Example sentences of "they [verb] not get [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , they did not get all that they wanted , but they will be back for more . |
| 2 | They did not get many phone calls and any other time she would have rushed out into the hall to see who it was . |
| 3 | But they did not get more help from community nurses and they were less likely to be admitted to , or to die in , a hospital or hospice . |
| 4 | One group swore that they did not get any salary , but took the job to attract men for prostitution ; and others went out of their way to prove their own sophistication by talking to them . |
| 5 | And one in three of the women said they did not get enough respect from male superiors . |
| 6 | The Security Council always tut-tutted when anybody suggested that it was trying to starve anybody to death , but if sanctions were going to be effective then people would die because they did not get enough to eat . |
| 7 | Under rubble in bomb-sites and they did n't get any nice flat stone with writing either . |
| 8 | Er , my brothers brothers er older than me who were indeed er boys working in the pit , they did n't get , they did n't get any relief , or er any income . |
| 9 | And at that time o' day they did n't get any wages . |
| 10 | But at busy occasions such as haytime , they did n't get any time to themselves at all . |
| 11 | Parapsychologists have always complained that they did n't get enough funding , Randi says , so this was an ideal opportunity to put them to the test . |
| 12 | You know , rather like getting an adverse smear test , and before you know where you are you 've convinced yourself you 've got cancer when it was probably just a lousy smear and they did n't get enough cells . |
| 13 | of the people who are at the end of a said they did n't get enough . |
| 14 | These shifts are 21 shorter than day shifts so they do n't get much holiday . |
| 15 | Former Pakistan captain Asif believes England could struggle to bowl India out twice in a match — ‘ They need the right bowlers on those Indian tracks , because they do n't get much assistance from the surface . |
| 16 | They do n't get much more out of it than they would from reading a James Bond paperback , but it makes them understand a few of the problems the field men face . |
| 17 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 18 | Well they do n't get that in here unless you 're higher up the scale like a tenter or something that 's , things like that . |
| 19 | However what we do n't want er our consultants to get in paranoid about if they do n't get that target . |
| 20 | They do n't get many twenty seven pound customers . |
| 21 | Very good , very , very good , no I think as I say the only thing I said to Mr I told him that I 'm very upset because I 've always been treated ever so fair by him I mean they 've really been good to us , you ca n't say they 're not , I mean no other Council I do n't think is as good as Harlow Council , well I say that because I know by my friends who live away they 're not er , they do n't get half the benefits that they get here , I mean we are looked after are n't we ? |
| 22 | And if tutors go on strike because they do n't get more money , it certainly wo n't be the students who notice . |
| 23 | If they do n't get more jobs they should open more jails . |
| 24 | ‘ Because they do n't get enough to eat , that 's why , and they 're always hungry . |
| 25 | ( Single woman living with her unmarried brother and their very frail elderly mother ) I do think that disabled people , unless they 've had a big cash payment through an accident [ compensation ] … they do n't get enough to live on … |
| 26 | Dr Stradling says that although snorers may appear to be sleeping sounding , in fact they do n't get enough proper rest . |
| 27 | Often carers complain that they do n't get enough support . |
| 28 | They complain they do n't get any information . |
| 29 | So they do n't get any frost on your argument . |
| 30 | No they do n't get any standard valves , but what I 'm saying is if there 's a clear indication that the trend is away in future direc generations from standard valves to remote valves . |