Example sentences of "[not/n't] get [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton . |
| 2 | Why , therefore , did congress not get on with the business of removing a patently guilty president ? |
| 3 | For the two women , Bumface 's dismissal merited no more than perfunctory laughter and a slight impatience with Charles for not getting on with the business of bottle opening . |
| 4 | In the absence of more detailed evidence we can only speculate whether the more vocationally , or instrumentally , motivated applicants are , the less willing they will be to consider other , alternative courses and institutions if they do not get on to the course they wanted . |
| 5 | He could not get on with the believing Jews from Eastern Europe whose religion and traditions he neither shared nor understood . |
| 6 | To provide an illustration , a child who gets into trouble is much more likely to come before a court if he or she is from a poor home and has parents who do not get on with the welfare authorities or the police , than if his or her family is prosperous , respectable and willing to co-operate with the police and social services . |
| 7 | Although you have found that you can not get on with the latch tool method of casting off , this too can become quite automatic once you have the knack . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | My advice to the Government is that they can not sort out the problem this side of a general election , so why not get on with the job of laying the long-term foundations for a successful economy ? |
| 10 | Consider , for instance , the following string , and see where implausibility enters : ‘ the text makes no response … the text evades the reader 's interrogation … the text is frequently silent … the text is idle and will not get up in the morning . ’ |
| 11 | The women , as usual , bore the brunt of it , for everyone stayed up late , children refused to go to bed at night and men would not get up in the morning . |
| 12 | Even if the phone was answered , the client might not get through to the person he wanted . |
| 13 | Is my hon. Friend worried — as I am — that the Bill will perhaps not get through to the next stage given the fact that this morning the Northern Region Councils Association — a Labour-dominated body — wrote to every Member of Parliament in the northern region asking them to be present for this important debate ? |
| 14 | If you have got yourself in this situation and can not get back to the beach , drop your sail and try and attract attention , by waving the fluorescent flag you should be carrying . |
| 15 | Some golfers are afraid to transfer the weight in case they can not get back to the ball at impact . |
| 16 | He said in a quiet voice : ‘ You 'll give me your word that what I tell you will not get back to the Josephs ? |
| 17 | Now I though he would have hysterics ; he could not get down on the ground quick enough to carry this action out . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was never happy all the time , but i could get no character and could not get out of the life . |
| 20 | As will be demonstrated with respect to Orientalism itself , Said can not get out of the Hegelian problematic that he articulates , and indeed tends himself to repeat the very processes that he criticizes . |
| 21 | Grasshoppers , scorpions , lizards , young birds in their nests , anything that can not get out of the way is attacked . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If he is that much of a wimp , why does he not get out of the road and let us take over ? |
| 24 | It was then he found he could not get out of the finance deal . |
| 25 | It is quite normal for the male to have to stay outside and drive his milt in with beats of his tail , because he can not get in through the reduced entrance . |
| 26 | Perhaps f just wanted to go back to find out why f had n't got on with the place when everyone else had ! |
| 27 | I asked him why he had n't got on with the other passengers . |
| 28 | Then she wonders why we have n't got on with the work . |
| 29 | Other medieval houses that are replicated medieval houses just have n't got on to the textiles in the way that we have . |
| 30 | So , but if you 'd like it on The Alchemist , and you feel you really have n't got through to The Alchemist , it 's here , okay ? |