Example sentences of "do [adv] [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | From some remarks in Sir Alfred Ayer 's autobiography ( Part of my Life Vol. 1 , 1978 ) , it seems that the two met infrequently and perhaps did not altogether get on . |
| 2 | He did not immediately get out of the car but turned and looked at Sara . |
| 3 | Certainly the only reasonable explanation for some of these occurrences ( such as those of Peregrinella ) seems to be that the organisms concerned lived in very restricted environments that did not normally get preserved , though this hardly explains their sudden appearance without obvious ancestors , with a wide but discontinuous distribution . |
| 4 | Ursula Hutton , nee Cohn , did not even get a good night 's sleep before plunging into the realities of her new life with her foster family in Willesden : |
| 5 | It was a dismal , disorganized weekend and a waste of valuable opportunity ; everything was left to ‘ flow ’ , which in practice meant that many events did not even get off the ground . |
| 6 | The son did not even get chance to finish his prepared speech . |
| 7 | Many did not even get past their own wire defences . |
| 8 | Yesterday , two Norfolk men who kidnapped a prime suspect and took him for a ride were sent to prison for five years and apparently the suspect did not even get a police caution . |
| 9 | Method b ) home produced mailing lists , which was CPRE 's single most successful recruitment method between January and June 1992 , did not really get off the ground . |
| 10 | Method b ) home produced mailing lists , which was CPRE 's single most successful recruitment method between January and June 1992 , did not really get off the ground . |
| 11 | Harvey , nearly thirty years younger than Morris , did not really get the point , but with that courtesy for which the rising junior minister is rightly celebrated laughed generously in response . |
| 12 | His wife , Elizabeth , has told Mollie that they did not really get the view that it was coming their way until the next week ; but , in fact , it was . |
| 13 | It did not quite get here in time . |
| 14 | Because public expenditure was involved , the judges did not always get all the changes they wanted . |
| 15 | The military did not always get its own way but it was in a strong position . |
| 16 | In conventional costing systems , figures do not just get absorbed into the system never to be seen again ; they may release figures to go flying around the corporate universe , possibly causing considerable mischief . |
| 17 | In many remote rural areas , such deaths do not even get reported . |
| 18 | To worsen this travesty , the money is paid directly into an account in a bank so that employees do not even get their hands on it . |
| 19 | They see power as " structured " beyond and behind public participation in particular issues , and they point to another " face " of political power caught up in the fact that certain issues do not even get onto the public policy-making agenda for action and decision at all . |
| 20 | Some patients do not even get the chance of surgery because they have waited too long . |
| 21 | Reversion to order can occur ; systems do not necessarily get progressively more disordered as one goes further beyond a first instability . |
| 22 | Yet the Profitboss is not so naive as to believe that people do not occasionally betray trust , do not occasionally fiddle their expenses , do not occasionally get sloppy and hire unnecessary staff . |
| 23 | Inevitably they do not always get it right . |
| 24 | A recent Which ? report confirms that we do not always get a good deal from British sausages . |
| 25 | We did n't exactly get the bird but they just could n't handle it — they did n't know what sort of music we were playing . |
| 26 | ‘ I know you and Niall did n't exactly get off to a good start , but if it 's any consolation you caught him at a bad time . |
| 27 | THE launch of Middlesbrough yesterday as the country 's second environment city did n't exactly get off to a flying start . |
| 28 | So he had to stand there , in the office of the Roadworking Operatives Supervisor in the Islington Council Seven Sisters Road Highways Department Depot , sweating like a pig and wondering why they did n't just get on with it and sack him as he listened to Mr Smith and his eyes hurt and he could smell his own body-odour again . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't even get out of the car , ’ Graeme recalls , but he was amazed by what he saw . |
| 30 | They did n't even get a record deal . |