Example sentences of "not get [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I will not get into the gutter with that guy , ’ said their candidate , Eisenhower , who owed his wartime career to General Marshall 's promotion of him . |
| 2 | But do not get into the habit of morbid self-examination . |
| 3 | He said that dichloromethane , for instance , has a very short atmospheric lifetime , so it does not get into the stratosphere and cause the same problems as CFCs , carbon tetrachloride or 1,1,1-trichloroethane . |
| 4 | Carlton Palmer , who can not get into the Sheffield Wednesday side , came on , with Ince switching to right back . |
| 5 | Marathon runners finishing after 2 hours 45 minutes found that they could not get into the stadium after a 26 mile 385 yard slog in 90F temperatures . |
| 6 | When he lectured at Harvard in this year , policemen had to control the crowds who came out to see him , and loudspeakers were set up for those who could not get into the auditorium . |
| 7 | As I understand it , some hon. Members could not get into the House before the Division was completed . |
| 8 | Wayne never found his rhythm on his serve and he did not get into the match until he broke me at 5–3 , but I did good enough to win , ’ said the 24-year-old 1991 Wimbledon champion . |
| 9 | Clinical director Paul Lawler , who heads the intensive care unit at South Cleveland Hospital , Middlesbrough , said desperately ill patients were being turned away because they could not get into the unit . |
| 10 | Could not get into the army . |
| 11 | Junctions controlled by traffic lights do not go forward when the traffic lights are green unless there is room for you to clear the junction safely , never go forward when the red , amber lights are shown together , when traffic lights have a green arrow filter signal , do not get into the lane when filtering is allowed unless you . |
| 12 | In 1871 he took the yacht , Sampson , to Svalbard , to the Seven Islands , reaching latitude 81° 30' N. In 1872 he could not get beyond the north-west capes of Spitsbergen . |
| 13 | This fellowship does not of course embrace Rome ; in Pilgrim 's Progress , Christian encounters Giant Pope , old and biting his nails because he can not get at the pilgrims , and mumbling to them , ‘ You will never mend till more of you be burned . ’ |
| 14 | He does not get at the pain ‘ outwardly ’ ( by the use of hands , eyes , and so on ) , but ‘ inwardly ’ . |
| 15 | He thought that the question of involvement with the patient was quote , precisely what you do not get with the agency , they , meaning the agency , are professionals taking a professional , non-involved approach . |
| 16 | Mr Heseltine was asked on LBC radio whether , if the Conservatives ended up the largest party with , say , 320 seats , Mr Major would not get on the telephone to do a deal to secure an overall majority . |
| 17 | Only Carling of the three-quarters did not get on the scoresheet , ironic in that he had one of his finest games for England . |
| 18 | After all , this World Cup did not get on the road until two years before the event . |
| 19 | Yet pupils can not get on the wavelength of the experience of others by bracketing out all aspects of their own . |
| 20 | it might be — he was once again at the bench this weekend but did not get on the field this time . |
| 21 | Oh you can not get on the chair with your boots you |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I need crutches to get around the house and could not get to the concert , ’ she said . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | We did not get to the top of Helvellyn . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If the radio operator kept his mouth shut , the transgression might not get to the ears of his superiors . |
| 28 | ‘ When he serves like that you can not get to the ball , ’ said the Swede . |
| 29 | This debate between pluralist or behaviourist and radical/Marxist accounts of power in capitalist societies has been an important one in political sociology with Marxist writers such as Westergaard and Resler ( 1975 ) arguing that pluralist accounts did not get to the roots of the power of capital . |
| 30 | 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 . |