Example sentences of "[not/n't] get [pers pn] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he explain to industralists why they should risk their long-term capital on economic forecasts from Ministers who can not get them right even three months ahead ? |
| 2 | Those who pin their hopes on highly specified , short range solutions may or may not get it right . |
| 3 | With Alice , she could not get it right . |
| 4 | I welcome both the inquiries that the right hon. Gentleman has so speedily set up , but may I advise him that , if we do not get it right this time , we shall be at the Dispatch Box again to consider still more cases ? |
| 5 | Yes , stool making , you know I 've got a stool here , I made that stool over there ages ago for me daughter-in-law and this one I can not get it right I 've , I 've , it 's , it 's , I 'm trying I 've got to undo it again there , it 's not right , I think it is because the cord 's too thick , it 's a very thick cord and I 've not got enough stitches you know not enough strands on it , but I 'm gon na do it , it 'll be done before Christmas I 've got to do it otherwise |
| 6 | Wait a minute cos I might not get it right , tell me a big number |
| 7 | But I ca n't get them right and he 's so disappointed . |
| 8 | they live in the , a beautiful house , a little house , old , very old and erm they always said there was a secret passage underneath and my , my uncle er used to er he used , he named , he named some locks , my uncle did a till lock and when I star began to work there er they were called Salmon Baits and er Mr said to me you know he said er it 's your un they used to call him Trot , my uncle , it 's your uncle Trot that named them and I said was it and it was a till lock and they could n't get them right er they were having trouble with these particular till locks , and er my uncle said to Mr when he went around they were having trouble and he said , all these locks all these things are good for a bait for Salmon and then they were called Salmon Bait and they were traded as Salmon Bait so |
| 9 | He says that th the communists have , have got have n't got the erm the reasons right for this and that they ne if they do n't get them right then they , they are going to , to , it will be bad for the revolution , they need |
| 10 | If they ca n't get it right in 13 years , they never will . |
| 11 | If the Conservatives ca n't get it right after 13 years , they never will . |
| 12 | But sometimes the skin does n't get it right . ’ |
| 13 | If we do n't get it right then developers will be very reluctant to integrate the technology ’ . |
| 14 | If we do n't get it right then developers will be very reluctant to integrate the technology ’ . |
| 15 | WITH REFERENCE to Zoë Heller 's column ( ‘ View from a Broad ’ , May ) , it occurred to me that if this guy ca n't get it right , then who the hell can ? |
| 16 | And other people other people think spelling should be changed but it 's not going to be and they 're still going to mark it one the exam if you do n't get it right . |
| 17 | If I do n't get it right . ’ |
| 18 | Because it 's affected the bone , once the bone is affected you ca n't get it right , cos the bone 's done . |
| 19 | Speaking after the election Greiner said that it was too early to assess " why I did n't get it right , and why almost no one in the community got it right " . |
| 20 | It 's critical to get it right because there are situations where if you do n't get it right then they have to hold some commission back and that 's a pity . |
| 21 | We got it there or thereabouts for sales executives right ? the area development exec job but we did n't get it right we were two grand adrift quite clearly demonstrable evidence that we were two grand adrift on that pay and I 've asked now to agree to upping the pay level and if he does we might get some decent people and then we worry about the ramifications of that afterwards , yeah ? |
| 22 | they 've got the comics , even if they do n't get it right they they 're they 'll have a go , whereas , this is why , this is why I usually teach with comics . |
| 23 | if the card is the instruction card , do you know what happens if you do n't get it right then ? |
| 24 | Mum 's still trying to do the butterfly but she ca n't get it right |