Example sentences of "not get to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some Allen 's West passengers who have hitherto caught the 16.29 from Middlesbrough tell me that they can not get to the station in time for its rescheduled departure at 16.21 . |
| 2 | A Guards officer who left recently told us : ‘ Blacks do not get to the depot . |
| 3 | If schools feel that the National Curriculum does not get to the heart of the matter , that it is a relatively superficial means to more important ends and has important omissions , then is it not up to the schools to work through the National Curriculum or add to it to secure their goals ? |
| 4 | The midfield can not get to the by-line to cross the ball . |
| 5 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 6 | ‘ When he serves like that you can not get to the ball , ’ said the Swede . |
| 7 | We did not get to the top of Helvellyn . |
| 8 | On the slopes of Everest there are believed to be at least a dozen bodies of climbers who could not get to the top , or could not get down again . |
| 9 | Access is also discussed in relation to those who can not get to the library — the housebound and the institution-bound , those who have limited mobility , and those whose behaviour is ‘ unorthodox ’ in some way . |
| 10 | Gibbs did so and Harvey went out to drive , but with his injured leg could not get to the pitch and holed out to Sobers . |
| 11 | He did not get to the end of the sentence . |
| 12 | I need crutches to get around the house and could not get to the concert , ’ she said . |
| 13 | ‘ Except that we wo n't get to the South of France now . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ She ca n't get to the Camp by going that way because of the Swamp . |
| 15 | They could n't get to the top ; there were too many cars . |
| 16 | On the first attempt we did n't get to the top . |
| 17 | Any character who does n't get to the top of the hill before the forest does is sucked into the trees , lost forever as one of the damned souls trapped in the translucent trunks . |
| 18 | But , if you ca n't get to the clinic , you could invest in her therapy kit . |
| 19 | No cos it , it was straightforward I think and does n't look to be too much wasted , you , you know they leave all that so I 'll just it a quick , a quick , really a very quick hoover but I ca n't get to the bit where the waste carpet is but er yes it looks nice I think . |
| 20 | Ca n't get to the pod , there are Gharrgoyles looking for me … |
| 21 | He still could n't get to the bottom of it . |
| 22 | But I 've never really known about the Slippery Elm stick , wh , er did n't get to the bottom of it , you know , what it was . |
| 23 | If I ca n't get to the person they want I try and say to them , ‘ Look , can you please ring back ’ , because if they left a message , that message would have been lying on my desk until the next morning , until I get round to actually phoning that person internally , saying this person rang . |
| 24 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 25 | ‘ It was so dark I could hardly see where to put my cross on the voting slip — and then I could n't get to the ballot box which was situated in a poky little office . |
| 26 | I just ca n't get to the reason why why you have th this criteria in . |
| 27 | But I did n't get to the point of giving them names , which was just as well , because in the end they both had to go to market . |
| 28 | If you do n't get to the end of it within a couple of days , come to me and I 'm sure I 've got somewhere on my old Mac . |
| 29 | and , cos I said to the dealers for a long time you know do n't put them under stairs , do n't put them in store rooms , they get locked , locked up with vacuum cleaners and you ca n't get to the gear when you go to them , do n't put them high up on the wall we ca n't reach them and they just laugh , but er , I think the last laugh 's on us now cos er if I see one high up on the wall , I say well that , I say we 're not accepting that , you have to move it |