Example sentences of "[not/n't] get [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye so it 's Sharon 's turn to buy it , can , Elliott can not get cheap stuff from the , where Ian works ? |
| 2 | Women , who predominated in the junior schools , did not get equal pay in principle until 1955 ( or in reality until 1962 ) , despite a vigorous campaign throughout the 1940s , so yet further inequality was built in between groups of teachers . |
| 3 | We have tried different dates , e.g. early July Reunion Weekend/mid September — excuse clashes with holidays ; late October — we can not get overnight accommodation on Campus . |
| 4 | They did not get many phone calls and any other time she would have rushed out into the hall to see who it was . |
| 5 | Another northern head , requesting anonymity , voiced his outrage at Labour 's prejudice : ‘ I 've worked in comprehensives for 18 years and I know as well as anyone that you can not get good education for working-class children without quality teachers and adequate resources . |
| 6 | Another problem that the Home Office faces is the 3 per cent of listeners who can not get good reception from the networks as they stand at the moment . |
| 7 | The success of British exporters , which apparently does not get one word of congratulation or praise from the Labour party , gives the lie to what the hon. Gentleman has just said . |
| 8 | If we are to continue with a system of grants for specific operations on the land we must ask ourselves whether , in many crofting areas , we would not get better land use , and a greater benefit to the nation , if we grant-aided amenity planting on the in-bye land to improve the appearance of the villages . |
| 9 | Combined with our 450 local departure points , unique airport check-in service and expert guidance while on tour , you will not get better value for money . |
| 10 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 11 | But she will not get that distance until she learns to — that 's right — detach . |
| 12 | The North will not get that investment if certain influential people keeping banging on about how wonderful things are . |
| 13 | You will not get that information if you go on the continent . |
| 14 | and querying all the change , getting dirty looks , and I could not get that point out of the brain . |
| 15 | I could not get that figure of five hundred out of my mind . |
| 16 | Without that certificate , the charity can not obtain the repayment of the basic rate tax and the donor can not get higher rate relief . |
| 17 | But er er going beyond that , I think it would be wise for us to assume that we will not get paid time off for this even if we do attempt to disguise it as something else . |
| 18 | I , I think that we should assume that we would not get paid time . |
| 19 | The virus , whose main symptom is explosive diarrhoea , kills those who drink water mixed with sewage , are weak from disease or malnutrition , and do not get prompt care . |
| 20 | Of course , he did not get complete ownership for he did not buy the ring but the limited title he got was perfectly valid and he could enforce that against the jeweller . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , you 'll not get much welcome from that quarter , will you ? ’ |
| 22 | Another widow of 84 ‘ had outlived all her old friends ’ and did not get much support from her children . |
| 23 | In a window which does not get much light , a single , showy Boston fern will make a focal point . |
| 24 | Insp Butler 's hobbies are tracing family trees and watching cricket , although he admits nowadays he does not get much time for either . |
| 25 | One is dismayed to learn that 3,000 million do not get pure drinking water and so are too weak to undertake the work necessary to grow more food . |
| 26 | I can not get any help from Social Security or Rent Rebate . |
| 27 | In the original scheme a new occupier did not get any relief of this kind . |
| 28 | It proposes to do so three times , and those from whom the money would come would not get any benefit . |
| 29 | Even if a taxi service were provided to take his mother it would not help as there were no other Muslim women there and she would not get any stimulation . |
| 30 | One group swore that they did not get any salary , but took the job to attract men for prostitution ; and others went out of their way to prove their own sophistication by talking to them . |