Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] get [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 However , if you are committed to jumping a fence , they should not get in the way .
2 He concluded the scene by saying that we would soon be stopping at Newmarket , but that British owners should n't get off the train as they would find no races there .
3 The latest talks , which began with a meeting planned between the flight attendants union and management on Wednesday to discuss a new labour contract are not expected to produce firm proposals and the next bid for United Airlines may not get off the ground until well into 1990 .
4 If the radio operator kept his mouth shut , the transgression might not get to the ears of his superiors .
5 In fact , any argument directed against the applicability of the idea of identity to meanings is really self-stultifying , for such an argument would imply , among other things , that no topic could be significantly referred to as " the same " on two separate occasions , with the inevitable consequence that the argument itself could not get off the ground .
6 In 1871 he took the yacht , Sampson , to Svalbard , to the Seven Islands , reaching latitude 81° 30' N. In 1872 he could not get beyond the north-west capes of Spitsbergen .
7 I could not get over the kindness of it , his attention .
8 He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed .
9 I could not get over the fact that people were giving me the responsibility of telling them how to get me up , and that I could choose what time I went to bed !
10 Gibbs did so and Harvey went out to drive , but with his injured leg could not get to the pitch and holed out to Sobers .
11 I need crutches to get around the house and could not get to the concert , ’ she said .
12 On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again .
13 Marathon runners finishing after 2 hours 45 minutes found that they could not get into the stadium after a 26 mile 385 yard slog in 90F temperatures .
14 When he lectured at Harvard in this year , policemen had to control the crowds who came out to see him , and loudspeakers were set up for those who could not get into the auditorium .
15 As I understand it , some hon. Members could not get into the House before the Division was completed .
16 Clinical director Paul Lawler , who heads the intensive care unit at South Cleveland Hospital , Middlesbrough , said desperately ill patients were being turned away because they could not get into the unit .
17 Could not get into the army .
18 He has used a fast government car to shake off at least one photographer , but there is a more prosaic explanation for Mr Lamont 's perambulations around Blackpool — his civil servants could not get through the security around the Imperial .
19 Woodmill controlled the game for much of the first half but could not get through the Meridian defence and it was n't until two and a half minutes into the second half that the deadlock was finally broken .
20 Three cardiac arrest patients had to be flown to hospital by the North Wales police helicopter because ambulances could not get through the floods .
21 Sure Bangor 'd be crowded Easter Tuesday , you 'd not get in the
22 ‘ It was so dark I could hardly see where to put my cross on the voting slip — and then I could n't get to the ballot box which was situated in a poky little office .
23 They could n't get to the top ; there were too many cars .
24 He still could n't get to the bottom of it .
25 I could n't get to the first part again and yeah that 's right
26 And he volunteered to give a lift to anyone who could n't get to the annual general meeting in March .
27 Before , I could n't get down the High Street for bricks and houses , but they 're not there now .
28 It all came to a head the day a fire engine could n't get down the High Street for parked cars .
29 We shift them down to the so they could n't get onto the cultivated land .
30 Whatever he might do , he could n't get past the postmistress at Cong , who acts as operator , and runs the whole village .
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