , you know as you go round a corner in a staircase you 'll come from a landing and often turn right or turn left to go down , if you put it at an angle like that then you wo n't get it round the corner without catching the bannister . |