Example sentences of "[vb mod] not get [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not an absolute absurdity that that person should spend an extra week in prison and my elderly pensioner couple should not get compensation for the damage that they suffered as a result of the burglary ? |
| 2 | A reserve of justice remained with the King , and so those who could not get relief in the King 's ordinary courts might , with some hope of success , petition the King and his Council for redress , if not as a matter of right at least as a favour . |
| 3 | When they could not get money from the machine they beat her with sticks . |
| 4 | I ca n't remember the wages they paid us but we could n't get work in the shops anyway . |
| 5 | I could n't get CNN in the glorious Econo Lodge , but I wondered what had become of Arnett and Shaw and Holliman . |
| 6 | ‘ You see , we could n't get gigs in the city of Cork , so we used to play these places around the county . |
| 7 | We were sat in the North Bank ( could n't get tickets for the Leeds end ) , and in the second half we had a good view of the amount of space that the Arsenal forwards were getting , it was unbelievable . |
| 8 | We could n't get seats in the main tent . |
| 9 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 10 | You would n't get McQuaid to the house without whiskey . ’ |
| 11 | They ca n't get hold of the medical referee . |
| 12 | ‘ But I ca n't get hold of the mate in question . |
| 13 | If you ca n't get help with the cost of dental treatment |
| 14 | If you ca n't get help with the cost of wigs and fabric supports |
| 15 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
| 16 | She can not get a job without training and she can not get training from the Basildon authorities so as to make herself available for work . |
| 17 | This has an immediate effect on the workload at the CAB where claimants often go when they can not get satisfaction at the Department of Social Security . |