Example sentences of "[vb mod] not get [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not an absolute absurdity that that person should spend an extra week in prison and my elderly pensioner couple should not get compensation for the damage that they suffered as a result of the burglary ? |
| 2 | Well , yes , we can complain about their performance and we may or may not get redress via their employers . |
| 3 | If the help of foreign governments was even suspected , the rebels might not get money from Congress . |
| 4 | Although many boatmen 's wives acted as crew they were not recognised as such and could not get compensation for injury or sick pay . |
| 5 | A reserve of justice remained with the King , and so those who could not get relief in the King 's ordinary courts might , with some hope of success , petition the King and his Council for redress , if not as a matter of right at least as a favour . |
| 6 | When they could not get money from the machine they beat her with sticks . |
| 7 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 8 | It could not get hold of me and stifle me ; for it would employ only my hands and a certain section of my knowledge ; the rest of me would be free : after office hours my escape would be absolute ; and then the holidays would enable me , according to my powers and my wishes , to live another life as different as that of Jekyll from that of Hyde . |
| 9 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 10 | I find it extra-ordinary that the police could not get access to these files simply because it was 5.30 and the office was shut . |
| 11 | Dr. Marten shoes were most frequently seen on younger kids who could n't get hold of suedehead shoes . |
| 12 | The sort of secretary you could n't get hold of at Harris , Harris and Overdene . |
| 13 | I could n't get hold of Desmond Ingard , then I remembered Andrew Stavanger , whom , I must say , I trusted a good deal more . |
| 14 | But a wallet would contain all sorts of personal items which she could n't get hold of . |
| 15 | Because I could n't er i mean Chris was one minute he was on the phone , the next minute you could n't get hold of him . |
| 16 | Yes yes of co of course I was , but i could n't get hold of Dr and I thought well we 're gon na have to try it this way anyway at some stage . |
| 17 | could n't get hold of that actually . |
| 18 | He went all over the place looking , but he could n't get hold of it I mean it was obviously it was something that he made himself but it was beautiful ! |
| 19 | I could n't get hold of him yesterday ! |
| 20 | Great run again by Mickey , did ever so well , came inside , knocked a good ball into , unfortunately he just could n't get hold of it and the goalkeeper came out and collected it . |
| 21 | ‘ I went from feeling useless because I could n't get work to feeling defiant . |
| 22 | I ca n't remember the wages they paid us but we could n't get work in the shops anyway . |
| 23 | Nature was blooming and burgeoning , but poor Karen could n't get gravid for love or money . |
| 24 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 25 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 26 | In some high crime areas you ca n't get cover without a lockable garage so you may have to rent one . |
| 27 | ‘ I know loads o' blokes who ca n't get work through their war wounds . |
| 28 | His age is against him and her ca n't get work in his previous field . |
| 29 | They ca n't get hold of the medical referee . |
| 30 | Tell 'em they ca n't get hold of me . |