Example sentences of "not get [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His computer ranking would not get him into a 42-man field . |
| 2 | And if one thing was certain , it was that she could not get him from here alone . |
| 3 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 4 | Determination alone does not get you through life , and these were becoming hard times for me . |
| 5 | But being able to mend the lift does not get you to the top in merchant banking . |
| 6 | Presentation may not get you plus points , but poor presentation gets the sort of result which reflects the lack of effort put into the tape . |
| 7 | er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times |
| 8 | They will not get it into their heads that what the military wants is military information , not the phone number of some general 's girlfriend . |
| 9 | He said he might sell it in Southampton if he could not get it on board . |
| 10 | You better not get it on the furniture as well , keep it away from the furniture , now put it on the paper or else do n't use it |
| 11 | Well Willy you 'll not get it without er working hard at school , that 's where it all starts . |
| 12 | A reporter , a correspondent , who sends in such a story does not get it from an official news-agency but from gossip — no doubt checked , reliable and trustworthy , simply marked by its lack of official confirmation . |
| 13 | Mr Hitchens said : ‘ We did not get it from the Labour party . ’ |
| 14 | Boys , he said , needed ‘ excitement ’ , and if they could not get it by legitimate ways then they would ‘ seek it in mischief and vice ’ . |
| 15 | ’ You mean they might not get us to Fraxilly ’ . |
| 16 | Jim ca n't get ours in it 's it 's all our garage is full of paper work and things |
| 17 | The partner there was terribly embarrassed , rang me up and apologized for hours afterwards , could n't get him off the phone . |
| 18 | I wanted Keith and we could n't get him for anything less . ’ |
| 19 | They did n't get him for that one ? |
| 20 | But even that did n't get him to Barcelona for the Olympics ' newest sport . |
| 21 | He 's wanted by some of the top clubs but they wo n't get him in the sales . |
| 22 | Although the book suggests my beavers should be aggressive , alas , try as I might , I ca n't get them to be anything less than overjoyed at the prospect of more delicious fish-eggs . |
| 23 | I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine |
| 24 | ‘ Bet you ca n't get them to the sink , Wattling . ’ |
| 25 | He comes home at 8am to snatch an hour 's snooze and then sets off on the bus for a full day 's preaching to the people whose failing legs ca n't get them to church . |
| 26 | He said oh no you do n't get them with cheques . |
| 27 | I did n't get them for that effort . ’ |
| 28 | I mean a , I 've been throwing mine away now we ca n't get them at the other farm , I mean and I said if we do , we 'd better keep |
| 29 | When when he has got when he 's got the time to go to , I do n't know where he gets them , he does n't get them at Marble Arch Marks I think . |
| 30 | You would n't get them at night college , because people who go to night school go because they want to learn , and if there 's any you 've got running around as you call it , will be thrown out ! |