Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] get [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AEEU 's regional officer , Alwyn Rowlands said workers are angry that they did not get a cost of living increase in April despite the company making a healthy profit . |
| 2 | If the new ministers took no action they would feel , perhaps with justice , that they did not get the quality of co-operation they were entitled to enjoy from their most senior staff . |
| 3 | They did n't get a single bird between them . ’ |
| 4 | If they did n't get a move on , I would miss my gig and lose vital cash — as I had n't come in my own car , I was stranded . |
| 5 | They got a five minute pep talk but they did n't get a sermon . |
| 6 | Perhaps you used to go and pawn the husbands suits or a anything like that till the following Saturday or Friday and fetch them out you see , and that cos there was very for people in them days , I mean they did n't get a deal of help from anywhere . |
| 7 | Right and they did n't get a license back to the second war . |
| 8 | They did n't get a hold , did n't get a start . |
| 9 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 10 | well they did n't get a a good income . |
| 11 | Some of the men had brought ropes and small axes with them so that , while they were in the forest , they could carry back a load of firewood rather than returning empty-handed if they did n't get the boar . |
| 12 | A lot of players would simply set-up and hit the ball directly at the flag , and them wonder why they did n't get the ball close . |
| 13 | They did n't get the information they needed , so they knew nothing about things like alternative positions during labour . ’ |
| 14 | A friend has just heard that they did n't get the job that they applied for . |
| 15 | Though they did n't get the credit for it , ‘ 1992 — The Love Album ’ was a determined effort to throw away the notions of a ‘ formularised ’ Carter sound . |
| 16 | When they did n't get the answers they wanted , they made up theories of their own . |
| 17 | They did n't get the job . |
| 18 | They did n't get the train to Moscow . |
| 19 | You know they did n't get the , you know , they 've gone too far now . |
| 20 | Er it is a good thing as a health thing because they , at home they did n't get the company . |
| 21 | They did n't get the 60,000 capacity crowd . |
| 22 | Of course they did n't get the portable with this , they rang them up , said where 's my colour portable said I 'll put you on to the manager anyway they had some deal that night that erm to launch this Mini Mayfair or whatever it was wine and cheese thing so he went to the wine and cheese thing and worried he was gon na kick up a fuss so they gave him a telly anyway . |
| 23 | yeah , but she they did n't get the one 's that , she could n't get the one 's that she wanted cos they did n't have enough |
| 24 | they do n't get no comeback , do you ? |
| 25 | If they have a job , they do n't get no grants . |
| 26 | After all , they 've won Olympic gold and they do n't get a penny for all this training six days a week . |
| 27 | Miners , aerospace workers , no one seems to be safe from the axe — except perhaps all these public servants who think that if they do n't get a hefty pay rise every year they are hard done by . |
| 28 | Erm you must have heard of the phrases of poncing , where somebody is operating a prostitute and if they do n't get a required amount of money a week or er er an amount of money where they consider it sufficient , they 'll probably go and beat them up or something like that . |
| 29 | Even then they do n't get a break , because they are woken suddenly at night and asked questions in some language they are not supposed to speak . |
| 30 | Erm my nan remembers him , was it somebody called , no no he was another character I think he sold newspapers , but erm I do , I do remember him er They 've always erm tried to get some entertainment on the pitch though prior to the matches to try and make it a family thing you know , I , I think Watford are the best club for that you know , because they , the supporters seem to take all the family along , as my son said when they went down there to the Cup replay they are very much a family sort , they do n't get a lot of trouble at Watford either . |