Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAMELA : Sir , when you consider that I had no prospect before me but dishonour , you will allow that I should have seemed very little in earnest in my profession of honesty not to endeavour to get away . |
| 2 | She wanted no thanks , no suspicious questions , and she most certainly did not want to get close to that hard , sensuous mouth . |
| 3 | ‘ I only came here as a consultant and do not want to get deeply involved , ’ he insisted . |
| 4 | A collection of signed bindings can be a fine sight , but the collector must not expect to get away with it lightly . |
| 5 | They did not expect to get home , says the poet ; still , they went to sleep . |
| 6 | With direction targets it does not matter since we do not expect to get there . |
| 7 | The absence of all but a handful of examples in the biographical sources of this method of obtaining mevleviyets leads to the inference that someone obtaining a mevleviyet by this route could not expect to get much further in the hierarchy ; and indeed the provision itself , while not prohibiting the practice , does remove one of the principal prerogatives of the holders of mevleviyets . |
| 8 | But he 's not going to get away with it wherever he is . |
| 9 | You may well be upset , but you 're not going to get away with treating me like dirt . |
| 10 | because they do it to me so often so I 'm determined their not going to get away first . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're not going to get away with that ! ’ |
| 12 | He knew that he was feeling what Zen himself had felt often enough in the past , on one fateful occasion in particular : this time the bastards are not going to get away with it . |
| 13 | ‘ But Ken was making it very clear to me from the very beginning that I was not going to get away with anything , ’ Pertwee told me . |
| 14 | You 're not going to get away with that . |
| 15 | ‘ They 're not going to get away with this , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ She is a police officer and naturally in the light of her vocation she was determined he was not going to get away with it . |
| 17 | ‘ But I know I am not going to get as many goals as I do for England . |
| 18 | I do n't much care which , ’ said Fenella , who did not really want Caspar to ride off and leave her alone out here , but who was not going to get so close to Nuadu and then ride away and leave him . |
| 19 | As a vanguard , in spite of one or two sensational assassinations , it was not going to get very far unless and until it managed to co-ordinate widespread resistance to the French . |
| 20 | This one erm he sort of tried hard and put a lot in , thinks he should get full marks but he 's not going to get very much because he 's missed this , he 's not answering that properly |
| 21 | But if I do n't record it record when the television is on I 'm not going to get very much at all . |
| 22 | Having realised , I suspect , at least for the time being , that they are not going to get anywhere in their fight for equal prize money at Wimbledon or the French , the Women 's Tennis Association have come up with another proposal which I know has support in some areas but which I certainly hope will also bite the dust . |
| 23 | ‘ I was chasing around , getting petitions signed , writing letters , running round the schools and talking to parents , but I think if you do n't pressurize , you are not going to get anywhere , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Or even , when it was apparent that we were not going to get anywhere with the local government , the whole neighbourhood would get together on a Sunday to work putting in the drains or paving the streets . |
| 25 | ’ I 'm hurting too , but we 're not going to get anywhere sitting around moaning . ’ |
| 26 | If you do n't make an effort , you 're not going to get anywhere ’ , says Soliz , tired and hot under the bright sun . |
| 27 | But erm I du n no there 's some of them were n't prepared to carry on with it , you know these youngsters , there was a lot of 'em they would n't , anyway everybody 's not hundred percent you 're not going to get anywhere with anything . |
| 28 | But they 're not , they 're not going to get anywhere are they ? |
| 29 | He 's , he 's funny but it 's not , cos if Ryan 's , he 's not going to get anywhere , because he 's just a little shit , basically . |
| 30 | We are not going to get much out of former East Germany . |