Example sentences of "n't get a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Any solicitor will tell you , if you 're cohabiting and the man leaves you , you have n't got a leg to stand on .
2 Well , you deserve that , standin' by me like you did and givin' me your bed when I 'ad n't got a farthing to call me own .
3 During the 1960 campaign , the Kennedy entourage dodged the opposition 's charges about the disease , which was diagnosed two decades earlier by a London doctor who commented , ‘ He has n't got a year to live . ’
4 He has n't got a mum , he has n't got a home to go to .
5 And you have n't got a utility to do it , you just have to take it out and put it back on again ?
6 I have n't got a spoon to eat this with .
7 The reason that is disappearing is because they have n't got a purpose to get out of bed in the morning , exactly .
8 If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy .
9 Alternatively , we may say that the plates are so close to each other ( as it would be in a practical diode ) that the electron beam has n't got a chance to spread .
10 Yeah but he ca n't gi , so that means you ca n't go up cos you have n't got a chance to buy one .
11 Erm we 've got another session on Tuesday at ten o'clock so I have n't got a lot to say now .
12 Have n't got a lot to score anyway have you ?
13 Ai n't got a lot to score anyway have you ?
14 But she 's not , I 'm not saying she 's has n't got a lot to learn
15 He says she asked about the stresses of final exams , and they said they had n't got a job to go to anyway .
16 She should hate the day when she a , had n't got a job to go to !
17 Then the next one spoke was er one of the Yorkshire miners , one of these er that has n't got a job to back to .
18 You 've got an answer there , but I have n't got a book to take in have I ?
19 That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house .
20 That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house .
21 Terry , a heavily built man smoking a pipe , took it out of his mouth and said , ‘ We have n't got a basis to fire him . ’
22 We have n't got a right to treat
23 we have n't got a right to treat animals in this manner .
24 Erm , erm , apart from the meeting last week the last , last month , er one of our mem one of our members noticed that erm we had n't got a delegate to age concern and she volunteered , that 's a Mrs would you like to okay that cos the Chairman and I speaking to her thought well this was a good idea and I have forwarded her name to age concern who 've contact her .
25 I 've had books back to back , and , as a result , I do n't get a chance to do much else .
26 I 've had books back to back , and , as a result , I do n't get a chance to do much else .
27 ‘ I wo n't get a chance to do anything till much later , you understand that , do n't you ?
28 You wo n't get a chance to do that to Kirsty ! ’
29 look who 's doing the whole lot apparently he just had to do , he just had to model that , he did n't get a chance to do it properly
30 Once again Isabel did n't get a chance to argue , even if her brain had been working .
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