Example sentences of "[vb past] not get [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bodo did not get round to answering that question because , to another curse from Herr Nordern , the door opened again — only this time the frame was blocked by Frau Nordern , her pale face paler than usual , her hand at her throat , and her eyes wide and staring . |
| 2 | News did not get through to Innocent at the time of the preparations for the Fourth Crusade : sometimes the news might be deliberately withheld . |
| 3 | Earlier this year she persuaded a judge to let her stay with her boyfriend 's family because she did not get on with her father , who had recently been reconciled with his wife . |
| 4 | She was now unhappy living there , did not get on with the son 's girlfriend , and wanted her money back so she could live elsewhere . |
| 5 | Indeed , it is difficult to see how knowledge would advance if people did not get on with ‘ normal ’ work much of the time . |
| 6 | Can the Government be held to blame for such claims as this — a Turkish Cypriot claiming asylum on the basis that her mother did not get on with her husband and was trying to break up her marriage ? |
| 7 | But it did not deal with the reasons why people were poor ; it did not get down to the underlying needs of the sick , the disabled , the fatherless , and so on . |
| 8 | She did not get out of bed to look . |
| 9 | However it was , the one he had aimed at did not get out of the way in time and a last-minute attempt to slink off in the wind failed . |
| 10 | There was one crippled young girl did not get out in time and had her hair and neck and face badly burned . |
| 11 | Needless to say , he did not get back to her . |
| 12 | In August 1918 my father was recalled to London to report to the Foreign Office and he did not get back until mid-December . |
| 13 | ‘ Maybe she did n't get round to asking him much about himself yet , ’ Rose said just to break the brooding silence . |
| 14 | I 'm … er … afraid I did n't get round to doing anything for the understudies . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm so terribly sorry , Mr Jacobsen , ’ she returned , her voice dripping sarcasm , ‘ Cook did n't get round to baking any cookies today . |
| 16 | They did n't get round to it until 1954 when " Look " started . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't get round to putting them all in frames . |
| 18 | Er well it 's just I 'm ha it 's not that I 'm having more difficulty with one thing than another , it 's just that I have n't , I did n't get round to doing them . |
| 19 | I did n't get round to ringing Christine last night . |
| 20 | I just er did n't get round to it . |
| 21 | I did n't get round to it did I ? |
| 22 | I did n't get round to it . |
| 23 | I 'm sorry I did n't get round to doing it , but I did have the flu for quite a while . |
| 24 | It was obvious he was good , it was obvious he should be in FI , but somehow he dallied and twiddled and procrastinated and did n't get around to it seriously until he was thirty-six years old and then it took him only three years to become champion . |
| 25 | Somehow , Rob did n't get around to telling me where . |
| 26 | We did n't get around to any of that ‘ advice ’ you were going to give us but … ’ and they all laughed . |
| 27 | Dorothy , Birmingham West Midlands region , supporting composite thirty two , speaking without the support of my region , but only because we did n't get around to discussing it , but we will , we will . |
| 28 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 29 | Er , those who erm , those who did n't get through by the way , obviously er , er , a quick jot at lunch time before you troll down the road . |
| 30 | She says he was still up at quarter past and did n't get up for work until seven this morning , that 's what he said in note anyway , summat about he did n't fetch her a cup of tea up this morning cos he did n't get up till seven . |