Example sentences of "[noun sg] did [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | If on any of the pay-days , your employee did not get any pay ( for example , if wages had been paid in advance at holiday time ) , the ‘ blank weeks ’ are still included in the calculation . |
| 2 | The Pakistan Air Force did n't get them . |
| 3 | In a book generally very critical of Reagan , this comes as a rather surprising encomium to his effectiveness in office , although Stockman also makes it clear that the president did not get all that he had asked for in tax cuts . |
| 4 | I can well believe it , it 's a wonder your typewriter did n't get a hernia . |
| 5 | What happened was the the stuff did n't come in till quarter past four , the dust extraction did n't get done till after five , so we said , Right , from six this morning till they finish it , give me bags per hour and the run . |
| 6 | The Ilkley proposal did not get far , and the Worcester course , having been approved , later had validation withdrawn . |
| 7 | In the midst of the roaring debate about ‘ Black ’ as a political concept , and the work done towards eradicating racist practices in the organization , homosexuality did not get a look-in . |
| 8 | It 's a wonder that bloke did n't get lynched . . |
| 9 | There was one crippled young girl did not get out in time and had her hair and neck and face badly burned . |
| 10 | The Spraire Lads football team , good lads too , got £300 but the Darlington and District Council did n't get to much as a packet of bird seed , on the grounds that they had enough already . |
| 11 | Sally Tippett hopes they 'll provide the kind of help her husband did n't get . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Blyton Lad did n't get the best of runs when runner-up to Hamas in a Listed race at Newmarket three weeks ago , but is more effective over the minimum trip on a stiff track . |
| 14 | In fact the liquidator did not get paid until August 1989 . |
| 15 | However justifiable its aims , this American arm-twisting did not get far . |
| 16 | Murray was becoming increasingly flamboyant in style , which meant that his rages were fearful when the rest of the team did not get him what he wanted . |
| 17 | For some reason the ‘ Poet-Public-Faith ’ article did not get used ; but meanwhile Collingwood , whose acquaintance I had made , had received the advancement he amply deserved , and I wanted to write in The Criterion about his first lecture as Professor . |
| 18 | ‘ The secret was kept in the way most secrets are kept , which is to say that although the truth did not get out , something got out . |
| 19 | My aunt did n't get many letters from her , and those she did get were censored , but from the way Zdenka wrote , it was obvious that she was very hungry . |
| 20 | Er of course as I say , they er this was the ma the maternity bill I think was , would , would 've been my mother 's day more than mine you see because I mean then yo the woman did n't get the maternity allowance and |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps my father did n't get that plane , ’ I thought . |
| 22 | News did not get through to Innocent at the time of the preparations for the Fourth Crusade : sometimes the news might be deliberately withheld . |
| 23 | In parts of the West Country and the South , much of the land had been enclosed long before the fifteenth century , whereas in some of the northern counties the movement did not get under way until late in the sixteenth . |
| 24 | But er basically the message did n't get passed on to him when I left it er the last time and he then did the tour Monday not knowing that we could have been recording it because |
| 25 | In this sense they were internationalists , and are typical of the German unease with the nation state : ‘ German nationalism did not get a grip on a timely , feasible concept of the state . |
| 26 | wanted control on nuclear weapons , or wanted to abolish nuclear weapons but they the the Labour government did n't get in on that basis so they had to modify their and I mean as |
| 27 | The commentator did however get Rod ( God ? ) confused with his scummy bro . |
| 28 | Brymbo and Colwyn Bay did n't get a knock of any sort , their game being washed out after the torrential rain with both sides netting 10 consolation points . |
| 29 | ‘ Someone else who had auditioned for Genesis did n't get it , but actually recommended me . |
| 30 | I said to mum she need n't , mum did n't get none of the bleeding details . |