Example sentences of "[vb mod] n't get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must n't get too pissed , ’ she said . |
| 2 | I must n't get too excited , but I ca n't help it — I 'm going to be back home soon and everything 's going to be OK . |
| 3 | He must n't get too relaxed . |
| 4 | Still I 'm must n't get too political must I . |
| 5 | I say they should n't get away with that . |
| 6 | If a case clearly invites you to redesign a kitchen because the existing layout does n't conform to the food hygiene regulations and you miss this , then obviously you should n't get as many marks as someone who has spotted it . |
| 7 | Given the awesome sum of human misery in this part of the world , I suppose I should n't get too worked up about the fate of a flock of birds — particularly as the much larger eastern race of the Siberian crane , which migrates from north-eastern Yakutia to the lower reaches of the Yangtse river in China , is apparently surviving well . |
| 8 | I know I do n't need to tell you , but for the record , I will have to clear all this in Oxford and so we should n't get too far down the line . |
| 9 | ‘ Ludens , please do n't mind my saying this , I think you should n't get too involved with Dad 's theories . |
| 10 | He 's supposed to have high blood pressure and should n't get too excited . |
| 11 | I 'd just like to second that it was a good day and also to point out as the er man who made the postcards we should n't get too excited about this as a money making scheme . |
| 12 | I am not gon na move over and I am going at my own pace , so I slowed down to about twenty miles an hour and it 's a road about four miles long and er he just could n't get past , you know ? |
| 13 | Oh thes er there was oncoming traffic , just could n't get past and I thought , fuck it ! |
| 14 | I am doing work here I could n't get elsewhere . |
| 15 | The Ludicrous lads may lambast Carter for ‘ boldly going where we 've already been ’ on their new album , but another track , ‘ Bloody Proud ’ , bristles with blatant Fall references , including a riff suspiciously akin to ‘ Could n't Get Ahead ’ . |
| 16 | Eventually she found them but could n't get near — the crowds were as dense further up and , push as she might , she could not make a parting for herself . |
| 17 | We could see them , but we could n't get near because there was no wind . |
| 18 | But there was no point in staying , as he could n't get near enough to' overhear their conversation . |
| 19 | She could n't get near . |
| 20 | You can also be more experimental in a story , write in the person of a ghost or a cat , do things you could n't get away with in a novel . |
| 21 | I meant to be at the station , but these people came to look over the house and I could n't get away . ’ |
| 22 | It was the same thing , his sister then , his father now , Georgia walking towards a beating in the school yard , Dad fighting for breath in his red chair , he wanted to save them , only he could do it , who else was there , but he had n't , he could n't , not really , but the wanting to , the failure to , you could n't get away from that . |
| 23 | Unlike the suburbs , where no one of note — except H. G. Wells — had lived , here you could n't get away from VIPs . |
| 24 | Suddenly you could n't get away from him and his blooming career . |
| 25 | He could n't get away when I did , so I came up on my own . |
| 26 | ‘ She could n't get away . ’ |
| 27 | I just could n't get away from the police . |
| 28 | Literally thousands , jostling , shouting , swearing ; you could n't get away from them . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , I could n't get away from my job until Christmas Eve . |
| 30 | Maybe he could n't get away and , after all , he had been wonderful to her earlier . |