Example sentences of "[modal v] not get the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well , must n't get the hump … |
| 2 | So I think there is a lot of work to be done there , but as you rightly say , it has to be done carefully and one must n't get the dependency on calculators which one does see around one . |
| 3 | I should n't get the blame for something I did n't do . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It was a wasted trip , ’ he said , ‘ but there 's no reason why I should n't get the points score at Sheffield . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ So , ’ said Juliet , ‘ if Tunney or Richie Quick or whoever he is can be fooled by a designing woman in each of his adventures , I do n't see why you should n't get the dividend on his blind spot . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah , miles better , for the good of the country they 're not good for you , women should n't have the vote you know women should n't get the vote , I think they should bring back , bring back just men having vote , women do n't get a say as far as I 'm concerned that 's a good idea do n't you think ? |
| 7 | IBM is said to be late off the mark and may not get the chance to inject itself officially . |
| 8 | The national data on use of services by age may indeed not truly reflect needs of individuals at different ages ; there is , after all , evidence of rationing by age , so the elderly may not get the health care they need . |
| 9 | He says he 's worried patient with a bone injury may not get the care they need . |
| 10 | Then er even one percent of nuclear weaponry that er could be used is a danger to world congregation and I fear very much er that unless there is some kind of a proper cast iron guarantee er with the successor to the Soviet Union er there 's going to be much er trouble especially if er there is an ethnic violence er erupting on the borders and again er Boris Yeltsin has said that er , er he is going to want to control er the position on the borders , well he may not get the agreement that he seeks , er one hopes that he will , but he , he may not . |
| 11 | Anyway , so might not get the opportunity anyway , so it might not arise . |
| 12 | ‘ At 71 I might not get the chance to go again . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Come away , the pair of you , this 'll not get the work done . |
| 14 | But Sid Cornish , who was a serious atheist , could not get the sight of the two kneeling men out of his mind . |
| 15 | ( 2. spot ) contenders newcastle ( rain ) , norwich and blackburn did not play last night ( canaries vs blacburn postponed due to norwich' e-cup involvement ( lost 1–0 away to inter , just could not get the goal they needed even if they dominated ) . |
| 16 | His sheep were suffering from foot-rot , and however many ditches he dug , he could not get the water off his fields . |
| 17 | They could not get the strap she was clinging to out of her hand . |
| 18 | You may have driven the ball 50 yards downfield , you may have won six rucks in succession , but , on the seventh attempt , if you could not get the ball away , you lose it . |
| 19 | The only complaint from Sam Torrance after his par 72 for 146 was that he could not get the ball into the hole . |
| 20 | But it really started on Friday in the Stranmillis Theatre with the Ulster Youth Dance , who could not get the theatre at any other time for its Rite of Spring . |
| 21 | After he wrote the book he could not get the job because it was a Hoskynsish sort of book . |
| 22 | For many groups , public-pressure group activity was no sign of their power , but it was a testament to the frustrated powerlessness of those who could not get the ear of government , still less their positive action — no matter what they did or did not do . |
| 23 | She could not get the image of a yellow piqué dress crumpled on a white bed out of her mind . |
| 24 | Pushing the wheelbarrow should have been child 's play , but I still could not get the hang of it . |
| 25 | Though the menus make provision for it , I could not get the printout options to work on my particular hardware . |
| 26 | Ceauşescu was happy to meet this condition : for him , as for any true follower of Lenin , a trade union was ‘ a transmission belt of authority ’ ; if the union officials could not get the workers to meet their targets , failed to anticipate strikes , and then did not resolve them at once , what use were they to the regime ? |
| 27 | All the same , he found himself wondering about the strange animal and , almost as ii he was under some strange influence , he could not get the events out of his mind . |
| 28 | So even if they made a little , if they 've got the glass cutter , made a little round hole then reached , still could n't get the window open they 'd be forced to break the whole lot and make more noise . |
| 29 | Mr Paisley , the politics of Northern Ireland never far from his mind , joked : ‘ Her Majesty mentioned the rain ; I said that was why the grass was so green I could n't get the word orange in . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ What would you do if you could n't get the Land Rover back because of floods ? ’ he asked . |