Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area . |
| 2 | This set Jean Powers off on a torrent of exclamations and denials so that Helen could not have got a word in had she wished to ; she stood and looked at Giles Carnaby and tried to be calm . |
| 3 | Mr Thomson said Mr Wilson could not have got a bus to the area where he was found , which more than a mile from a road , and he could not have walked the distance on his own . |
| 4 | You could n't have got a baby-sitter ? ’ |
| 5 | They could n't afford to get a smithy made plough you see ? pucky poor in that times you know ? could n't afford to get one made . |
| 6 | Well it would have to be another bodge up ; she could n't afford to get a builder in . |
| 7 | Aggie still would not contemplate getting a mouser and when Harold raised the roof about the lethal traps she threw them out and blocked up the holes in the flooring and the wooden skirting-boards with old newspapers soaked in lavender water . |
| 8 | But you just had to do that sort of thing , I , we used to feel awfully sorry for the patients but you had , they had do it because they would n't have got a wash otherwise , there was so mu so much to do . |
| 9 | At least that way I would n't have got a note thanking me for a ‘ wonderful evening ’ that never happened . ’ |
| 10 | You ca n't help getting a nit or a dickie at school , but some of those town bairns are lousy . |
| 11 | ‘ You just ca n't resist getting a dig in , can you ? ’ |
| 12 | Ca n't seem to get a chance . |
| 13 | You wo n't have got a postcard yet . ’ |
| 14 | Two years later she still can not afford to get a divorce . |