Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] get a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hilda , for her , simply represented another point of view , which she did not want to get a hearing . |
| 2 | Two important non runners there in the twelve fifty , number seven Far Senior and in the two o'clock number thirteen the I would n't say old timer but Panto Prince anyway shame he 's not going to get a run . |
| 3 | If the issue today in some people 's eyes is the need for this community in Greater York to be one hundred percent self sufficient then perhaps we really ought to go pack up and er go home , er because there 's no way that er a settlement that one could envisage in Greater York or perhaps anywhere else can be a hundred percent self sufficiency , self sufficient , you 're not going to get a shopping mall , you 'd be unlikely to get a a major touring theatre , so you can not aim for a hundred percent self sufficiency , you aim for what is appropriate for the size of the community and particularly its relationship to existing settlements er in the general area . |
| 4 | cos they think they 're not going to get a response I mean it , it , it ca n't get much er , ca n't get very much going on this . |
| 5 | He was not going to get a bike because he would n't be able to reach the pedals , but I would n't have said anything even if I could have , because nobody expects people to tell the truth to women and , besides , that 's what friends are for , as they say . |
| 6 | It was , though , and you 're going to have to learn to live with that fact , because you 're certainly not going to get a chance to put it right ! ’ |
| 7 | Like my dad — he really annoys me : when he 's watching ‘ Top of the Pops ’ , if a singer is a bit overweight he goes , ‘ She 's not going to get a hit , not with legs like that . ’ |
| 8 | but I mean even , even if we , if we get a date for next week Jane , we ca n't get in , cos I 'm not going to get a key and go in when she 's not there |
| 9 | probably be yards of material that , and you 've got six chairs so And you 'd have to buy it off the roll , you 're not going to get a piece a length at six yards are you ? |
| 10 | Your not going to get a cup of tea , I gon na drop it . |
| 11 | We 're not going to get a lot of serious bearing enquiries . |
| 12 | Right , you said that the reason is , there 's lack of information so , that 's why people migrate , because they do n't realize they 're not going to get a job . |
| 13 | And the counter-arguments to this is that there is n't lack of information , people know they 're not going to get a job , but they 're still better off to move , so that 's a rubbish theory . |
| 14 | " We 've told you we 're not going to get a wedding-dress for you , " Kate said . |
| 15 | This set Jean Powers off on a torrent of exclamations and denials so that Helen could not have got a word in had she wished to ; she stood and looked at Giles Carnaby and tried to be calm . |
| 16 | Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area . |
| 17 | Mr Thomson said Mr Wilson could not have got a bus to the area where he was found , which more than a mile from a road , and he could not have walked the distance on his own . |
| 18 | Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it . |
| 19 | Aggie still would not contemplate getting a mouser and when Harold raised the roof about the lethal traps she threw them out and blocked up the holes in the flooring and the wooden skirting-boards with old newspapers soaked in lavender water . |
| 20 | Two years later she still can not afford to get a divorce . |
| 21 | It was tricky , eating ice-cream with your arms linked , and she did n't want to get a stain on her new frock . |
| 22 | I am no expert on pickups but I do n't want to get a replacement if I can fix the existing one . |
| 23 | You do n't need to get a job , when you 're a mam . |
| 24 | Luke Calder was n't going to get a chance to disrupt all her plans for the future . |
| 25 | provided he knows when it is , I mean , and those who are n't going to get a County Council for much longer may as well er |
| 26 | You know perfectly well that under the present system someone who sticks to his principles and speaks out against injustice is n't going to get a job or a council flat . |
| 27 | I had n't bothered getting a Premiership card for this seasons away games . |
| 28 | We do n't oaten get a babysitter unless we want to go out together . |
| 29 | ‘ You just ca n't resist getting a dig in , can you ? ’ |
| 30 | Or do you want to go on your own so you do n't have to get a sitter ? |