Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | From some remarks in Sir Alfred Ayer 's autobiography ( Part of my Life Vol. 1 , 1978 ) , it seems that the two met infrequently and perhaps did not altogether get on . |
| 2 | He did not immediately get out of the car but turned and looked at Sara . |
| 3 | Certainly the only reasonable explanation for some of these occurrences ( such as those of Peregrinella ) seems to be that the organisms concerned lived in very restricted environments that did not normally get preserved , though this hardly explains their sudden appearance without obvious ancestors , with a wide but discontinuous distribution . |
| 4 | Ursula Hutton , nee Cohn , did not even get a good night 's sleep before plunging into the realities of her new life with her foster family in Willesden : |
| 5 | It was a dismal , disorganized weekend and a waste of valuable opportunity ; everything was left to ‘ flow ’ , which in practice meant that many events did not even get off the ground . |
| 6 | The son did not even get chance to finish his prepared speech . |
| 7 | Many did not even get past their own wire defences . |
| 8 | Yesterday , two Norfolk men who kidnapped a prime suspect and took him for a ride were sent to prison for five years and apparently the suspect did not even get a police caution . |
| 9 | Method b ) home produced mailing lists , which was CPRE 's single most successful recruitment method between January and June 1992 , did not really get off the ground . |
| 10 | Method b ) home produced mailing lists , which was CPRE 's single most successful recruitment method between January and June 1992 , did not really get off the ground . |
| 11 | Harvey , nearly thirty years younger than Morris , did not really get the point , but with that courtesy for which the rising junior minister is rightly celebrated laughed generously in response . |
| 12 | His wife , Elizabeth , has told Mollie that they did not really get the view that it was coming their way until the next week ; but , in fact , it was . |
| 13 | It did not quite get here in time . |
| 14 | Because public expenditure was involved , the judges did not always get all the changes they wanted . |
| 15 | The military did not always get its own way but it was in a strong position . |
| 16 | In conventional costing systems , figures do not just get absorbed into the system never to be seen again ; they may release figures to go flying around the corporate universe , possibly causing considerable mischief . |
| 17 | In many remote rural areas , such deaths do not even get reported . |
| 18 | To worsen this travesty , the money is paid directly into an account in a bank so that employees do not even get their hands on it . |
| 19 | They see power as " structured " beyond and behind public participation in particular issues , and they point to another " face " of political power caught up in the fact that certain issues do not even get onto the public policy-making agenda for action and decision at all . |
| 20 | Some patients do not even get the chance of surgery because they have waited too long . |
| 21 | Reversion to order can occur ; systems do not necessarily get progressively more disordered as one goes further beyond a first instability . |
| 22 | Yet the Profitboss is not so naive as to believe that people do not occasionally betray trust , do not occasionally fiddle their expenses , do not occasionally get sloppy and hire unnecessary staff . |
| 23 | Inevitably they do not always get it right . |
| 24 | A recent Which ? report confirms that we do not always get a good deal from British sausages . |
| 25 | Traffic congestion caused by ‘ premature maintenance ’ can cost millions but does not always get reported in time PHOTOGRAPH : MARTIN ARGLES |
| 26 | This brings some benefits through musical cross-fertilisation between the cathedral and the wider community , but the cathedral does not always get the full benefit of one who is employed to do what is commonly regarded as a full-time job , and this at a time when the Church needs from its organists not only the highest musical expertise but also liturgical knowledge and a readiness to take some part in the running of the cathedral . |
| 27 | A spokesman for Stickley & Kent , one of the UK 's biggest repossession auctioneers said : ‘ We sold a couple of flats last month for Pounds 5,000 , but by and large anyone buying a repossessed home does not actually get a bargain . |
| 28 | Of course one does not often get shrinkage and swelling as gross as ten per cent but as little as one or two per cent can be sufficiently troublesome . |
| 29 | Lenin , who does not often get a kind word these days , was right in at least one of his prophecies . |