Example sentences of "not get [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As two young married couples they had been close for a time when they lived near Stoke , although Carole had not got on at all well with Amaranth .
2 ‘ He 'd not got on at Didcot , though .
3 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 .
4 It 's not surprising , therefore , that with all this emphasis upon grading the members of this department have not got around to experimenting with self-assessment , although both felt they might try and introduce something along these lines for the next fourth year .
5 Interest had been so great that they had not got around to marketing the idea elsewhere .
6 ‘ Obviously the message has not got through to some parts of the organisation . ’
7 If we have not got through for what we need to er examine then the proposition is that we should reconvene at five thirty this evening .
8 Is it not time , though , to ask whether all this heady ferment over a mere conductor — Abbado or any other — has not got out of hand ?
9 Some perfect and well scarred nut slots protect a tricky move into the final groove , which is bridged pleasantly to the top , always assuming your rope drag has not got out of control .
10 ‘ I have not got back to my normal working routine , quite honestly .
11 He need not undergo terrorist treatment in the swimming bath , not get up at six o'clock every morning to feed old Bones .
12 Therese had explained the rule here that a girl must either accept to dance with everyone who asked her or not get up at all .
13 Why , therefore , did congress not get on with the business of removing a patently guilty president ?
14 I 'm happy if I can go up several flights of stairs and not get out of breath .
15 They slept it off , not getting up till around eleven next morning , Rufus in the principal guest room , Adam at the other end of the house in what he christened the Pincushion Room because it had a picture on the wall of St Sebastian stuck full of arrows .
16 No I do n't did one it did , you heard the little boy that 's not getting on at home dreadful
17 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 .
18 One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ?
19 All sorts of things seemed to flood in , including the fact that I was not getting on with one of my attendants .
20 ‘ The thing is , I 'm not getting on with Mum and Dad .
21 It 's holding both of us back ; we 're not getting on with our lives in the way that we should . ’
22 I 'm not getting through to you , am I ? ’
23 In Sarajevo , UN planes had already started landing at the airport before the formal announcement by the Bosnian capital that it would accept the aid , ending a protest mounted because UN relief was not getting through to 100,000 Muslims cut off by Serbs in eastern Bosnia .
24 I know that the message is getting through to gay men , but I 'm not surprised to hear that it 's not getting through to heterosexuals .
25 In most cases , however , it seemed that the questionnaire had not been returned because of pressure of work and ‘ simply not getting round to it ’ .
26 A group of young teenage girls once admitted to me that although they frequently complained because their parents insisted that they should be home by a certain time , they recognized that the deadline gave them a useful excuse for not getting out of their depth .
27 Hazel had impressed him mightily , seven years ago , in bed : by not getting out of it when he got into it … the office telephone rang many times that Monday , but none of the callers had anything to say about Offensive from Quasar 13 .
28 ‘ Oh God , ’ Caterina groaned , ‘ you 're not getting out of bed again .
29 Ah she 's not getting out of bed at all .
30 Therefore if you issue a licence like this the local authorities can check up , market people can god own and make sure it 's not getting out of hand and the local police know the sort of traffic to expect and therefore can control .
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